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REGULAR Is4EETING OF LITTLE CANADA V1:LLAGE COUNCIL - AUGUST 10, 1960• `1'he meeting vras called to order by Mayor Melancon at ']:30 P. M. Present were: Mayor Melancon, Walter Coenen, Ed Loefflex•, Carl Spooner and John Vitale. Also present were: Richard Boss, Fred Memmer, Oscar Londin and Louis Jesperson. The minutes of the regular meeting of July 13, 1960, were read and approved. The Clerk read a Petition by L4rs. Caplette for rezoning her property from Class "A" to Class "C". `1'he Clerk stated that proper notices pursuant to the rezoning law had been posted and the matter was now scheduled for hearing. The Mayor asked if there were any objections to this rezoning. No persons objected. Upon motion by Spooner, seconded by liel.ancon, it vras RESOLVEll, 't'hat the property described. as: Subject to easement and except the West 162 ft. for road and except beginning at a point on North line of Lot 6, 92Q..1 ft. east from the west line on the Southeast Quarter (SE4) of Section ''>1, T. 3U, R. 22; tkrence west on said north line 254.1 ft; thence south at right angle 70 ft.; thence east at right angle 144.']7 ft; thence NE'ly 158.51 feet to beginning, Lot 6, Nordstrom's Twin Lake Addition, according to the plat thex•eof on file and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds inand for Ramsey County, be, and i.s hereby, rezoned from Class "A" residential to Class "C" residential. Ayes - 5 Nays - 0 Mr. Joseph Rosenthal and his wife appeared before the Council to discuss the matter of the drainage of Iona Lane through their lot, which is Lot 8, Oak Paxk. The Village Attorney explained that he had discussed this matter with the County Commissioner in charge o£ County roads, arxd also with Nir. Dean Anklan, an engineer from the County Engineer's office, and that he had also met on the site with both of these men and also with Mr. Rosenthal. and ft4r. Lee, the contractor.. The attorney also pointed out that the County of Ramsey had in 1942 acquired easements and constructed a drainage system con- sisting of a ditch running northward from County Road.C as part of the County road drainage system and that this ditch, as it appears in the records o£ the County Engineer's office, traverses the east end of Oak Park running along the east side of Hosenthal's :lot and then running diagonally across the northeast corner of said 1.ot and leaving the lot about the middle of its north boundary from whence it runs into Round Lake. `1'he attorney said that he believed that since the County had not placed its easements on record and the easement did not appear in Rosenthal's title that the County at least owed a moral obligation