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Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Enter into a Facilities Agreement with McKinney Partners 306, LP Regarding the Provision of Sanitary Sewer Serving the Willow Wood Development
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic Growth
MEETING DATE: May 5, 2015
DEPARTMENT: Development Services / Engineering
CONTACT: Michael Hebert, PE, Assistant Director of Engineering
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of the Resolution
ITEM SUMMARY:
* A companion item, which is an agreement with DART regarding the sewer line discussed herein, is included on this agenda.
* In 2013, the City of McKinney entered into an agreement regarding the development of the proposed Willow Wood subdivision. That agreement does not require modification due to this proposed agreement or the DART agreement.
* The Willow Wood development is located east of State Highway 5 near the intersection of SH 5 and FM 543 as shown on the attached exhibit.
* The original sewer plan for the development contemplated an aerial crossing of the East Fork of the Trinity River to serve the development and the surrounding area.
* This aerial crossing would be very costly for the developer to construct and for the City to maintain. The creek crossing and the pipe leading to it would also have required the removal of several large diameter trees which can be preserved using an alternative routing.
* The alternative routing requires the crossing of a DART right of way, which necessitates a license agreement with DART.
* There are costs and stipulations included in the license agreement required by DART.
* These include an annual maintenance fee which starts at $1,800 per year, increasing with inflation.
* The developer has agreed to participate in paying the first 50 years of these costs, which was calculated to have a present worth value of approximately $135,000.
* Since other developments besides Willow Wood will utili...
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