Agenda - Public Works Committee - 02/18/2020

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Drive and Puma Street. The parcel, which is outside of the Metro Urban Service Area, is identified as County Parcel #20-32-25-31-0002. At the present time AKM is not intending to pursue any development plans nor incur any additional engineering design expenses on this parcel until after such time that the MUSA and zoning is approved. AKM is not in agreement with the cost share proposal as presently proposed for the street improvements, as well as the cost share proposal for the development of plans and specifications. Under the present plan AKM is being assigned costs for a portion of land at the proposed realignment of Puma Street (north end) that is not directly adjacent to our land and we are not agreeable to this. The land encompassing the proposed realignment route is owned by the City of Ramsey and is not under contract by AKM Farm, LLC. AKM may have a future interest in the property but it is not essential to the future development of our 30.5 +/- acres. Regarding the portion of Puma Street that is directly adjacent to our property, we do not agree with the ability to assess these street improvements as a 429 project since our parcel doesn’t gain direct benefits as a result. Any lots on our parcel would back up to Puma Street (i.e. not have direct access) and our property subdivision could be designed with all public street access from Alpine Drive via two access points. Also, the collector street improvements of Puma Street serve a much wider area other than just the two adjacent residential/future residential properties. Puma serves as the secondary access to the entire business park; without a Puma Street connection to Alpine Drive the entire business park is on a single ¾ mile long dead end street. We are not in opposition to the proposed improvements, but we are opposed to the cost distribution as proposed. Thank you for your time and consideration. Jay Roos (763)753-6176 x450 2850 Cutters Grove Ave.; Suite 207 Anoka, MN 55303 www.paxmar.com | From: Tim Gladhill <tgladhill@ci.ramsey.mn.us> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:30 PM Cc: Chloe McGuire Brigl; Bruce Westby; Kurt Ulrich; Diana Lund Subject: Puma Street Assessment This message has been copied to Paxmar and Capstone Homes. All: Our design engineer on the project provided clarification today on the project costs. The Trunk Water and Sanitary Sewer estimated costs are $230,000 to be paid by the City’s Trunk Water and Sanitary Sewer Accounts (paid for by Developer Trunk Fees). The remaining costs (road, storm, trail and lighting) result in $760,000. This is the amount that we would proposed to split three ways ($253,333 each). Please let me know if you have any additional questions. We will be presenting this information next week at the 2/11 Joint Work Session in concept, with a more detailed review at the 2/18 Public Works Committee. Sincerely,