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. Honorable Mayor and City Council September 23, 1994 Page Two trunk storm sewer. With the change in policy to a storm sewer impact fee, Country Crossings will be charged $100 per lot for their share of the cost to connect into these trunk lines. This results in a significant difference between the amounts of monies paid for trunk storm sewer on each development. We tried to explain that neither Mississippi Oaks nor Heritage Landing are at a competitive disadvantage because there have been other changes in policy which adversely affect Country Crossings. These would include the assessment of $30 per foot for Orono Parkway which is outside the plat boundary, and 100% of the cost of street and storm sewer for Joplin between County Road 30 and Orono Parkway. I attempted to go through an analysis of the cost for each plat divided by the number of lots as presented in my letter of Septemb~_. I believe that the participants at the meeting understood what the outcome of that would be and were not interested in hearing that entire analysis. . At the close of the meeting, I agreed to prepare a letter for Ron Black on Mississippi Oaks and for Denny Chuba on Heritage Landing that would spell out the construction costs for each of their developments versus Country Crossings. This, of course, will not be able to factor in the cost of the land nor the time value of the money they needed to borrow to do their developments. It will, however, give them an "apples to apples" comparison of the construction costs each development is paying for utilities and streets. These comparisons will be put together and mailed to the parties early next week. At the close of the meeting, I specifically asked those in attendance if my perception that all issues were resolved with the exception of the method of fmancing storm sewer. They all agreed that that was true. Their major concern, once again, was their feeling that they were being treated unfairly in having paid 100% assessment for storm sewer while Country Crossings would benefit from the change in policy and only pay a storm sewer impact fee. I suggested to them that they could submit a letter to the City questioning this policy, and it could then be brought forward to the City Council for their consideration. At this point in the meeting, Pat Klaers,City Administrator, had stepped into the room. I believe that he and I made it clear that even though they could make a request to the City Council for consideration, staffs position would likely be to recommend against a retroactive interpretation of the storm sewer policy. If you have any questions or comments regarding this information, please give me a call. Sincerely, . MSA, CONSULTING ENGINEERS ~}l~/ Terry T.Maurer, P.E. TJM:tw 2301223.2301.sep