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RESOLUTION NO. 96-210
A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE ASSESSMENT POLICY
STATEMENT OF THE CITY OF STILLWATER
WHEREAS, the City of Stillwater has adopted an Assessment Policy Statement as of the
4th of May, 1993, setting forth a policy intended to provide an fair and equitable manner of
recovery and distributing the cost of public improvements; and,
WHEREAS, effective on the 16th day of August, 1996, the City has entered into an
Orderly Annexation Agreement between the City and the Town of Stillwater relating to an area
designated for Orderly Annexation; and,
WHEREAS, Section 6 of the Orderly Annexation Agreement requires the City to amend
its Assessment Policy with regard to areas that will be annexed to the City that have not
requested annexation and had not present plans to subdivide their property and area not
requesting municipal services.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Stillwater Assessment Policy
for Local Improvement as adopted on May 4, 1993, is hereby amended to include Section 6 of
the Orderly Annexation Agreement as set forth in the attached Exhibit "A" and the Policy set
forth in the attached Policy for the Orderly Annexation Agreement will control over any
inconsistent provision of the initial policy.
Enacted by the City Council of the City of Stillwater this 20th day of August, 1996
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Morli eldon, Its Clerk
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SECTION SIX
ASSESSMENT A!.~"D tJTILlTY POUCY
6.01 Concurrent with the adoption of this "Joint Resolution" I the City Council will adopt
an assessment policy that will protect new City property owners who are neither
subdividing their property nor requesting municipal services from special assessments
and utility charges for sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water and street upgrading. The
policy shall be as follows:
a. Except as set forth in Section 6.04, no property will be assessed for sanitary
sewer or required to pay sanicary sewer hook-up or utility charges if the property is
not connected. to public sanitary sewer.
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b. Except as set forth in Section 6.04, no property will be assessed for municipal
water or required to pay water hook-up or utility charges if the property is not
connected to the municipal water system.
c. No property will be assessed for storm. water improvements or required to pay
storm water hook-up or utility charges prior to subdivision of the property.
dO. Any property which hooks-up to City sanitary sewer shall pay a hook-up
charge which will not exceed Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00). The S2~OO
limit shall be inclusive of all trunk: or core facilities, laterals and other public COSts
associated with the installation of and hook-up to the system.
e. Any property which hooks-up to City municipal water system shall pay a
hook-up charge which will not exceed Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars (S2,5oo.oo).
The $2,500 limit shall be inclusive or all trttn.k: or core facilities, laterals and other
public COSts associated with the installation or and hook-up to the system.
f. Property which is not being subdivided will not be assessed for the cost of
street improvements n~..essitated by development occurring within the orderly
annexation area. However, if the street is subsrandard at the time of the
improvement. the property may be assessed an amount equal to the assessment that
would have been levied by the -rown, if any, under the Town assessment policy in
effect prior to the annexation of Phase One. The property may be subject to
additional deferred assessmentS payable if and when the property is subdivided.
"Substandard" is determined by Township standards in effect prior to the annexation
of Phase I.
g. If a property hooks up to City sewer or water it will be charged for one hook-
up as per Section 6.01 d and e regardless of whether the property can be further
subdivided. Additional hook-up charges will be due at the time the property is
subdivided based upon the hook-up charges in effect at that time.
6.02
Concurrenc with the City's adopcion of this "Joine Resolution~. the City will adopt a
sanitary sewer and wacer hook-up policy which includes the following provisions
relating to property within the orderly annexadon area:
a. Prior to subdivision of the property. no property owner will be required to
hook-up to the City's municipal water system.
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b. Prior to subdivision of the property, no property owner will be required to
hook-up to the City's sanitary sewer system unless hook-up is mandated by State
Stattlte or Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) regulation and enforcement
action isinitiaced. A property owner will be permitted to upgrade or replace a failing
system in accordance with MPCA srnndards. The City ordinance will not impose
regulations that arc more stringent than those required by the MPCA.
6.03 This section does not require the City, if requested to by a Property Owner, to extend
sanitary sewer service to property which ~a failed on-site system if the extension is
not feasible or cost effective. ..
6.04 The benefits and limitations set forth. in this Section do not apply nor are they for the
benefit of owners who subdivide their property.
6.05 The limitations in Sections 0:-01' dimd e will be annnatly adjusted commencing
January 1. 1997 based upon the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers. (CP-U).
EXHIBIT "A" Pa e 2 of 2