Item 3.3 2021 WSD capacity3601 Thurston Avenue
Anoka, MN 55303
763.231.5840
TPC@PlanningCo.com
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Otsego Planning Commission
FROM: D.Daniel Licht, AICP
DATE: 15 July 2021
RE: Otsego – Utilities; W‐WWTF Capacity
TPC FILE:101.01
BACKGROUND
City staff has established that there are less than Residential Equivalent Connections (RECs)
remaining to be allocated from the existing capacity of the W‐WWTF based on approved
preliminary plats and is monitoring potential developments that may absorb the remaining
available capacity. The City Council has initiated the process to expand treatment capacity at
the West Wastewater Treatment Facility (W‐WWTF) based on the recommendations of the
Waste Water Master Plan. The capacity expansion is expected to be substantially complete by
2024.
The City is experiencing a period of high demand for sewer utility capacity to serve potential
commercial and industrial development within the West Sewer District, as well as on‐going
residential development. So as to have capacity available for any commercial or industrial uses
within the West Sewer District, City staff is recommended to the City Council Administrative
Subcommittee a policy reserving capacity for commercial industrial uses within the West Sewer
District such uses until such time as additional capacity at the W‐WWTF comes on‐line. A
public hearing to consider the proposed policy has been noticed for the Planning Commission
meeting on 15 November 2021.
Exhibits:
Future Land Use Plan
Immediately Available Sewer map
Draft resolution
Item 3.3
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ANALYSIS
City staff estimates that the available capacity within the W‐WWTF less approved preliminary
plats is 132 RECs. All of the developments that are preliminary platted but not yet final platted
are residential land uses. There are additional areas within the West Sewer District guided for
residential land uses, primarily in the form of single family dwellings to which sewer (and water)
utilities are immediately available as well as land and sewer capacity withing the East Sewer
District for future residential uses. City staff is concerned that the current rate of residential
development may absorb all of the remaining capacity within the W‐WWTF before the capacity
expansion is complete if additional preliminary plat applications are approved.
The City also has areas within the West Sewer District guided for commercial and industrial uses
consistent with its economic development goals to expand employment opportunities and
increase tax base. Trunk sewer utilities are available near Kadler Avenue to provide service to
potential industrial development and at CSAH 19 to provide service to potential commercial
development. Industrial and commercial development is more site selective than residential
development. Allocation of all of the remaining capacity of the W‐WWTF for residential
subdivisions within the West Sewer District would limit the City’s ability to accommodate
potential development of industrial or commercial uses.
The Comprehensive Plan establishes policies that the City is to balance land use development
between residential and commercial and industrial uses. The Comprehensive Plan and
Subdivision Ordinance also include policies and criteria that require that the City has adequate
service capacity to accommodate a proposed development as a condition of approval. To this
end, City staff is recommending that the City Council establish an interim policy that 100 RECs
within the remaining capacity of the W‐WWTF be reserved for industrial and commercial land
uses.
This policy would remain in effect at least until the City has certainty for the timing of additional
capacity at the W‐WWTF being online. Depending on the timing of construction of the W‐
WWTF expansion, the City could begin to consider residential plats during 2023 in the
expectation that a final plat would not be approved until 2024 and construction of streets and
utilities within the subdivision would ensure the need for sewer service coincides with
availability of additional W‐WWTF capacity.
The proposed interim policy would not allow for preliminary plat applications at the point when
the available capacity within the W‐WWTF has been reduced by preliminary plats to 100 RECs,
allowing City staff to communicate to developers that future subdivision requests would not be
approved. Approved preliminary plats would be allowed to continue to final plat. If a
developer did go forward and submit a preliminary plat application, City staff would prepare
recommendations that the request be denied based on the Zoning Map amendment and
premature subdivision criteria established by the Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Ordinance,
respectively.
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RECOMMENDATION
City staff recommends adoption of the resolution allocating capacity at the W‐WWF as
presented.
POSSIBLE ACTION
A. Motion to recommend City Council adoption of a Resolution establishing an interim
policy allocating capacity from the W‐WWTF.
B. Motion to table.
c. Adam Flaherty, City Administrator/Finance Director
Audra Etzel, City Clerk
Ron Wagner, City Engineer
Kurt Neidermeier, Utility Operations Manager
David Kendall, City Attorney
Scott Schafer, AE2S
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CITY OF OTSEGO
COUNTY OF WRIGHT
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO: 2021‐XX
INTERIM POLICY ALLOCATING CAPACITY FROM THE WEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY
WHEREAS, the 2012 Otsego Comprehensive Plan establishes a West Sewer District where urban land uses
are planned to develop serviced by municipal sewer utilities;
WHEREAS, the City operates the West Waste Water Treatment Facility (W‐WWTF) to provide sewer
treatment for the land uses developed within the West Sewer District; and
WHEREAS, the City Council on 22 January 2018 adopted Resolution 2018‐06 approving a Waste Water Master
Plan to guide the operation, maintenance, and future expansion of the W‐WWTF; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has initiated an expansion of capacity for the W‐WWTF to provide sewer
utilities to meet projected demand in accordance with the Sewer Treatment Master Plan; and
WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the current remaining capacity of the W‐WWTF not allocated to
approved final plats is less than 500 Residential Equivalent Connections (RECs) and that the remaining
capacity considering the number of RECs required to serve approved preliminary plat is 132 RECs; and
WHEREAS, the City is experiencing a period of high demand for sewer utility capacity to serve proposed
residential, commercial, and industrial development within the West Sewer District; and,
WHEREAS, the 2012 Otsego Comprehensive Plan establishes the following policies to guide land use decision
making within Otsego:
Promote commercial and industrial development in order to create more employment
opportunities and strengthen the tax base within Otsego.
Encourage provision of a balanced variety of development types to satisfy the needs, desires and
income levels of all people while preventing an oversupply of any one type of development.
Establish growth control mechanisms that allow specific annual levels of residential development
that can be accommodated in a fiscally responsible manner based on existing service capacities.
WHEREAS, based on the current capacity of the W‐WWTF to provide sewer utilities to new development
within the West Sewer District, the City Council finds it is necessary to establish a reserve of remaining RECs
for commercial or industrial land uses in accordance with the policies of the 2021 Otsego Comprehensive Plan
cited herein.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OTSEGO, MINNESOTA THAT:
1. A minimum of one hundred (100) RECs of the capacity of the W‐WWTF shall be reserved to be
allocated for commercial or industrial land uses.
2. Development applications for a Zoning Map amendment to allow a residential land use guided by
the Future Land Use plan of the 2012 Comprehensive Plan requiring connection to municipal sewer
utilities may be denied on the basis of not being consistent with the policies of the Comprehensive
Plan and cannot be accommodated by the City’s existing service capacity, thus not satisfying the
criteria established by Section 11‐3‐2.F of the Zoning Ordinance.
3. Applications for preliminary plat approval for a residential land use requiring municipal sewer utilities
may be denied by the City Council as being deemed premature due to lack of capacity of the W‐
WWTF in accordance with Section10‐6‐1.B.4.a of the Subdivision Ordinance.
4. The reservation of capacity for commercial or industrial uses or preliminary plated commercial and
industrial lots shall remain in effect until such time as the current expansion of the W‐WWTF is
deemed to be substantially complete by the City Council or until the City Council takes such action to
amend this policy.
ADOPTED by the Otsego City Council this ____ day of __________, 2021.
MOTION BY:
SECONDED BY:
IN FAVOR:
OPPOSED:
CITY OF OTSEGO
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Jessica L. Stockamp, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Audra Etzel, City Clerk
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EastWest
120 Acres
850 Acres
940 Acres
860 Acres
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FUTURE LAND USE00.5 10.25
Miles
LEGEND
Planning Districts
Rural
Rural Residential
LD Residential (Large Lot)
LD Residential
LD/MD Residential
MD/HD Residential
Commercial
Office
Industrial
Public/Quasi Public
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TPC
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2012
ADOPTED: 10 December 2012
AMENDMENTS:Resolution 2015-64 adopted 26 October 2015Resolution 2017-20 adopted 13 March 2017Resolution 2018-49 adopted 23 July 2018Resolution 2018-81 adopted 10 December 2018