Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Department of Utilities

TO:	David L. Corliss, City Manager Cynthia Wagner, Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard, Assistant City Manager
FROM:	Shelley Schupp, Project Engineer
CC:	Dave Wagner, Director of Utilities Philip Ciesielski, Assistant Director of Utilities Mike Lawless, Assistant Director of Utilities Sandra Day, Planner
Date:	August 18, 2010
RE:	821 Iowa Street (SP-06-33-10) Waiver request from City Code 19-214(B)

Please include the following item on the City Commission agenda for consideration at the August 24, 2010 meeting:

Approval of the attached request by Cornerstone Architects, on behalf of the owner of the property at 821 Iowa Street, Xin Li Liu, for a waiver from 19-214B of the City Code which states that a private sanitary sewer service line shall not be located in a City public right of way for greater than 15 feet. 

Xin Li Liu, the property owner of 1530 W. 6^th Street, recently submitted a site plan application to change the building use to a restaurant.  The building’s existing sanitary sewer service line connects to a public sanitary sewer manhole approximately 144 feet north of the property.  The sanitary sewer service line is located approximately 200 feet along and within the Iowa Street right of way.  While the service line will not be modified as part of the current redevelopment, the requested waiver does bring the property into compliance with the current code.  Future redevelopment of the site shall require sanitary sewer service connection comply with City Code 19-214B. 

Action Request. Department of Utilities staff requests the City Commission’s approval of the requested waiver from 19-214B of the code for 821 Iowa Street.