01-26-2010 Joint Infrastructure Workshop

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Page 1 of 2 Sandy Peine From: Tim Houle [Tim.M.Houle @wsn.us.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 3:22 PM To: Sandy Peine; Dawn Bittner; Mike Loven; Tommy Woog; Chuck Marohn; Mike Rude Subject: Pequot Lakes - Joint Special Meeting of the City Council and the Planning Commission on Future Utility Extensions We appreciated working with the City on trying to come up with the best way to serve the SuperValu project with City sanitary sewer and water. However, we made some decisions on infrastructure that, while they will work, could maybe have been better from a big picture perspective (in some regards, I could say this pretty much on every project I have worked on over the last 24 years). As the Planning Commission works through an update to the Comprehensive Plan, I was hoping the City Council, the Planning Commission, City staff, and us could get together for a joint special meeting. I would suggest it be a Work Session with no final decisions by the Council and just discussion among these above groups. I would propose this joint meeting have a very focused agenda, and participants need to come prepared with ideas. Following is a suggested agenda: A. Acknowledgment that the City's present water treatment and wastewater treatment facility's capacities will handle growth in the foreseeable planning window. B. A presentation of where existing sanitary sewer collection and water distribution is presently. C. From the perspective of planning for future development out from this serviced core, where should sanitary sewer collection and water distribution be extended? D. With direction in C. above, will the City initiate extensions for the good of a particular area or will they require future developers to initiate extensions, even if they need to be bigger than that needed to serve the one development? {The need for a sanitary sewer lift station away from a particular development location is an example where the project may need to be "bigger ". A watermain loop might be another example of a "bigger" project.) If the City Council and the Planning Commission desire, we could do something similar for the Transportation section, but I would submit it should be a separate combined meeting / Work Session. I would envision the City Council reviewing this suggestion at the January 5, 2010 meeting and the Planning Commission reviewing this suggestion at their January meeting with, hopefully, a joint special meeting / Work Session occurring later in January (I am tentatively schedule out of the office the week of January 18th, so I will suggest Tuesday, January 26th). Timothy M. Houle, PE Civil Engineer, Vice President Tel: 218- 316 -3646 12/23/2009