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CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF A REVOCABLE UTILITY INSTALLATION PERMIT FOR CASCADE ADDITION TO INSTALL IRRIGATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS IN PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
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BACKGROUND: During its March meeting, the Council Oversight Committee discussed domestic water wells for non-potable use and related permit requirements. Specifically, the Committee discussed a request by a neighborhood association (Cascade Addition Homeowner's Association) to install a water well for irrigation use. Staff was directed to move forward with a proposed ordinance that would modernize the City's regulations regarding domestic water wells consistent with State law.
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Mr. Vince DiCastro, President of the Cascade Addition Homeowner's Association, contacted the Public Works Department requesting permission for the HOA to install five (5) underground street crossings in the public right of way for a private irrigation system to be used by the HOA to irrigate several common areas within the residential subdivision. A map is attached indicating the location of the areas to be irrigated and the proposed locations where the distribution lines will cross the public right-of-way. Cascade Addition is located south of Tecumseh Road and west of 36th Avenue NW. Mr. DiCastro related that he and his HOA Board of Directors have been working for some time on a project to convert these five irrigation "zones" located throughout the subdivision to one irrigation zone. The current five zones are served by water service lines connected to the City water system. The proposed single irrigation zone will be served by one new private water well. In order to connect the five current irrigation zones, the HOA is asking to bore 3-inch irrigation pipelines under five existing public streets.
At the request of Council Members Williams and Castleberry, the City Manager directed staff from the Public Works, Legal, Planning and Utilities Departments to research concerns an...
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