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r -r Lino Lakes Charter started when a Lake Drive sewer project brought on special <br />assessments to the homeowners in amounts greater than their house values. <br />This happened many times in the 60's and 70's. After this project came along the <br />people of Lino Lakes finally had enough so 800 citizens formed a group called <br />Citizens for Responsive Government. This group hired an attorney and <br />successfully fought to stop the project. Thirty years later this project is still not <br />needed for that area. After this was stopped, Citizens for Responsive Government <br />became an organization dedicated to researching a Charter government for Lino <br />Lakes to prevent a recurrence of these runaway projects. A special election was <br />held in February of 1982, with over 80% voting for the charter, and to this day <br />every attempt to amend section 8, which covers improvement projects in their <br />own neighborhood, has been defeated by at least 70% to 80% only because of the <br />hard work of the volunteer charter commissioners all these years working to <br />inform the citizens of Lino Lakes of their rights. <br />Now that the city has grown from 2,000 in 1982 to over 20,000 today there is still a <br />need to protect property owners of projects they might not need and also to have <br />projects put in they might need. This particular Charter in Lino Lakes is the voice <br />of the people than can be heard between ELECTION DAYS Since it could take <br />up to 4 years to change local councils and mayor, a lot of these projects went <br />through without any votes from the benefitted property owners before the <br />charter. <br />Commissioner Rose Storberg <br />