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I I ! I I I I I I I I I I I I CASE REPORT ON INFORMATIONAL MEETING HELD BISON STREET PAVING PROJECT By: Steve Jankowski, City Engineer ON Background: Upon direction of Council at the last meeting, an informational meeting between the City Staff and the residents of the Bison Street N.W. area was held on Wednesday, August 18, 1993. As you may recall, a number of feasibility studies were prepared during 1993 which identified benefitted parties and estimated the assessments which would be applied to those benefitted parties. Included as benefitted parties in the 1993 feasibility studies, as well as in earlier studies, were lots within the Dellwood Hills subdivision. However, upon reviewing the Dellwood Hills development agreement, the City agreed that no additional monies beyond the $9,434 placed in escrow could be assessed to any of the lots in the Dellwood subdivision. Thus the feasibility studies prepared were inconsistent with this previous agreement. With the lack of Dellwood Hills lots contributing additional monies toward the paving of Bison Street N.W., the resulting individual assessments would exceed $6,000. All the residents in attendance were in agreement that this amount represented too high of a burden for the improvement of paving. Records show that individual assessments on similar street paving projects between 1980 and the present generally have ranged between $2,300 and $3,300, with the highest assessment during that period being $4,200. There was generally a consensus that if the project assessments fell within the range of those previous assessments, [assuming a cost escalator for time] the paving project would be supported by the residents. It was agreed that a new feasibility should be prepared that would propose a limit on the amount of the project to be assessed, with the additional project cost being financed by the City. It was noted that the City Council would need to consider the f'mancial impact of such a modification in policy relative to the other remaining din streets within the City that still require paving. An estimate of that impact and a public hearing on the new feasibility study was tentatively scheduled for late September. Discussion also occurred on the traffic volumes and street configuration for the south end of Bison Street N.W. Meeting notes and a list of participants are attached to this case. Council Action: No action required. Reviewed by: Copies also distributed to: I I City Engineer CC: 08/24/93 City Administrator Finance Officer Public Works Supervisor City Attorney I