City Council Minutes 1974 05 14 Work Session

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SPROUL WORK SESSION LOUISVILLE CITY COUNCIL MAY 14, 197~ Mayor Waschak called the work session to order at 7:30 with the following members present: Domenico, Berry, Dhieux, DelPizzo, and DiCarlo. Mayor Waschak stated that this was a work session with the Sproul representatives and there would be no questions from the audience. Mr. Wurl stated that the three main questions pertained to: water, who would be developing the project and the financial ability of Sproul to accomplish the project. Mr. Guy Hollenbeck, representative of Sproul stated that he would answer the questions. WATER: At the beginning the applicant has taken the responsibility to bear the economic burden of providing water and sewer resources for the property being discussed. He stated that the way this is visualized is to have an agreement as was referred to earlier as an annexation agreement which would in effect say that Sproul could not develop any part of the gound until as each phase that has been requested be approved by the City. By this he meant after the property is annexed Sproul would be required to process through the City and get final approval on the final proposal of the property. He stated that one of the things Sproul woul be required to show would be that the City has services for the proposed project and if this can not be shown along with the other factors involved then the request to develop that phase would be denied. After the land was annexed in order to get the phase started Sproul would be expected to come to the City and ask the City staff what they felt was needed in order to get the development started. The whole idea was, once in the City, and knowing who the staff is, Sproul could work with them and find out how these problems should be approached. Theoretically, the City would tell Sproul that they have a certain amount of units available at this time and if Sproul wants to provide more taps then that they would have to get water. The City may state which program would be appro- priate with acquisitions of water rights, and Sproul would also make suggestions to the City as to how this matter could be accomplished. Once the City and applicant reach agreement as to what water rights should be sought or other program should be proceeded with, then it would be up to Sproul to spend the funds and effort to generate that water. In addition to that Sproul would have to generat the funds for the payment of ex- tension of the normal transmission lines and if the filteration plant and reservoirs, etc. require enlargement the expenditures would be Sprouls. In protection to the City Sproul visualises that no developments have to be improved until Sproul has taken the initiative and provided the resources with which to supply that water need. He stated that he thought it was an obvious practical matter this land isn't going to be annexed