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BOARD OF REVIEW MINUTES April 22, 2013 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 BOARD OF APPEAL 3 4 DATE : April 2 2, 2013 5 TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : (recessed once ) 7:10 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council M ember Stoesz , Roeser, Rafferty, 8 O’Donnell and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 10 11 Staff members present: Community Development Director Michael Grochala ; City Clerk Julie Bartell 12 Anoka County Assessor Staff present: Peggy Nordrum, Appra iser; Randy DeJong, Appraiser 13 14 Mayor Reinert reviewed the process that would be used for this meeti ng. 15 16 Anoka County Appraiser Nordrum explained that after appellants are called on to present their 17 appeals, county staff will respond if they’ve had opportunity to review the appeal. The county has 18 received 22 phone calls regarding Lino Lakes ’ property. Staff was able to resolve the issues brought 19 up by those calls with the exception of two cases and they may attend this evening. Overall, she 20 noted, values in the city are going up and that tends to generate valuation questi ons. 21 22 The council heard fro m the following appellants: 23 24 Gary Uhde, Century Farm North 4 th Addition, Outlot A – Mr. Uhde explained that his appeal 25 relates to classification. The property has been and will continue to be farmed (he presented a letter to 26 the council explaining the far ming of the land). For taxes payable in 2014, the property has been 27 reclassified to residential but he would argue the land is not ready to be developed and will remain as 28 farm land. He is complying with state statute to meet agricultural standards. He introduced Mr. 29 Richard Gannon (sp) who is personally farming rye on the land. 30 31 County staff explained that the change from agricultural to residential occurred because a portion of 32 the land was sold off and the remainder doesn’t meet the statutory thresh old for farm designation. 33 The property must be at least 10 contiguous areas and this parcel is now 9.79 acres. Ms. Nordrum 34 added that the agricultural designation also normally implies more intensive farming that just rye. 35 The council discussed the a mount of the increase in taxes due to the classification change. 36 37 Mayor Reinert said he is sympathetic to Mr. Uhde’s situation and would be inclined to allow the 38 agricultural designation based on factors involved (poor economy, the developer’s good reput ation 39 with the city, close to meeting statutory requirement). The council concurred to allow the farming 40 designation for one year and a motion to do so was made by Council Member Roeser. Council 41 Member O’Donnell seconded the motion and it was adopted on a unanimous voice vote. 42 43 Pete Hitchcock, 448 Tanglewood Drive, Shoreview regarding his property in Lino Lakes 44 located at 355 Ash Street and the two acre lot next door – Mr. Hitchcock explained that he has a 45