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Butts and Sandberg ATTORNEYS AT LAW 167 SOUTH LAKE STREET FOREST LAKE. MINNESOTA 55025 TCLFPHONE 6121646 62 STEVE L. BUTTS DAVID C. SANDBERG SHARON K. SILL September 14, 1982 Mr. Joseph Chlebeck, Clerk City of Little Canada 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, Minn. 55117 Re: My Client: Floyd J. Holzschuh /Holzschuh Addition I am writing to you concerning the problems my client has had with platting the above - described property located in Little Canada. My letter to you is based upon information gleaned from talking to the Ramsey County Recorder, the Ramsey County Department of Taxation, and your City Attorney, Mr. Thomas Sweeney. As I understand it, the Plat of Holzschuh Addition was finally approved in the fall of 1981 by your City Council. According to your Ordinance 1004.030(E), the plat should have been recorded within one hundred days after final approval or the approval itself is void. As I understand it, the plat is not yet recorded. My client finds himself unable to record the plat, and has been unable to do so since it was finally approved, due to the existence of delinquent taxes due and payable for the year 1981. In the years prior to 1981, the tax bill was quite low, on the order of $250.00 or so. In 1981, assessments for improvements to Payne Avenue, including sewer, water, pavement, curb and gutter and storm sewer were certified to the Ramsey County tax rolls, bringing the total due on the 1981 tax statement up Co approximately $16,600.00. The County Recorder in Ramsey County will not accept the plat for recording until the delinquent taxes due and payable in 1981 including the assessments certified thereon, are paid in full. The recorder has indicated that he must receive a certificate of payment on all delinquent taxes from the Ramsey County Department of Taxation before he will record the plat. In speaking with the Department of Property Taxation, they indicate that the full amount of taxes and assessments must be paid for 1981 before such a certificate of payment can issue. The Department of Property Taxation has also indicated, however, that if your city, by resolution, would agree to take the assessment portion off of the 1981 tax statement and apply it to the 1982 and /or later tax statements, then and in that event, a certificate of payment of delinquent taxes could be issued upon payment of the general taxes alone, a figure somehwat on the order of $250.00. My client has sold and unsold several lots in the plat on several occasions, and has not been able to close these transactions because the plat is not recorded. My client cannot record the plat until he has sufficient money to pay the taxes