09-25-1951 .-.
A re�ular meeting of the Zoning and Planni.ng Commission of the City
of Honkins w2.s held at the Cit3r Hall at 7:30 P.1�. on 'I'uesd.ay,
September 25, 1,951. Present were �hairman Johnson, Members Pive��
Hagen, �Iayor Perbix, CounciZma.n �ilbert, City Attorney �'�hitney, and
City En�ineer,Laska, Absents Parks,
City Attorney Ydhitneyts statement� dated September 2l�� 19�1, pertain-
ing to agreements between the City of Hopkins, City o£ Minneapolis,
and Dilta�e of St. Louis Park� wa.s read and ordered nlaced on fil�a
Perbix moved, Hagen seconded� that the meeting be postponed to 7;30
P.lv�. on 'il.iesda.y� October 9, 1951. Carried..
Perbix moved, Milbert seconded, that the Zoning and Plannin; Commission
go on record as being in favor of vacating thealley between llth and
12th Avenues hiorth, from north of the �.� St. L. Rai1�3T tr.acks to
Second Street North and so advise the city council. Carried.
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MII��FRS OF ZONIIJG C0-.1�iISSION:
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+� September a4� 1;51 ' �
Zo:�ing and Pla.nning Commieeion
of the City of Hopkins
City Hall
Hopkine, Min:ieaota
Re: Agreement s betkeen thg_C�ty oi fior,kins
and the Ci tv o f MinnPapoli s and be tween
the City of iicpkins and tre Villa�e of
� St. Lo�sis Park t�it'r. reference to aa.nit�.r_v
eewa�e di epo sal.
Ger.-;,�emen:
Gn Ma� 20, 19�+7, thE City of F�inneapolis and the Yillage
(now City) of Hopkins, entered into a written agreement un3er the
� terms of which the Citv of Hopkins was given permission to connect
its sanitary sP�er system to the system of tre Yillage of St. Louis
Park, which latter system was connected with the eewer system of the
Cit;,r of Mir.neapolis.
There 3oe� aot appear to be any lir�itation in �ria �gr�;Fment
�,s to the amount of aewage whicr, may iiow from the Fiopkina aystem into
the Mi�n�anolis system. �c���Pver� the a,�reement doas contain this pro-
vieion: "If in the ,j•,�d�►ent of the City of Minneat�olie ari�r propoaed
e�ctenaion or addit�on �o the Yilla�e aewer a;�stem will reault in dis-
charging a qua.ntity of sewage into tre i�innea,r,oli8 syatem in excess of
the ca�acity of the sewers provided in t�le Ci�s to receive the Village
sewage, it sha.11 notify the Village to tn�,t effect at the time of ap-
proving euch �olans an�. specii'ications.'�
Another pro�ision of the ccntract �rovides th�.t in tre event
the exis�ing aewera of the City of Minneapolis to w�ich the Villa�e
sewers are connected appea.r to be inadequate because of the increase,
or anticipa�Ed incre�se, in tne volume of sewage in the Village eewera,
t�e City of Minneapolie will ccnstruct rdthin ite co rporate limita sewera
of adeauate eize to take care of the increase, s3uch conatrlc t�on to be at
� tne ex�ense of Hopkina.
Zoning and Planning Commiseion
of the City of Hopi�ins -2- September 2�+, 1951
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On June 7, i9�+5, t�e Villa�es of St. Loui e Park a.nd
Hotikina enterPd into an agree�,ent for the joint use and maintenance
of c�rtain sanitar� sewer facilities, wr.ich consisted ot iY.e main
trank sewer rur_ning from �levent� AvPr_ue in HepY ins to the sewerage
lift sta.�ion at Minnehaha Creek, and from there tr.rough St. Louie
Park and connecting with the Minneapolis system.
Thi e agreement betrreen Honkins and 3t. Loui s Park contains
the followin� p rovie�on: MThe said eanit�.r,y sewage facilities to be
ccr.structed for joint use by St. Louis Park and Hopkins are designed
to provide an outlet for sewage from Hopkins of not to exceed 1,100
G.p.M. �nd no more. Hopkins will ao limit the use of it s sani��.iy
sewer eystem that the flow of aewage into tne St. Louis Park aystem
on Excelsior Boulevard at the Village boundary will not exceed
1,1d0 G.P.M."
Thie limitation of 1,100 G.P.NI. ;�e�:ns tha; tre City of
Aopkins caa.r.ot dt�mp into thP Sz. Lo�a�s P£.rk eewers more than 1,10�
.-� gallons of aewage during an� one ninute of a twenty-four hour period.
I t may be th�,t at the pre sent time no harga i s done b� eaceeding thi e
limit if St. Louis Par;s doea not object, as I understand that St.
Lou�s Park has not yet com�,leted all the lateral eewers which it
e:r�ects to run into its main trunic sewer. However, if and wY:en theae
lateral aewera are connected and Hopkins ehould excsed 1,100 ga.11ona
in �.tty one minute ar.d St. Louie Park should e�caFd the capacity o`
its aewers du rin�, the same minute, the entire joint system would be
clog�ed up.
I haqe talked vTith tne en�ineer who was in cha.rge of thF
construction of the Hopkins portion o� this jcint project and he
is info^ma113� of the opinion that at the present time about one-a�1f
of the eewage running throu� the Hopkina Qystem is not se�rage at all,
bu� is atorn; and surface watera, and that our nroblem could be soZved,
at leasttemporarily, by the elimination of theae surface watere� HoN-
eu�er, �r. Laska is to meet with the engineer from Ralph D. Thomas and
�seociates in the near• fliture to discuss the problem more in LLeta.il.
Very �.ruly yours,
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Frank N. w'hitney �
C3.ty At to rney
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