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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRoads Taskforce - Minutes (2)AGENDA ROAD IMPROVEMENT TASK FORCE SEPTEMBER 12, 1988 A. CALL TO ORDER 1. Roll Call 2. Agenda Approval B. AFPROVAL Or MI.3UTES, 8-18888 C. DISCUSSION 1. Proposal to Council D. ADJOURN l' -rye,, ~- •C-Oti-AIGI-L DtLETING OF o -. -.:~:; .,, a- j r f ~ j a,A-G~ I-~'-e-~'-- -^~;;~TT MEETING OF ~=/P~-F~ A. CALL TO ORDER 1. Roll Call 2. Agenda Approval B. APPROVAL OF MINUTES, 8-11-88 C. DISCUSSION 1. Review of Material D. ADJOURN TASK FORCE, ROAD IMPROVEMENTS Minutes, August 18, 1988, 7:00 PM Kenai City Hall Chairman Peter Lyse presiding A. CALL TO ORDER Chairman Lyse called the meeting to order. A-1 Roll Call Present: P. Lyse, F. Getty, K. Godek, R. Malston, D. Quellette, L. Quesnel, T. Wagoner Absent: R. Baldwin, D. St. John, D. Sandahl, C. Ward (All arrived late) Also in Attendance: City Manager Brighton, City Clerk Ruotsala, Public Works Director Kornelis B. APPROVAL OF MINUTES, 8-11-88 Minutes approved by unanimous consent. C. DISCUSSION C-1 Review of Material a. Task Force agreed to hold meetings on Thursdays, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. MR. ST. JOHN, MRS. WARD, MR. BALDWIN ARRIVED, 7:15 PM. Mr. Getty: There are a lot of people that are very confused about what is going on. There are gravel roads on both sides of town, there are places that will not get water & sewer for many years. There should be more public comment from these districts. Council has dumped this in our lap, we are between a rock and a hard place. MR. SANDAHL ARRIVED, 7:25 PM. Mr. Wagoner: Council has passed the buck by doing this. ~; It is their responsibility. This does not belong in the Charter. The policy should be by ordinance. Mr. Quellette: The reason for the Task Force is because the City has themselves in a bad place. They have given free paving.' They should not continue unless they give to all. Our charge is to come up with a method that is fair to all. You cannot mix water & sewer with paving. If you assess larger areas, their casts will be very high. When you run paving in front of a house, you do not increase the value, water & sewer does increase the value. A lineal ft. is the only economical way to ROAD IMPROVEMENTS TASK FORCE AUGUST 18, 1988 PAGE 2 charge. It should not be up to Council what to charge. Mr. Wagoner: He was assessed by the sq. ft. Public Works Director Kornelis explained how assessments work. We can assess per sq. ft. For example, if we have a project and paving is $44,000, we assess 50% or $22,000. If one owner feels he should not be paying that much, and Council does not want him to pay, others will take up the slack. Mr. Lyse: With water & sewer, what are residents assessed? Mr. Kornelis: 25%. Mr. Lyse: What is the paving amount? City Manager Brighton: There is no set policy on payments, but up to 25% of approved value on both. Mr. Lyse: If he lived on a street the City wanted to improve, if the majority say no, they don't get it. Mr. Wagoner: It is not up to the City to offer assessments, the people ask for it. Mr. Lyse: If the people are not active in pursuing, the City should offer. City Manager Brighton: When we advertised for assessment districts, no one responded. Mr. Getty: The money is oil money, it belongs to all of us. There are people who are bitter about streets that have been paved because of political action. If we are going to come up with something, let's have the people be part of it. A lot of paving has been.dahe by oil companies, a lot by the City, some with airport funds. If we come up with an idea that will cost the people money when they already have improvements, they will say no. Mr. Brighton: The crux of the problem is the people feel the City has provided free streets. Council felt the way to expand paving when money got tight was by assessment. Mr. Wagoner: Redoubt, Woodland, Inlet View - those with paving, water & sewer were assessed with the price of the lot. It is not free paving. Mr. St. John: Council should make a decision where funds come from. Chairman Lyse: There are residential as opposed to commercial/gathering streets. Is there a difference and who pays? ~ Mr. Quellettet The City has gotten into the real estate business and-the golf course. If property owners are assessed, the City should assess themselves. Mr. Brighton: They do. Mr. Quellette: If someone on a corner lot has their street paved and has assessments, and then the other street is paved, can they be assessed in 2 districts? Mr. Kornelis: They could. Mr. Wagoner: When you sell ROAD IMPROVEMENTS TASK FORCE AUGUST 18, 1988 PAGE 3 a corner lot and it is paved on both sides, it is more desirable. Mr. Quellette: It does not increase the value to the cost of the assessments. Mr. Baldwin: We should develop the direction of the Task Force: a) water & sewer improvements, b) ordinance or Charter amendment, c} mix between assessments and grant. How are we going to make these decisions? We could designate a meeting for each issue. Should we set a deadline? The Task Force agreed to schedule Thursday meetings, but at each meeting they would decide if there would be a meeting the following week. Mr. Wagoner suggested a list of specifics from Council as to what they want us to do. Mr. Sandahl: We should not meet till we get direction. Mr. Brighton reviewed the minutes of the Aug. 3 Council meeting. He noted the Council does not want to call it Capital Improvements, but road paving only. MOTION: Mr. Baldwin moved, seconded by Mr. Quesnel, to request Council specify definite goals for this body before we take on any task. Motion passed by unanimous consent. Mr. Brighton: He is here with Clerk Ruotsala and Public Works Director Kornelis to give information, not influence. The Council has already established policy, they will not pave roads that do not have water & sewer, with the exception of where water & sewer will not be done for many years. Mr. Quellette: Council is giving this to the Task Force, they were not elected. Mr. Sandahl: Is paving more important than other projects? Or is this ___developing_because of_political..pressure?---Mr.- Brighton: The City has had public opinion polls for many years, road paving is the # 1 priority. j Public Works Director Kornelis: We have $2 Million+ designated for roads. No matter how we finance, we pay the contractor when he does the job and it may be 20 years before we get it back. We have to turn it back if it's not used in 5 years. Mr. Brighton: $700,000 must be committed by Oct. 1989. There are some gravel roads with more traffic than others. Council will identify those first. Chairman Lyse suggested the first discussion should be what kind of streets are going to be paved. ROAD IMPROVEMENTS TASK FORCE AUGUST 18, 1988 -- PAGE 4 Mr. Wagoner: Council, when money was available, paved many roads, but the bulk was to improve roads that were not up to par as far as all-weather roads. After that we said if we have paving, we will have assessments. People should pay for improvements. You will get it back when you sell. Mr. Brighton: The City spent $1.5 Million on Thompson Pk., over 1.5 Million on Candlelight-Linwood, $2 Million on Haller-Evergreen, $800,000 on roads across from Thompson Pk. None of that was asphalt. No one was assessed. That included water & sewer in 2 of them. We are down to asphalt now. Mr. Getty asked Mr. Sandahl, is health & safety a concern of the School Dist? Mr. Sandahl replied, it is primary. Mr. Getty: We are going to pave Swires because the School District will not pave. Why? Mr. Brighton: The Borough Public Works Director said they asked and the School-Board said no. Mr. Getty: It is going to be paved because of safety. But you have safety problems on Haller and the golf course is a City problem. 2 people are on sewer on Candlelight, the golf course and Mulhollunds. $300,000 to put water to the golf course. Does health & safety come into this? Mr. Lyse: We cannot isolate areas. Mr. Baldwin: We don't know where we are going. He hesitated to go forward. Mr. Malston: One of our goals is to formulate a method of assessing and if we are assessing. Mr. Lyse suggested adding to the motion, residential and commercial streets, are they assessed the same? Do they have what is residential and what is commercial? Mr. Brighton: There is no Code other than P&Z identification. Most of paving left is residential. Mr. Malston: That could change. Mr. St. John: When Council makes its list on street paving, they go down the list and have assessment districts? Mr. Brighton: The City can-f orce_assessment districts with a vote of 6 members. Mr. St. John: If we'"pave and form assessment districts, we will not lose the funds? Mr. Quellette: The idea is to service as / many as possible with $2 Million. The best way is to assess. Mrs. Godek: The people of the City spoke when they did not respond to the request for assessments. People are not going to pay 50o assessments. Mrs. Ward suggested the agenda list the first item of business be setting up guidelines and goals. Task Force agreed to meet again Sept. 8, 7:00 PM. ROAD IMPROVEMENTS TASK FORCE AUGUST 18, 1988 PAGE 5 D. ADJOURNMENT Meeting adjourned at 8:35 PM. ~ Janet Ruotsala City Clerk KENAI CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING PARTIAL TRANSLATION SEPT. 7, 1988 D. COMM/COMM REPORTS D-8 Misc. Comm/Comm Task Force Member Quesnel. There will be a meeting Sept. 12. They were waiting for information from Council. City Manager Brighton. In the Aug. 18 minutes the Task Force requested Council specify their goals before taking on any task. He has provided minutes of both Task Force meetings to Council. Councilwoman Monfor. it was the intent of Council to have a short turnaround Task Force get to a determination. We have received money for capital improvement projects, if you live in an area with water & sewer improvements, we will take that money for this. If you want paving, you must pay for it. With the changes in Council, we felt there should be a statement that the City should handle paving only. We wanted recommendations to Council with every area from all sides. They should say what their recommendations are, assess or we will pay. It is very specific. They should come to a meeting of the minds, it should be part of the Code. City Manager Brighton. We have 12 members on the Task Force, there are almost that many opinions. Councilwoman Monfor. Then they should come back to Council and say it is not workable. Mr. Quesnel. He will take this to the Task Force and that would clarify it. Councilwoman Swarner. She thought it would be on the ballot. Mr. Quesne L There are 12 opinions from the Task Force, they want specifics from Council, this will satisfy them. Councilman McCOmsey. It says capital improvements in the minutes. City Manager Brighton. They have agreed that was for asphalt only. Janet Ruotsala City Clerk M ~„ City of Soldotna P.O. Box 409 • 177 North Birch •Soldotna, Alaska 99669 ®Phone: 262-9107 August 22, 1988 ~.~" ` ~ ``~®?~ ^~ ~ ~ 4$ j Bill Brighton ~ c,~~~`r,~~'~c~ .City IVlanager N o ~o; ~- ~ , City of Kenai o F~F~/'., o°: 210 Fidalgo 6~tss~s2~`~~ Kenai, Alaska 99611 Re: Street Improvement Financing Dear Bill: I can't help but note the struggle underway with your Council in the debate on whether or not to use assessment financing for street improvements as I "read all _ about it" in the Peninsula Clarion. As c®mparisons are being made to what we've done in Soldotna, I thought it might be helpful to share with you exactly how we have financed our street paving projects. First, the City Council has established a firm policy that all "collector" routes will be financed without an assessment. As to local streets, however, the Council has insisted that the property owners must be willing to accept an assessment for 25% of the cost before we will proceed with final engineering for an improvement. Our Street Improvement Revolving Fund was initially capitalized by the sale of G.O. Bonds in the amount of $'I million, approved by our voters in 1985. Debt service on the bonds is financed by dedicated sales tax revenues. Subsequent legislative grants were also deposited to the fund. Any water or sewer extensions or stubouts are financed by transfers from our Utility Fund to the Street Improvement ':Revolving Fund. Expenditures for water and sewer work incidental to the improvements are recovered by a "Connection Fee" which must be paid, with ';interest, on application for service. -:_ _ Our~1989 program will be financed by the revenue we've Yeceived from the special =aassessments and any grants we may receive next year. Although we offer a 10 year =~mstallment payment plan, we've found that the assessment revenue comes in quite "quickly because financial institutions require them to be paid off on sale of the property. I enclosing a copy of Resolution 88-22, currently under consideration by the Council, which would establish our project priorities for the next 3 years. We try to get prior approval for the assessment districts so that we can expedite construction after the financing is secured. Street Improvement Financing If any street proposed for improvement attracts significant opposition from the property owners, we just pass over that street in favor of next priority project. We hope to give most of our residents an opportunity for a paving project by the end of 1991. Where property owners have objected to the assessments, we hope to give them another chance for a project after 1991 with financing to be provided by the assessment revenues. It was clear that we would never have enough money to pave our streets all at once, but I think the concept of a revolving fund for future improvements to be financed by assessment revenues helped to secure voter approval for our 1985 G.O. Bonds. Phil Shealy used the same concept successfully last year when Homer dedicated sales tax revenues to debt service payments on some bonds for street improvements. The City of i almer capitalized its street improvement revolving fund with state grants. An assessment is required for all street improvements in Palmer, but the City underwrites some of the costs of "collector routes" by subsidizing costs allocable to making the street wider than a standard residential section. Of course, you could also capitalize a street improvement revolving fund by a transfer from your fund balances with or without voter approval. If Kenai decides to use assessment financing, I hope this information can save you .some work. Sincerely, ~~~ Richard Underkofler City Manager '~ ~.,,.. ,Enclosure (1) ~~~ x. ,~ ~" :~f .,, ~:z ! ~: - . t~"`` ~x*, ~,~ r" ` =~~. 2 August 22, 1988 ,,, ..f ` _ ~ C y_;e~ 3 v S.i CITY OF SOLDOTNA RESOLUTION 88-22 SUBSTITUTE #1 (As Suggested for Revision Following Amendments Made on August 17, 1988) A RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE STREET IMPROVEMENTS, TO TENTATIVELY SELECT CERTAIN STREETS FOR IMPROVEMENT IN 1989, TO DIRECT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO PREPARE PRELIMINARY PLANS AND ESTIMATES OF COST FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS AND TO ESTABLISH A TIME FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE NEC'cSSiTi° FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS WHEREAS, the City Council has established a Local Street Improvement Revolving Fund to finance drainage and street improvements in neighborhoods where property owners are willing to accept Special Assessment Districts to finance 25 percent of the cost; and, WHEREAS, the Street Improvement Revolving Fund presently has $652,116 appropriated for streets to be improved in 1989; and, WHEREAS, it is possible that the City may receive capital grants from the State of Alaska during the next legislative session which may also be used to help finance street reconstruction projects; and, WHEREAS, the City Manager has made certain recommendations as to the order of priority for streets to be improved based, in part, on an assumption that priority should be given to streets where property owners have petitioned for the improvements and that streets should be selected in a manner which would enable the sharing of common storm drainage facilities; and, WHEREAS, it is now necessary to proceed with preliminary plans and cost estimates, to give public notice of potential assessments, and to establish a time for a public hearing on the necessity for the proposed improvements; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOLDOTNA, ALASKA: Section 1. Proposed Pelorities. The following priorities are hereby proposed for future street improvements within the City of Soldotna. The first three priority projects shall be tentatively scheduled r for construction in the summer of 1989, subject to appropriations for such purposes, and shall be `~ > ~'~ ° coliedively known as the 1989 Street Improvement Program. ~~-. ,~,,~: - First Priority Project 89-7 Stree4 EL~Il ~ Arlington Avenue Fireweed Avenue Street Katmai Avenue Rockwell Avenue Brentwood Street Marydale Avenue West End Knight Drive Second Priority -Project 89-2 Fran ~ Fireweed Avenue Kobuk Street Fireweed Avenue Kobuk Street Resolution 88-22 City of Soidotna, Alaska Third Priority Project 89-3 ~I Eta Ia Hil~rest Avenue Riverview Avenue Fireweed Avenue Riverview Avenue Hiilcrest Avenue Binkley Street Fourth Priortty -Project 30-1 $Sr~t FIB ~ Sohi Lane Starlite Marydaie Avenue - Kobuk Street Sohi Lane North End Ftith Priortty -Project 90-2 Street FIl2tri ~ Diane Lane Marydaie Avenue North End Crows Nest Diane Lane West End Sixth Prlorlty -Project 91-1 yS:~LLj ~ T4 Birch Street Kenai Spur Highway Sterling Highway Park Avenue Kenai Spur Highway Binkley Street Riverside Drive Kobuk Street Sterling Highway Seventh Prlorlty -Project 91-2 $1[~ei E~ Endicott Drive Kalifomski Beach Road Katmai Street Endicott Drive Chugach Drive Kalifornski Beach Road Brooks Street Endicott Drive Katmai Street Chugach Drive Katmai Street Chugach Drive 2 Augus4 22, 1988 Draft Resolution 88-22 City of Soldotna, Alaska Section 2. Design Standards. The scope of the improvements would consist of the removal and replacement of unacceptable gravel sub-base material; construction of drainage facilities; and, paving with asphaltic concrete. Ali existing driveways would be paved to the right-of-way line. All areas disturbed by construction would be shaped and landscaped with topsoil and seeding. A. Streets Withou4 Water & Sewer. in neighborhoods where water and sewer is not available, improved drainage ditches and strip paving would be provided. The street paving width would be 28 feet with a 2 foot gravel shoulder on each side. B. Streets With Water & Sewer. In neighborhoods where water and sewer service is available, storm sewers, curb and gutter would be provided. The street width would be 24 feet in single family residential areas. Streets in areas zoned multi-family, planned residential or commercial would be 36 feet wide and include sidewalks on one side. Street lighting would be required fn commercial areas. Section 3. Preiiminary Plans A. The Public Works Department is hereby directed to seek competitive proposals for consultant engineering services necessary to prepare preliminary plans, construction plans, specifications and cost estimates for the 1989 Street Improvement Program. One consultant shall be selected for Projects 89-1 89-2 and 89-3. Engine2dng plans for projects scheduled after 1989 shall be deferred pending receipt of petitions for street improvements from property owners in these neighborhoods. B. On completion of the preliminary plans and cost estimates, the Public Works Department shall prepare a prelimnary assessment roll based on an assumption that a special assessment districts shall be established to finance 25 percent of the cosy. The plans shall describe the proposed special assessment districts and identify the properties to be assessed. The districts may be defined by a description of the properties to be assessed by lot, block and subdivision; or, if unsubdivided, by other appropriate description generally referring to streets, intersections, or other rights-of-way to be included within the districts. Section 4. Installation of Water and Sewer Stub Llnes Required. A. A water or sEWer stub line is defined as that portion of a water or sewer service line which is bcated in the publio right-oi-way or easement that connects a water or sewer main to a building water or sewer Tine. B. The City Council hereby determines Yhat water and sewer stub lines shaii be installed in connection with 4hese street reconstruction projects where the streets contain water and sewer mains in ~~_~<:-~~w'~.=the right-of-way. ;hR., C. Each affected property owner shall be given notice by service of process according to the Alaska ~. , Rules of Civil Procedure and an opportunity td install the stub lihe(sj by private wntracf. D. Such installations shall be in compliance with requirements speafied in Chapter 13.10 and 13.12 of the Soldotna Municipal Code and other provisions of law. The stub Itne Instailailons shall be substantlaliy completed by the end of May for streets 4o be constructed during the summer and stated in the notice to the property owner(s). If an owner has not completed installation of a stub line by the deadline date, the City shall finance and install the stub lines and determine a connection fee, including the cost of the installation and a reasonable financing tee. The connection fee will be charged and collected before a building permit is issued for the premises. E. All connection tees shaii be based upon the diameter of the water and/or sewer stub line and the actual cost to the City for installing the stub line including a reasonable finance tee. 3 August 22, 1988 Draft Resolution 88-22 City of Soldotna, Alaska „ (1) "Actual Cost" means all the costs of installing the stub line; including but not limited to; all costs of engineering, surveying and construction; and, 4he cost of notice by service of process accorcding 4o the Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure. (2) Although the City may utilize intergovernmental grants to help finance these street improvements, the installation of the stub lines shall be entirely financed by local utility funds. The cost for installation of these stub lines shall be excluded from the basis for computing the special assessments for the drainage and street improvements. F. Paymen4 for connection fees may be made in one sum or by installments. If payment is to be made in one sum, payment sha!! not be required sooner tha~~ one (i) year after substantial completion of the work or sooner than sixty (60) days after mailing of the connection fee statement. (1) The entire connection fee may be prepaid, without interest, within sixty (60) days after mailing the connection fee statement, and thereafter the connection fees may be prepaid in whole or in part with interest to the payment date. (2) The period of time allowed for installment paymen4 of connection fees shall be indefinite, but all connection fees and interest shall be fully paid before a building permit is issued for the premises. The rate of interest on the unpaid balance of connection tees shat! be nine percent {9%) per annum. G. Within thirty (30) days after the City Council has established the due date for paymen4 04 Connection fees, the City Clerk shall mail a statement to the record owner of each property benefited by a water and/or sewer stub line. The statement shall designate the property, the amount of the connection fees, the date payment is due, the alternative methods of payment available, and the rate of interest on the unpaid balance. H. Within thirty (30) days after the City Council has established the due date for payment of connection fees, the City Clerk shall record notice of the connection fees in the pertinent public records affecting real property in the City of Soldotna. The notice shall be provided in substantially the following form: "Notice is hereby given that a connection fee is payable to the City of Soldotna, Alaska for Costs incidental to installing water and/or sewer stub lines to the following described property. The connection fee must be paid in full before a building permit is issued for the premises. For more information refer to Section 13.16.050 of the Soldotna Municipal Code." Section 5. Survey and Report by Mayor. On receipt of the preliminary plans from the Public .Works Depadment; the Mayor shall make a survey and-report to the pty councilconcerning tfie need for, desirable extent of and estimated cost of the proposed improvements. The report shall include findings as to the suitability of the improvement proposals to existing street, water, sewer and drainage systems and their compatibility with the city's comprehensive plan. The report shall also include an estimate as to how much money may be available for appropriation for work to be undertaken during the 1989 construction season. 4 August 22, 1988 Draft Resolution 88-22 City of Soldotna, Alaska Section 6. Public Hearing. A public hearing on the necessity for these proposed improvements shall be held Wednesday, October 19, 1988 beginning at Z:30 PM in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Notice of the public hearing and period during which objections may be tiled shall be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Soldotna and mailed to every record owner of property within the proposed special assessment districts. The public hearing may be continued from time to time as the Council may decide. After hearing the interested persons favoring or opposing the proposed improvements, the Council may decrease the extent or value of the improvements, or may delete Prom 4he districts properties which it determines will not benefit from the improvements. Section 7. Resolution to Proceed and Create Special Assessment Districts. After the public hearing is closed, 4he Council shall adopt a Resolution determining whether 4o proceed or not to proceed with the proposed street improvements. A. A resolution to proceed shall find that the improvements are necessary and should be made. If the Council approves an improvement proposal, the resolution shall direct the public works department 40 proceed with construction plans and specifications, updates to the estimates of project costs and the percentage of the cost to be assessed against the benefited property. B. If protests as to the necessity of a proposed project are made by owners of property that will bear fifty percent or more of the estimated cost of the improvement, 4he Council may not proceed with the improvement until the objections have been reduced to Tess than fifty percent, except on approval of not fewer than five members of the City Council. ADOPTED thts day of 1988 Mayor ATTEST: _ City Clerk ;~ ' ,. .. 'ham ' ,. 5 August 22, 1988 Draft Resolution 88-22 City oP Soldotna, Alaska NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING POTENTIAL SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS and WATER AND SEWER CONNECTION FEES 9o r FUTURE SOLDOTNA STREET IMPROVEMENTS Notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held Wednesday, October 19, 1988 In the Council Chambers of Soldotna Clty Hall beginning at 7:30 PM. The purpose of this hearing is to receive comments from property owners on prelirrinary plans and potential special assessments and utility connection fees incidental to street improvements which may be undertaken within the City of Soldotna. Financing Soldotna presently has approximately $650,000 available for street improvements, but the City may receive additional capital grants during the next year for street reconstruction projects. Special assessments would be made to help finance the cosy. The assessments would be based upon 25% of the actual cost within a project area. The assessments may be paid in one lump sum on completion oP the project or they may be financed over a term of ten years with interest at 9.5% per annum. Design Standards The scope of the improvements would consist of the removal and replacement of unacceptable gravel sub-base material; construction of drainage facilities; and, paving with asphaltic concrete. All existing driveways would be paved to the right-of-way line. All areas disturbed by construction would be shaped and landscaped with topsoil and seeding. Streets Without Water & Sewer. In neighborhoods where water and sewer is not available, improved drainage ditches and strip paving would be provided. The street paving width would be 28 feet with a 2 foot gravel shoulder on each side. Streets Wlth Water & Sewer. In neighborhoods where water and sewer service is available, storm sewers, curb and gutter would be provided. The street width would be 24 feet in single family residential areas. Streets in areas zoned mufti-family, planned residential or commercial would be 36 feet wide and include sidewalks on one side. Street lighting would be required in commercial areas. Water and Sewer Stuboufs. The City Council has determined that utility stub lines will also be required on those streets which have water and sewer mains installed in the right-of-way in order to mitigate future cutting of newly paved streets. Each property owner, who does not have stub lines extended td p~bperty lines from water and sewer mains, will have an opportunity to install the stub line(s) by private contract. tf the stub Ilne Installations are not completed by the end of May for streets 4o be constructed during the summer, the City will finance and Install 4he stub Ilnes and establish a connection fee for the work. The period of time allowed for payment of connection fees shall be indefinite, but all connection fees and accumulated interest thereon must be fully paid before a building permit is issued for the premises. The City Council has made some proposals as to the order of priority for streets to be paved based, in part, on a policy that priority should be given to streets where property owners have petitioned for the improvements and that streets should be reconstructed in a manner which would enable the sharing of common storm drainage facilities. The tentative project priorities and special assessment districts are as follows: 6 August 22, 1988 Draft • Resolution 88-22 Street Arlington Avenue Fireweed Avenue Street Katmai Avenue Rockwell Avenue Street Hillcrest Avenue Riverview Avenue Street Sohi Lane Starlite lr ..t Diane Lane Crows Nest ~~ t~~. :,~_ , ` Birch Street ~;~;, , . .Park Avenue Riverside Drive Street Endicott Drive Katmai Street Chugach Drive Brooks Street City of Soldotna, Alaska Firs4 Priority -Project 89-1 En~xn 1¢ Brentwood Street Wes4 End Marydale Avenue Knight Drive Second Prlorlty -Project 89-2 Fl~D ~ Fireweed Avenue Kobuk Street Fireweed Avenue Kobuk Street Third Priority -Project 89-3 E!~ ~ Fireweed Avenue Riverview Avenue Hillcrest Avenue Binkley Street Fourth PrioNty -Project 90-1 Eilxll ~ Marydale Avenue Kobuk Street Sohi Lane North End Fifth Priority Project 90-2 Fpm IQ Marydale Avenue North End Diane Lane West End Sixth Priority -Project 91-1 Eaa[D ~ Kenai Spur Highway Sterling Highway Kenai Spur Highway Binkley Street Kobuk Street Sterling Highway Seventh Prlorlty -Project 91-2 F!~m ~ Kalifomski Beach Road Katmai Street Endicott Drive Chugach Drive Kalitornski Beach Road Katmai Street Endicott Drive Chugach Drive ~ August 22, 7988 Draft Resolution 88-22 City of Soidotna, Alaska Notice of this public hearing and period of time during which objections may be filed will be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in the Peninsula.Clarion and mailed Yo every record owner of property within the proposed special assessment districts. The public hearing may be continued from time to time as the Council may decide. After hearing interested persons favoring or opposing the proposed improvements, the Council may decrease the extent or value of the improvements, or may delete from the districts properties which it determines will not benefit from the improvements. After the public hearing is closed, the Cauncii will adopt a Resolution determining whether to proceed or not to proceed with the proposed street improvements. If the Council approves an improvement proposal, the resolution shall direct the public works department to proceed with plans and specifications, estimates of project costs and the percentage of the cost to be assessed against the benetited property. 14 protests as to the necessity of a proposed project are made by owners of property that will bear fifty percent or more of the estimated cost of the improvement, the Council may not proceed with the improvement until the objections have been reduced to less than fifty (50) percent. Objections to these preliminary plans or to the proposed special assessment districts must be filed In writing by 5 PM, Friday, October 14, 1988 with Patricia Burdick, Soidotna City Clerk, 177 North Birch Street, Soidotna, Alaska 99669. Publish in the Peninsula Clarion: September 23 & 30, October 7, 14 & 19, 1988 Richard Underkofier Soidotna City Manager September 9,1988 8 August 22, 1988 Draft