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Feb. 20, 1f74 The regular meeting of the Lino Lakes Planning and Zoning Board was called to order at 8:05 p.m. on February 20, 1974 by Chairman Karth. Members present; Kelling, Rothbauer, Shearen. Absent;.Hill, L'Allier, Nadeau. Mr. Starr and tor. Locher were present as was Mr. Harier, liaison to the Council. Mr. Kelling moved to approve the minutes of January 16, 1974 as written. Seconded by Mr. Shearen. 'lotion carried. Mr. Wayne Herr appeared before the Board with preliminary plans for the division of 60 acres of property located at the North end of tlest Rondeau Lake Road. This is the former Erickson farm. Mr. Herr has divided the land into tracts from 21 acres to 10 acres. He would prefer to split this land using meets and bounds rather than platting into lots and blocks. He has had some boring done - in one area he had gone down 812 feet and did not find water; In another area he had gone 22 feet and the soil became mushy but did not run into water. Kelling questioned Mr. Locher about the use of meets and bounds for legal descriptions. Is it legal to do it this way? Mr. Locher read from Ordinance 21A which provides for the transfer of title on a parcel of land of 212 acres or more with the legal descrintion given in meets and bo unas . Mr. Kelling had understood that the Council was attempting to avoid land transfers by this means since most descriptions get to be long and complicated. Mr. Locher agreed that this was so. The County would prefer lot and block descrip- tions since it reduces the possibility of a mistake in copying the description. Mr. Herr felt that he would prefer to stay with the meets and bounds format since platting gets to be an expensive thing. Although there is the possibility that he may be forced to plat since the title to the land is a Torrence Title and the County objects to meets and bounds transfers on such titled land. Mr. Herr pointed out that some road work had been done on the Northern edge of the property within the Township of Columbus. Ho dosen't know if this is a Township road or just some grading that had been done. If there is no road, then he will take two of the 212 acres lots just South of this boundary and include them in two 2=5 acres lots just to the South making two 5 acre tracts instead, otherwise these two areas would not have an access. Mr. Herr questioned the Board on their feeling as the position of the road Going through the property. He had brought the road into the property some 300' East of the Section line. This was to avoid the possiblity of the street becoming a main thoroughfare. There was discussion the installation of the street. Mr. Herr asked if the Board felt that the curbing was necessary. He would prefer not to put the curbing in. These are large tracts of land and Mr. Herr felt that curbing would detract from the rural atmosphere that he wanted to retain. The Ordinance requires curbing but it also allows variations with Council approval. Mr. Karth reminded Mr. Herr that he would need a topography map.