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City of iver ITEM 6.15. MEMORANDUM FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Mayor & City Council Steven B. Ach, City Planner~~_~ June 17, 1996 Consider Ordinance Amendment Request by City of Elk River, Public Hearing, Case No. OA 96-2 Issue The City of Elk River has initiated an ordinance amendment which would allow commercial and industrial development within the city's urban service district to occur prior to the availability and hooking up to city water and sewer. Overview Consideration of this ordinance amendment has been initiated in response to a request from LeFebvre Trucking and Morrell Trucking to relocate their businesses along the east Highway 10 corridor at 171st Avenue. The proposed location of the two businesses is within the urban service district and under the city's current ordinance, development cannot occur prior to the availability of city water and sewer. Therefore, staff has researched the options available for the City Council to consider to accommodate these two businesses' interest in relocating. The ordinance amendment before the City Council, if approved, would be one option to allow the businesses to relocate to their prospective site on 171st. However, amending the ordinance would open all land with the urban service to development and essentially eliminate the city's growth management guidelines. As staff has pointed out in previous memos, this would have a backlashing effect in extending utilities to areas within the urban service area at a later date. Furthermore, the city attorney has expressed a concern of whether a binding contract can be entered into between the property owner and the city which basically requires the hooking up and]or prepaying of trunk assessments prior to the utilities being available. In short, amending the ordinance appears to have more drawbacks than advantages. 13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425