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4.8 Permits Permits that are anticipated to be required as part of the proposed improvements include: • Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA): Sanitary Sewer Extension • Minnesota Department of Health (MDH): Watermain Extension • MPCA General Stormwater Permit: Grading and Storm Water • Lower Rum River Watershed Management Organization (LRRWMO) Grading and Storm Water 4.9 Right-of-Ways/Easements It is anticipated that the City will need to acquire additional permanent right-of-way, easements, and/or entire parcels for this project. Costs for right-of-way or easement acquisitions are included in the probable project costs in Appendix B. Property values are based on conversations with property owners and county -assessed values. Actual appraisals will need to be performed to determine final property values. City Staff will work with private property owners as needed to obtain any required right of entries. 5. FINANCING 5.1 Opinion of Cost A detailed opinion of probable costs for the proposed improvements can be found in Appendix B of this report. The opinion of probable costs incorporates anticipated 2023 construction costs for the proposed improvements with 10-percent contingency costs and projected property acquisition costs. 5.2 Funding 5.2.1 Assessments If City Staff recommend the use of special assessments, the City's adopted Special Assessments Policy allows special assessments to be levied against all benefitting properties in an amount not to exceed 25% of eligible street reconstruction costs. Eligible costs include costs required to reconstruct the street at its current width, and to reconstruct the pavement without increasing its structural capacity. Benefitting properties are defined as any developable parcel that has, or has the ability to create, one or more direct accesses onto the segment of 146th Avenue, 147th Avenue or Ferret Street being reconstructed. State Statute and the City Charter do not allow for assessments to exceed benefit to the property. Therefore, Staff would want to ensure all assessments applied with this project would not exceed the benefit to assessed properties. Therefore, if special assessments are utilized, Staff recommends ordering a benefit appraisal consultation report for this project in accordance with the City's Special Assessments Policy at the time a construction contract is awarded. Feasibility Report Update West Armstrong Area Street Reconstruction City of Ramsey Project No. 18-02 Page 9