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June 17, 1984 ./Ray Hanson Mike Fahey Dennis Forsberg Mugs Nardini Bev Scalze City of Little Canada -- Clerks Office The "Neighbors of Sch].etty Woods" last appeared before this Council in September of 1979. We were concerned about further platting in our neighborhood. We received what we thought was a favorable hearing before this Council. Resolution number 79 -9 -436, which we were led to believe satisfied our requests, was adopted. We felt protected. It has been five years since our initial concern. During these five years no requests for further subdivision have appeared before the Plan- ning Commission. We have not been called to any public hearings. Official plat maps show Outlot A to be drainage easement, wetland, and shoreland. Considering all this, we have not felt the need to attend every Council meeting or roam these marshes to insure that the resolutions of this Council were being observed. We continued building homes with picture windows facing the wooded outlot and groomed our yards to follow the natural flow of rainwater onto the drainage easement_. Recent observations have made us feel less secure about promises made. We now see "For Sale" signs on land that is clearly not platted as lots. Potential home contractors intend to fill areas platted as Outlot A. These "home sites" are now standing water and cattails. We see truckload after truckload of fill being dumped on our drainage system at the south of our addition. A road easement has been proposed for the south end of our dead end street; an area that is swamp - unless it, too, is to he filled. Prospective buyers of surveyed tracts of Outlot A are being told that it is a mere formality to have these tracts recorded as lots and obtain building permits. Upon reading the ordinances of this city, it is obvious that the process of subdividing land, especially wetland and shoreland is both complex and open to public scrutiny. Whether the division is done through Preliminary Platting or. Registered Land Survey, it involves the Planning Commission, Public Hearings, Impact Plans, and evaluation by the DNR. This applies to divisions involving residential lots or road easements. Also, any approval of divisions not permanently recorded is null and void after a specified time. In order to again feel secur.r in our neighborhood, we ask this Councf to insist that the City of Little Canada follow its own ordinances, guidelines, and resolutions pertaining to divisions of property and alterations of special lands. 0 4.