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8/21/84 Page -11- <br />CITY ATTORNEY'S REPORT Councilmembers had a copy of the ordinance. <br />ORDINANCE N0. 832 - MULTI- Attorney Rautenstraus advised this was the <br />FAMILY WATER AND SEWER TAP second continuance of the ordinance pending <br />FEE INCREASE - CONTINUED PUBLIC discussion between Karl Kasch and Craig <br />HEARING Krueger of McStain Enterprises relative to <br /> the multi-family increases in water and <br /> sewer taps. The information Mr. Rauten- <br /> straus received from Mr. Kasch was that <br /> it was appropriate to proceed with the or- <br /> dinance the way that it had been drafted. <br /> With respect to questions about taps for <br /> landscaping purposes, perhaps those should <br /> be dealt with on an individual case by case <br /> basis. Councilmembers had been provided <br /> letters from McStain Enterprises and Colum- <br /> bine Homes stating their position on the <br /> ordinance. <br />Mayor Meier continued the public hearing <br />and requested that Attorney Rautenstraus <br />read the Ordinance by title; which he did. <br />Mayor Meier asked if there were any public <br />comments in favor or against Ordinance No. <br />832. <br />Craig Krueger, McStain Mr. Krueger stated that this ordinance was <br />Enterprises very important to their company and did not <br />think it should be casually passed just to <br />get it off the agenda. It could have a <br />serious impact on housing prices in Louisville. <br />He did have an opportunity to speak with <br />Mr. Kasch and he thought that they had basi- <br />cally agreed that when you considered the <br />total water usage for both landscaping and <br />with the individual units that the multi- <br />family compared to approximately 80% of <br />the single family. Mr. Krueger stated the <br />ordinance as written requires payment of 100% <br />of a single family home for the first unit <br />of a multi-family home, the remainder are at <br />80% of a single family home, then on top of <br />that are the landscaping fees. In Westfield <br />they had two taps that cost them nearly <br />$40,000 in addition to~.the standard water <br />tap fees that they had to pay. He also <br />stated that recently the tap fee had been <br />increased to $5,450 in order to pay back <br />Homart for water improvements that they are <br />going to make. We are also talking about <br />raising tap fees to pay for the Howard Berry <br />treatment plant, each of these are being <br />