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Approving the establishment of the Riverview Special Sanitary Sewer Availability Connection Charge District, determining the Riverview Special Sanitary Sewer Availability Connection Charge, approving record of restated and combined inter department loans, and budget amendment (Ward 2, District 3).
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul (the “City”) is a home rule charter city organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota; and
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Chapter 76 of the City’s Legislative Code, the City’s sewer utility manager has submitted to the City Council a report with a recommendation (“Report”) that an area of the City known as the Riverview Lift Station Service Area and described in the attached Exhibit A (“Riverview Area”) lacks sufficient sanitary sewer capacity or requires sanitary sewer infrastructure improvements to meet sewer demand caused by new development or uses on the parcels of land located within the Riverview Area; and
WHEREAS, to meet the expected demand on the sanitary sewer capacity in the Riverview Area caused by new development or uses, the City intends to improve the sewer capacity or infrastructure (“Improvements”) and the total project costs to be incurred by the City for such Improvements is estimated at $2,512,462 (“TPC”), and that but for these Improvements new development in the Riverview Area would not occur; and
WHEREAS, the City intends to fund a portion of the construction costs of the Improvements from the proceeds of a loan (“Loan”) from the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (“HRA”), the terms and conditions of such Loan to be memorialized in a Record of Restated and Combined Inter Department Loans (“Record”); and
WHEREAS, Minn Stat Section 444.075, Subd.3 permits the City to charge new users connecting to the enhanced sanitary sewer system for the costs of such Improvements provided that the charge is just and equitable to all potential new uses, and
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