05-04RESOLUTION NO: 2005-04
CITY OF OTSEGO
WRIGHT COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION AFFIRMING AND EXPANDING UPON DEVELOPMENT
POLICIES FOR NEW RESIDENTIAL GROWTH WITHIN EAST AND WEST
SANITARY SEWER DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF OTSEGO.
WHEREAS, on 22 November 2004 the City adopted an updated
comprehensive plan; and,
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan establishes goals, policies and
programs to provide direction, guidance and growth management for on-going
development of the City; and,
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan establishes, in part, the following
polices based on the goal that expansion of urban uses shall occur on a staged
basis providing for a logical extension of related community services in a fiscally
responsible manner.
Boundary limits for urban expansion shall be clearly
delineated and expanded in a staged manner such that
urban uses be prohibited from prematurely encroaching into
rural areas.
2. Promote infill development and follow an orderly
development pattern for urban expansion that capitalizes on
in place utility and service investment.
3. Discourage urban development of parcels not contiguous to
existing development that expand the City's service delivery
areas and create scattered nodes of development.
4. Promote commercial and industrial development in order to
create more employment opportunities and strengthen the
tax base within Otsego.
5. Thirty (30) percent of available waste water treatment plant
capacity within each sewer service district shall be reserved
for commercial and industrial development.
6. 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.
7. A maximum Five year [land] supply for urban residential
development shall be provided in the sanitary sewer service
district based upon City estimated demand.
8. The City shall plan its utility service and street extensions to
accommodate long term growth and urban expansion in the
community.
9. Prevent premature subdivisions in areas that lack adequate
infrastructure such as utilities, streets or parrs.
10. Require infrastructure improvements associated with new
development to be financed by those creating the need for
the improvements, except as may be identified by the City's
improvement plans.
11. Final plats shall be limited to development that will occur
within two years of City approval.
12. The City shall require financial securities to insure
performances on plats to provide an incentive for timely
development.
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan, in part, establishes an interim land
use plan to provide criteria for evaluation of applications to allow development of
those uses guided by the Future Land Use Plan, requiring those making the
request to demonstrate:
1. Consistency with Comprehensive Plan: A proposed
development shall be consistent with the goals, policies and
recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan and which
follow planned public improvement corridors or constitute an
infilling of development shall be deemed consistent with the
City's growth strategies as outlined in the Comprehensive
Plan.
2. Adequate Waste Disposal Systems: A proposed
development shall be deemed to have adequate waste
disposal systems if within the sanitary sewer service district,
there is adequate sewer capacity in the present system to
support the proposed development if constructed to its
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maximum permissible density after reasonable sewer
capacity is reserved for planned public facilities and
commercial and industrial development projected for the
next five (5) years, or if in areas outside of the sanitary
sewer service district, there is adequate on-site sewer
capacity potential to support the development if constructed
to the maximum permissible density indicated in the Otsego
Comprehensive Plan.
3. Adequate Water Supply. A proposed development shall be
deemed to have an adequate water supply if the proposed
development has adequate sources of water, either from
public systems or private wells, to serve the proposed
development if constructed to its maximum permissible
density without causing an unreasonable depreciation of
existing water supplies for surrounding areas.
4. Adequate Drainage: A condition of adequate drainage shall
exist if -
a. Surface or subsurface water retention and runoff is
such that it does not constitute a danger to the
structural security of structures within the proposed
development.
b. Structures within the proposed development will not
result in pollution of water sources from erosion and
siltation.
C. The proposed development and related site grading
will not cause harmful and irreparable damage from
erosion and siltation on downhill or downstream land.
d. Factors to be considered in making these
determinations may include: average rainfall for the
area, the relation of the land to the floodplain; the
nature of soils and subsoils and their ability to
adequately support surface water runoff and waste
disposal systems, the slope of the land and its effect
on effluents, and the presence of streams as related
to effluent disposal.
5. Adequate Streets: A proposed development shall be
deemed to have adequate streets to serve the development
when:
a. Streets that serve the proposed development are of
such a width, grade, stability, vertical and horizontal
alignment, site distance and surface condition that an
increase in traffic volume generated by the proposed
development will not create a hazard to public safety
and general welfare, not aggravate an already
hazardous condition, and when, with due regard to
the advice of Wright County and/or the Minnesota
Department of Transportation, said streets are
appropriate for the intended use.
b. The traffic volume generated by the proposed
development would not create unreasonable
congestion or unsafe conditions on streets existing at
the time of the application or proposed for completion
within the next two (2) years.
6. Adequate Public Service Capacity. A proposed
development shall be determined to have necessary public
service capacity when recreational facilities, police
protection, fire protection and other public facilities that must
be provided at public expenses can reasonably be provided
for within the next two (2) years.
7. Consistency with Capital Improvement Plans: A proposed
development shall be deemed consistent with capital
improvement plans when improvements and/or services
necessary to accommodate the proposed subdivision have
been programmed in the Otsego, Wright County or other
regional capital improvement plans or that a revision to
capital improvement programs can be accommodated.
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan establishes a goal that not more than
an average of four hundred (400) building permits for new residential dwelling units
be issued annually within the east and west sewer districts combined and that the
City will periodically define the amount of new development that can be
accommodated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT on-going development in
the City of Otsego shall be guided, directed and managed in accordance with the
goals and polices of the Comprehensive Plan and the following additional
stipulations:
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The approximate supply of approved preliminary platted lots not final platted
within the east and west sanitary sewer service district shall not exceed one
hundred (100) percent of available waste water treatment capacity
designated for residential use within each sewer district, respectively.
2. Potential developers within the east and west sewer district shall submit a
phasing plan with each preliminary plat application outlining the anticipated
build -out of a proposed subdivision. The phasing plan is subject to approval
of the City Council, its schedule shall be made a condition of preliminary plat
approval, and it shall be incorporated as part of the terms and conditions of a
development contract executed for the initial final plat of a phased
development.
3. Approval of a preliminary plat shall not guarantee access to sanitary sewer
service. Allocation of waste water treatment capacity shall be issued on a
first come, first serve basis, subject to approval of a final plat and execution
of a development contract (including specifically payment of SAC and WAC
fees for receipt of trunk sewer and water services) to assure the City of
timely development, except that not more than twenty (20) percent of the
total waste water treatment capacity designated for residential uses within
each individual sewer district shall be allocated to final plats within a single
development for a twenty-four (24) month period, unless specifically
approved by the City Council.
4. The average annual number of building permits for new residential dwellings
issued within the east and west sanitary sewer districts combined shall be
determined based on the ten (10) year period from 1999 to 2008.
5. Based on actual data regarding waste water flow processed at the East
Waste Water Treatment Plant and the recommendations of the City
Engineer, 175 gpd. shall be used as the basis for Residential Equivalent
Connections (RECs) for the purpose of determining and allocating sanitary
sewer treatment capacity.
ADOPTED this 14th day of February, 2005, by the City Council of the City of
Otsego, Minnesota.
CITY OF OTSEGO
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