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City of Elk River REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Agenda Section Meeting Date En . eerin Febru 5, 2007 Item Description Irving Avenue Area Street Rehabilitation Improvement - Public Hearin Introduction The public hearing for the Irving Avenue Area Street Rehabilitation Improvement is scheduled for this evening's Council meeting. Please bring your feasibility study which was distributed at a December meeting. Discussion As with previous street reconstruction projects, an informational meeting has been held. The minutes and presentation from that informational meeting are in the appendix of the feasibility study. I will have a PowerPoint presentation very similar to the informational meeting which I will go through at the public hearing. As with previous reconstruction projects, the assessment is proposed on a residential unit basis. The proposed assessment rate for 2007 has increased modestly from 2006 and is proposed at $6,650 per residential unit. There are a few properties on this project that are not typical residential units. There is a small apartment building and a small townhouse complex. As with the 2006 reconstruction projects, these units are proposed at 0.75 residential equivalents per dwelling unit. The other property that is non-residential is the St. Andrews Church and school property. I have met with representatives of St. Andrews Church individually and indicated to them that the parcel they own on the west side of Irving Avenue at 4th Street is proposed as 1 unit and their church and school frontage on the east side of Irving Avenue is proposed at 6 units, based on the length of frontage and similar-sized residential properties. Therefore, their total proposed assessment for this project is seven units. The biggest issue beyond the assessment amount at the informational meeting was the issue of whether or not sidewalks are needed in the Irving Avenue area. As directed by the City Council at the public hearing I will have a recommendation for sidewalk routes throughout the development. At the end of my presentation I will be available to answer questions from the City Council and/or public. The feasibility study analyzes the potential for paving the alleys between Jackson Avenue and Irving Avenue, 8th Street on the north and 5th Street on the south. At the public hearing it will be my recommendation that this work be excluded from the improvement project. The reason I am making this recommendation is the cost to pave the alleys far exceeds the ability for the adjacent properties to be assessed for the improvement. Because the alleys carry heavy loads with garbage trucks in the spring of the year, the alleys would need to be built as strong as a city street. This