City Council Meeting Date: May 15, 2018
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Sean Simonson, Engineering Manager
David Bennett, P.E., Public Works Director/City Engineer
Subject:
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Consider Adopting Assessments for the 2018 Division Street and Seventh Street Reconstruction and Washington Street Mill and Overlay Project
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Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council approves the attached Resolution with Alt. 1or 2 Adopting Assessments for the 2018 Division Street and Seventh Street Reconstruction and Washington Street Mill and Overlay Project (2018STRT-A37).
Summary Report:
The City Council is being asked to approve a resolution (Attachment 1) adopting the assessments for the 2018 Division Street and Seventh Street Reconstruction and Washington Street Mill and Overlay Project (2018STRT-A37). The statutorily required 14-day notice for the May 1, 2018 assessment hearing was published in the Northfield News on April 11, 2018 and notices were sent to abutting property owners. On May 1, 2018, the City Council held a public hearing on assessments for the 2018 Division Street and Seventh Street Reconstruction and Washington Street Mill and Overlay Project (2018STRT-A37).
During the public hearing, City Council raised the question regarding the size of a home that could be put on a specific lot size of roughly 5,600 square feet and 10,890 square feet. After consultation with the City Planning Department, based on a Building Area Ratio Limit of 30% from the City of Northfield Land Development Code (LDC), a 1,680 square foot house could be built on the 5,600 square foot lot, and a 3,267 square foot house could be built on the 10,890 square foot lot. Furthermore, the west side of Washington Street, which is in the C-1 zoning district, would permit multi-family residential as well as commercial zoning principal uses listed in table 2.7-1 of the LDC. On the east side of Washington Street, which is in the R-1 zoning district, several ...
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