10-17-62 Council Special Minutes

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MINU`PES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF 'PIiE VTLLAGE COUNCTL OF VTLLAGE OF LITTLE CANADA ~ -~ ~ A special meeting of the Council of the Village of Little Canada was held on Wednesday, October 17th, 1962 at 7:30 P,M., at the Little Canada Fire Hall, q.40 E. Little Canada Road. The following members of the Council were presents Carl Spooner, Mayor; Walter Coenen, Clerk; John Vitale, Joseph Hanker, and Edward Loeffler, Trustees. Also present was Frederick P. Memmer, Village Attorney. Mr. Rohleder, attorney representing Mr. V. Nelson, 70 Tona Lane, again explained the water problem Mr. Nelson has and the manner in which storm water seepage is affecting N(r. Nelsones sanitary sewage disposal system. It2r. George Gotwald and Mr. Donald Carley presented maps of the area showing the drainage problem and the proposed means of correcting same. Mr. Carley ex- plained to the people present the several possible methods of handling this problem. It was suggested that the ditch, which is to cross Robert Nelson4s property, which lies South of Mr. V. Nelson9s property, be run along the South side of the Robert Nelson property. Many of the persons who were present at the meeting, expressed the opinion that it was the responsibility of the con- tractor who built Mr. V, Nelsonos home to provide an adequate and workable sewage disposal system and that failure to so do was the responsibility of the contractor and that, therefore, this matter should not be made a public issue which would result in having everyone subjected to an assessment for storm sewer. Mayor Spooner expressed that in some respects this probably is an area problem rather than an individual problem. Mr. Vitale stated. though he did not feel it was a Village problem, that possibly the Village could do something about it. The majority of people whose property would be determined to be benefited property and would, therefore, be subject to assessment for the proposed storm sewer objected to it and said they did not vrant to be assessed for this improvement. After considerable discussion, it vras agreed to have Mr. Carley contact the County Engineers office and disouss this problem with the County A,hgineer so as to determine the Countyss liability in this matter. Mr. Rohleder, attorney for V. Nelson, stated that he would contact all people concerned and agreed to have a special meeting on October 24th, at which time a method of handling this matter should be arrived at. Nfr. Carley was asked to restudy his proposals and see if there was any possibility of achieving satisfactory results at a lower cost. Nfr. Memmer, Village Attorney, reported that the original petition for rezoning submitted by John Monn was inadequate for the reason that the law requires a majority of the owners of property located within 500 feet of the property pro- posed to be rezoned and that in the instant case there were 25 persons who could properly be designated as ovrners since they had interests in the land either as fee owners or as contract purchasers and a majority of this number would be at least 13. Since Mr. Monnos petition had only six names it was clearly inadequate for the purpose for which it was intended. Mr. Memmer recommended that if Mr. Monn wanted to proceed farther he would have to renew his petition and produce such a petition bearing the proper number of owners signatures.