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Home My WebLink About7.a. Assessment Policy CiTY OF ROSEMOUNT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACT10N CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: January 7, 1997 AGENDA ITEM: Assessment Policy , AGENDA SECTION: NEW BUSINESS PREPARED BY: Bud Osmundson AGfND�� City Engineer/Public Works Director ATTACHMENTS: APPROUED BY: Draft Assessment Polic G i VEN OUT AT Com. of Who I e At last night's Committee of the Whole meeting we discussed the draft assessment poiicy. At tonight's meeting I will hand out a modified assessment policy based on last night`s direction. Again this policy is for your consideration of adoption and if inclined to do so staff recomm�nds that it be adopted. If council desires major changes to the policy it will be brought back to the January 21 meeting for adoption. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Motion�to adopt tfie Special Assessment Policy. COUNCIL ACTION: 5 ._ _ __. . �.. T_ _ , ��...�: POLICY NO. E_3 SPf CIAL ASSESSMENT POLICY aooPTeo ev c�nr couNci� AN Januarv 7. 1997 L PURPOSE A. The purpose of this policy is to clarify and provide an equitabie assessment approach for assessments which `properties will pay for public improvements such as streets, sanitary sewer, water, storm drainage facilities, sidewalks, street)ights, and appurtenant facilities. 11. GENERAL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES I A. Within this document it should be emphasized that the following I summarization is general in nature and that certain circumstances may ', justify deviations from stated policy as determined by the City Council. B. In general, Minnesota Statues Chapter 429 regulates the procedure for , the construction and financing ofi Iocal improvement projects when at least part of the cost is defrayed by special assessments. Special assessments are collected frorn the property owner along with real estate taxes. When an improvement is of benefit to certain properties it is the intent of the Council that speciaE assessments be levied against those properties. C. Special assessments for improvements will not be offset or credited by Municipal State Aid Funding, Federal Funding, County funding, Minnesota Department of Transportation funding, Tax lncrement Financing, City Core Funding, or other similar #unding the City has the ability to obtain. It is the goal of this policy that each property pay an equitable assessment on each project no matter what other funding sources are available. D. It is the intent of this policy that new developments generally bear the cost of all the improvements within such properties so that no additional burden is placed on the general taxpayers. 1n many instances a development contract for new construction wilF inctude a petition and waiver agreement which will identify costs which the developer will be required to pay for improvements for projects identified in the City's Ten Year Capitol Improvement Plan adjacent or within the developing property. E. In reconstruction projects, the City utitizes a number of funding sources to insure that the improvement benefit to each property is an appropriate amount. Reconstruction projects include total reconstruction of s#reets and utilities and/or structurai overlays for street life extension. F. Projects may be petitioned or initiated by the City Council at any time during the year, but projects which are initiated after February 1 may not be scheduled for construction until the construction'season of the following year due to City bonding concerns. This scfieduling is at the total discretion of the City CounciL III. SPECIFIC POLICIES A. All construction shall follow the minimum design standards set forth by "The City of Rosemount Construction and Engineering Guidelines" and "The City of Rosemount General Specifications for Street and Utitity Construction" which will be periodically produced and published by the City Engineering Department. Generatly all sanitary sewer and potable water facilities will be designed and constructed per the most recently adopted standards of the Great Lakes-Upper Mississippi River Board of State Public Health and Environmental Managers. Generally these are know as the "Ten State Standards" and are published under the titles "Recommended Standards for Water 1Norks" and the "Recommended Standards for Waste Water Facilities". The City Construction Specifications reference both the Minnesota Department of Transportation Standard Specifications for Construction and the City Engineers Association of Minnesota'Standard Utilities Specifications. B. NEW CONSTRUCTION 1. Ail new construction shall be designed and constructed per the . City's adopted policy for "Puialic lnfrastructure Installation". Alf new developments shall have verbiage within the development contract which outlines any fees to be paid for by the developer such as trunk area charges and any trunk costs to be paid by the City. Many development contracts will also include a petition and waiver agreement whereby the developer agrees to pay for improvements which benefit the property, but may not be construeted with the initial phase of development. The amount payed is based on the property use and the average cost of the identified width of street based on the previous two year average of public improvement costs. 2. The development contract may provide details on construction and timing of local or lateral improvements of various nature for � 2 � i , . the benefit and improvement of the individual properties as required by the Gity Subdivision Ordinance or Code. 3. In new developments there may be core funding which is the responsibility of the City where the utility in question has benefit or provides service to properties outside of the specific development: The appropriate City core fund will be responsible for the costs of oversizing above and beyond the minimum sizing as described below. The developer will be responsible for al1 other costs within the development. a. Water Main - The minimum size will be 8" throughout alJ single family or multi-family properties. The minimum size will be 12" throughout all other zoning districfis. b. Sanitary Sewer - The core fund will be responsible for the oversizing or over depth cost only where the sewer can serve other properties and is greater than 8" in diameter or deeper than 20' in depth as measured over the top of the alignment of the sewer. c. Storm Drainage - The developer will be responsible for all storm water run off from the development to other properties. The developer is responsible for alh run off between the pre-development and post-development and for both a 10 year and 100 year event. The minirnum pipe size is 15" for core funding purposes. In this policy developers may not be eligible for oversizing costs for pond outlets due to the requirement that each developer is responsibte for that area's run off and the corresponding pond outlet. d. Streets - Generally oversizing for collector streets is paid , by the City onl if fundin is available and identified in the Y 9 10 year Capitoi Improvement Plan. If the developer is required to complete a collector street as part o# the development and the City does not have funding available the project may have to be delayed untit such funding is available. aa. In sin le famil , rural residential, or a ri`culturat II 9 Y 9 zoned areas the minimum street design width is 32 , • feet rneasured face of curb to face of the curb. ; 3 I bb. In multi-family and public areas (as determined by the city) the rninimum size is 38 feet wide. cc. In all other Zoning districts including commercial, indus#rial, business park the minimum size of street is 48' to 52' wide as determined by the city. 4. Sidewalks will be installed in existing developments conditioned on two items: a. That a petition sigrted by 100% of the property owners' whose property the sidewalk would cross has been submitted to the City. The petition shall state that the petitioners shall be responsible for 50% of the cost of sidewalk installation. b. The sidewalk location must be approved by the City CounciL C. RECONSTRUCTION, STRUCTURE OVERLAYS AND MAINTENANCE 1. Normally the City shalt utilize residentiat equivalent unit costs for reconstruction projects, but the City Council reserves the right to change the methodology of calculating those assessments when it feels it is appropriate. The properties assessed for reconstructions project are those properties which benefit by access (driveways) to that reconstruction project. 2. Total reconstruction projects: a. AU single family residential houses in R-1 Zoning areas shall be assessed amounts as described and set forth in the annual fee resolution as determined by the City Councif. The amount is based on the 1996 basis of 52000 per residential household for a street being reconstructed to City guidelines, including replacement of concrete curb and gutter. In certain instances, additions to this base amount at 50% of the cost of any new improvements such as concrete curb and gutter, street lights, or appurtenant work shalf be added to the base amount. b. In properties consisting of comrnercial, industrial, and business park, the minimum amount of assessments shall 4 be S5,000 for a minimum sized lot, plus 50% of the cost of any new improvements such as curb and gutter to the street, as mentioned above in 2a. c. Alt totally reconstructed utilities will be payed for by the appropriate City operating funds for laterals and core funds for oversizing. d. It shall be the responsibility of the property owner to pay the entire cost of the replacement of services from the right of way line to the structure. 3. Structural overlays shali be assessed at 35% of the total project cost to the benefiting property owners. 4. Preventative maintenance items such as cracksealing, patching, and sealcoating will be paid for in their entirety by City operatin� funds. 5