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%Wi4 <br />MICHAEL 1. FAHEY <br />c e . <br />July 15, 1977 <br />nona Donald Valento, Mayor <br />City of Little Canada <br />515 East Little Canada Road <br />Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 <br />Dear Mayor valento s <br />2923 LABORE ROAD <br />LITTLE CANADA. MINNESOTA 55109 <br />(612) 484-3261 <br />JULWVh 17# <br />6rya <br />is 1977 <br />CITY OF <br />LITTLE CANADA <br />rn April of this year, the Little Canada Council was <br />presented with a petition sinned by over 700 of its <br />citizense representing over 20% of the 3,292 persons <br />Vho voted in the City election of November 2nd, 1976. <br />That petition requested that the Council prohibit the <br />further construction of apartments in little Canada, <br />and specifically, a development of a lame 17 acre <br />tract located on County Road C for apartment purposes. <br />At a meeting of the Council hold on June 8th a 1977, <br />many citizens sppeared vp3cting tho Council to take <br />e€feCtive action to stem the saturation of our city <br />with apartment buildings. I spoke at that sating on <br />behalf of a group of citizens known as the "Concerned <br />+Citimnns of Little Carsaft. (CCtr.) . and urged the <br />Council to adopt a moratorium on the construction of <br />apartments until a comprehensive revisier. of our city'e <br />coning ordinances rnd Land use maps could be. accomplished. <br />It vas intended that revision of the Zoning ordinances <br />takc into consideration the future coratructtcLn of <br />opmrtme%to in Little Canada. The Council instead# <br />passer] a mation ds ciarimag a turn yiYr.r rori:torL m on the <br />cciti;tructxan of apartments becauss of an inrad'%gUSte <br />,%at er syeten in our vil"La3e and denied the application <br />of the builder/developer of the property on County Road <br />C for a building parrdit on that basis,, <br />It IS m secret that the owners of the property in <br />question have been oo'atemplatinq a lwouit against the <br />City fa- its der:jui of: thq appls.cation lom their pot.ea.r- <br />tial builder/developer for a building permits Thoir <br />claim apparently is t1jr-t the moriatcri= Ives daclared in <br />bad faith because the City could authorize the installa- <br />tion of a booster pump on the County F,oa:d r vori-=ter main <br />to provide adecplat-e sorater servsce to theA.r- property. <br />Original on file under: Planning: <br />See moratorium <br />CLERK'S EXHIBIT NO. 1160 <br />FETING 7.,,,_77 <br />