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RESOLUTION NO.: 2000-12
CITY OF OTSEGO
COUNTY OF WRIGHT, MINNESOTA
A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO INCLUDE THE PARCEL
TO BE PLATTED AS RANCH ACRES WITHIN THE SANITARY SEWER SERVICE
DISTRICT AND DESIGNATE SUCH LANDS FOR LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL LAND
USE.
WHEREAS, the property in question ("the property") is legally described by
attached Exhibit A; and,
WHEREAS, the property is within the Urban Service Area Reserve established by
the 1998 Comprehensive Plan Update; and,
WHEREAS, the City has received a request from Rick Grupa for approval of a
preliminary plat entitled Ranch Acres for development of the property with six single family
residential lots uses to be served by the City's sanitary sewer services; and
WHEREAS, the developer has requested a Comprehensive Plan amendment to
expand the Sanitary Sewer Service District to include the property; and,
WHEREAS, the 1998 Comprehensive Plan Update outlines specific criteria that
must be satisfied for the Planning Commission and City Council to expand the Sanitary
Sewer Service District as follows:
a. Land to be included in the sanitary sewer service district is not "green acred" or
enrolled in an agricultural preservation program.
b. The land lies within one-quarter mile of the existing sanitary sewer service district
boundary or presents environmental problems that can be alleviated by the delivery
of City water and sewer service.
C. The land is located within the designated urban service area reserve.
d. The potential sewer discharge of the land area to be included is within available
capacity limits.
e. The developer shall hold the City harmless should limitations on sewer hookups be
imposed.
The developer and/or benefitting property owners assume the significant majority
of improvement/service costs.
g. The land does not qualify as a premature development or subdivision as regulated
by the City's Subdivision Ordinance.
h. Inclusion of the land in the sanitary sewer service district is necessary to achieve
a five year supply and respond to a shortage of land to which service is available.
Commercial/industrial development and requests for service to existing, unsevered
residential areas shall be given priority over new residential development for
service district expansion requests.
WHEREAS, the planning report dated 14 March 2000 and addendum report dated
13 June 2000 prepared by the City Planner, Northwest Associated Consultants, Inc., is
incorporated herein; and,
WHEREAS, the letter dated 14 March 2000 prepared by the City Engineer,
Hakanson Anderson Assoc., Inc., is incorporated herein; and,
WHEREAS, the Otsego Planning Commission conducted a public hearing, at their
regular meeting on March 20, 2000, to consider the request, preceded by published and
mailed notice, and, upon reviewof the application and evidence received closed the public
hearing and subsequently tabled the application until the provision of sanitary sewer to
the area was resolved with the City of Dayton; and,
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission again considered the application at their
meeting on June 19, 2000 based upon previous evidence and new information that the
sanitary sewer extension project will proceed, and recommended by a 7-0 vote that the
City Council approve the amendment of the 1998 Comprehensive Plan Update to include
the property within the Sanitary Sewer Service District and designate it for low density
residential land use, based upon a finding that the amendment is consistent criteria
established by the Comprehensive Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
OTSEGO THAT; the request to amend the 1998 Comprehensive Plan Update to include
the property within the Sanitary Sewer Service District and designate it for low density
residential land use is hereby APPROVED based upon a finding that the action is
consistent with the following policy of the 1998 Comprehensive Plan Update:
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Amendments to the Sanitary Sewer Service District boundary shall be
evaluated and allowed only in compliance with established City evaluation
criteria. (Policy Plan, p. 44)
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Otsego this 26th Day of June 2000.
CITY OF OTSEGO
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BY:
Larry FOOKIer,Mayor
Clerk.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF:
PID #118-500-364400
Commencing at the Northweet Corner of Section 6, Township 120 North, Range 22 ?West;
thence North 1250.0 feet; thence East 543.0 feet to the West line of Richardson
Avenue; thence South and parallel with the above mentioned line distant 988.0 feet
to the Northwesterly shore of the Crow River, thence Southwesterly along northwesterly
shore of Crow River to a point which is 374.0 feet East of place of beginning; thence
',Jest 374.0 feet to place of beginning, except therefrom the following:
That part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 36, Township
121, Range 23, Tdright County, Minnesota described as follows: Coeznencing at the
northwest corner of Section 6, Township 1201, Range 22; thence northerly, along a line,
a distance of 734.66 feet, said line if extended northerly would pass through a point
which is 1250.00 feet north of the point of beginning and 543.00 feet west of the
west line of Richardson Avenue; thence east, parallel with the south line of the South-
east Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 36, along a line hereinafter referred
to as Line "A", a distance of 380.44 feet to the actual point of beginning; thence south-
erly, deflecting right 78°04'41" a distance of 535 feet, more or less, to the Crow River;
thence northeasterly, along said Crow River, a distance of 35 feet, more or less, to
the west line of Richardson Avenue; thence north, along said west line, a distance of
502 feet, more or l9ss, to the easterly extension of the aforesaid Line A; thence west-
erly, along said easterly extension, a distance of 150.05 feet to the point of beginning,
containing 1.0 acres, more or less.