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Attachment a CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS 2077 W. LARPENTEUR AVENUE FALCON HEIGHTS, MN 55113 -5594 PHONE (612) 644-5050 FAX (612) 644-8675 15 October 1992 Mr. Roger Pittelkow 1853 Pascal St. Falcon Heights, MN 55113 Dear Mr. Pittelkow: I thought it would be useful to follow -up last night's council meeting Shirley Chenoweth's telephone call to you today with a written explanation of what the city staff plans to do to check the accuracy of the location of your removed tree. To guarantee the accuracy of your front property line, Mr. Vince Wright and Dr. Linda Treeful will meet you on your property and attempt to find the actual property stakes for the front of your property. If these are located, they can mark the front stakes and accurately determine your front property line. If the property stakes cannot be located, a surveyor from the city engineer's office will be asked to survey and mark the front property line to guarantee an accurate location and resolve this issue for you and the city. Once the front property line is accurately located, the city forester will use her expertise to determine whether or not the tree was located on public or private property. If the area is on private property, the city will proceed with assigning you the bill. If it is on city property, we will apologize and cover the expense of the removal. At last night's meeting you also requested that the front lot line on other properties on Pascal and Simpson be located by city staff to see if trees that were removed in the past were on public or private property. To be accurate in this measurement, it requires finding the property stakes. The public works foreman reminded me today, that although the staff occasionally locates property stakes, this is usually done for one of two reasons 1) at a property owner's request or 2) for a public improvement project that property owner's are usually aware of. Although we are occasionally asked to locate property lines to satisfy a neighbor's inquiry, the city doesn't do this without having a good reason, such as a violation of the zoning code, and without checking with the property owner. Since locating the stakes of a property usually requires digging down 6 "to 12 through the sod, it can temporarily disrupt the landscaping of HOME OF THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR AND THE U OF M INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE tale PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER TREE CITY UM