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Resolution to Approve a Cost Allocation Agreement with the Regents of the University of Michigan for the High-Level Trunkline Sewer Capacity Improvements Project
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration for approval, please find a resolution to authorize a cost sharing agreement between the City of Ann Arbor ("City") and the Regents of the University of Michigan ("University") for the High-Level Trunkline Sewer Capacity Improvements Project, which will be installed along West Washington Street and North First Street to Miller Avenue. The agreement identifies each party's responsibilities and cost allocation for the project.
The University is proceeding with development of its Central Campus Student Housing Complex (the "Student Housing Complex") which consists of two phases. Phase I involves the construction of an approximately 2,300-bed student residence facility and a dining facility located on the former Elbel Field property bounded by Hill Street, South Division Street, East Hoover Street, and the Ann Arbor Railroad tracks, in the City of Ann Arbor which is planned to be completed in summer 2026. Phase II involves the construction of an approximately 2,500-bed student residence facility and a dining facility and other ancillary uses located on property directly north of Phase I bounded by Hill Street, South Fifth Ave, East Madison Street, and South Division Street, in the City of Ann Arbor. Details of Phase II are still under development by the University.
As part of its planning and preparation for the project, the University retained OHM Advisors to perform a sanitary sewer analysis for the proposed Student Housing Complex. The analysis determined capacity improvements to the City's sanitary sewer system are required in order to accommodate peak sanitary flows from the Student Housing Complex during wet weather events. The City is using this opportunity to not only improve wet weather capacity to accommodate the University's project, b...
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