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• A manufactured home on Pine Street; <br /> • A vacant parcel on Government Drive across from Chamber <br /> Building; <br /> • A property at the corner of Gravdahl Drive and Main Street across <br /> from City Hall; <br /> • A vacant lot on Rasmussen Road south of the church (explain <br /> location). <br /> • This item will also be moved to the 2019 Project Priorities. <br /> 3. Identify properties with substandard housing and create a process to <br /> effectively remedy it. Encourage and/or require rental property owners to <br /> improve substandard housing. <br /> • This item will also be moUed to the 2019 Project Priorities. <br /> This month we will discuss the following Project Priority: <br /> Transportation — <br /> 1. Create a city policy establishing when newly constructed roads will be <br /> accepted by the City for long-term maintenance. The policy should be <br /> based on reasonable assurance that the long-term maintenance costs will <br /> be sufficiently balanced by the additional ta�c revenue generated. <br /> Staff contacted the League of Minnesota Cities to obtain a sample policy for the <br /> above; however, the League does not have such a policy and could not provide <br /> any information. <br /> Staff contacted the City Engineer, Tim Houle, WSN, who provided the following: <br /> In working around the State, we/ WSN are not aware of cities the general size of Pequot <br /> Lakes that have a written policy on establishing when newly constructed roads will be <br /> accepted by the City— and that include a component of calculating, analyzing, accounting <br /> for, and balancing the long-tenn maintenance costs versus the tax revenue, or additional <br /> tax revenue, generated. <br /> Policies can be phrased such that they are not requirements, and can be implemented on a <br /> case-by-case basis. But, we might even suggest that instead of a `Policy", it be entitled as <br /> a Guidance Stateinent. <br /> Before drafting a "Policy", there are some questions that should be answered to help <br /> focus the efforts on comi�Ig up with this "Policy". <br /> Should this policy only address newly constructed roads? Should this policy address <br /> those roads that were constructed in the past and are now seeing�nore and more adjacent <br /> developinent . . . and so maybe should be reviewed and considered for acceptance as City <br /> roads? In the analysis/ consideration, does one just look at the level of development (and <br /> Pequot Lakes Staff Report �(b)-2 <br /> October i8,2oi8 <br />