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• ORDINANCE 95- <br /> CITY OF ELK RIVER <br /> AN INTERIM ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM OF <br /> THE APPROVAL OF CERTAIN SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN CERTAIN <br /> AREAS OF THE CITY OF ELK RIVER <br /> The City Council of the City of Elk River does hereby ordain as follows: <br /> Section 1. Purpose. The City Council is nearing completion of the <br /> process of updating the City of Elk River Comprehensive Plan. It is <br /> anticipated that this process will take an additional six (6) months. One of <br /> the major issues that will be discussed during this process is the extension of <br /> City water and sewer services. The most likely direction for extending <br /> utilities is to the east and southeast of the present sanitary sewer and water <br /> area, to serve the commercial and industrial areas along east Highway 10 <br /> and the residential areas along the eastern edge of the City. Extending <br /> utilities to the east and southeast will require a substantial City investment <br /> in trunk facilities and improvements to the City's waste water treatment <br /> plant. The City's ability to finance these facilities and improvements will <br /> depend on its ability to assess benefited properties which will be served by <br /> IIthe new trunk facilities and plant expansion. <br /> The most difficult properties to assess when extending municipal <br /> utilities are large residential lots from two to ten acres. Properties which fall <br /> in this category are expensive to serve with utilities for a single residential <br /> unit, and are difficult to subdivide so that the cost of the utilities can be <br /> spread over multiple units. The City has experienced this problem in the <br /> past and is acting to prevent this from happening again so that this type of <br /> residential development does not prevent the extension of utilities to serve <br /> the commercial and industrial areas along east Highway 10 and the <br /> residential areas along the eastern edge of the City. The Metropolitan <br /> Council also recommends that rural areas which are intended to be served <br /> with municipal utilities be restricted to ten acre minimum lot sizes for <br /> residential lots. <br /> This interim moratorium ordinance is therefore adopted to protect the <br /> integrity of the comprehensive planning process and the health, safety, and <br /> welfare of the Citizens of Elk River by assuring that development within the <br /> affected areas of the City does not prevent the extension of utilities into these <br /> areas if the Comprehensive Plan is amended to provide for such extension. <br /> 41111 <br />