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Extract of Minutes March 14, 1983 Page 3 MAYOR WOODBURN: Thank you. Mrs. McNiesh are there any written comments on the proposal? CHARLOTTE MC NIESH: None, your honor. MAYOR WOODBURN: Thank you. Then, we'll open the Public Hearing to comments from the audience. We will start with anyone who wishes to comment. . TIM NELSON: Honorable Council and Mayor, my name is Tim Nelson. I'm attorney for the applicant J.L.N. Development. Our prefer- ence is the obvious one, to put in the gravity system for the length it can be and the force main for the smaller portion. We feel the combination of gravity and force main will serve future growth of the western portion of the Reiling property and it would be more reasonable and farsighted on the part of the City to provide for potential growth of Mr. Reiling's property. We think that standards should apply and that it ia clear from (in- audible) Minnesota Case (inaudible) interpreting the statutes, that some benefit by way of increased property value would re- sult to Mr. Reiling's property for the portion served by this improvement. The (inaudible) feels that it is not that it necessarily improves the current use of his property but has some potential future benefit however it might develop. The statutes are pretty clear on that. (inaudible) another option was considered at one point in time and that was a private septic and drainfield system. Our engin- eer (inaudible) B.R.W. has indicated that the private system is not a realistic or feasible alternative at this point in time because (inaudible) of the soils makeup in this area and because of (inaudible) maintenance problems in the future. (inaudible) probably the most important reason is that the approved plan for the property would require a complete restructuring for an on site sewer system. (inaudible) The Boss/Nielsen property has been subject to previous assessments in the past for water, sewer and storm sewer; has one payment left on a 1963 sewer assessment relating to the trunk line through the Reiling property and there is the $4500 storm sewer assessment last year. It would be rather cruel irony to have paid for sewer assessments over the years (inaudible) improvement which was de- signed to aid the industrial property in the area and then (in- audible) not be able to develop the property because it is not served with a similar sewer as other properties (inaudible) to recap, the force sewer line (inaudible) cheaper in the short run but more expensive in the long run in that the likelihood is great that the Reiling property will be developed and will re- quire sewer service on some portion of the property, and converse- ly the gravity system is flexible providing for additional develop- ment on the Reiling property (inaudible) request option number one which provides gravity sewer and the shorter force main service to the Nielsen property. .