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2 5/24/72 Clyde Rehbein felt that the square footage doesn't give you the tax base. A 3 bedroom home is becoming rarer. Two bedrooms and a garage does more to im- prove the tax base. Mrs. Sarner explained how she goes about assessing. She starts with the square footage of the house and assesses according to rates she has from the County. There are 9 different ranges of prices to put them in. "Things" and finished lower levels are extra. For example, if you took a basic 960 sq. ft. rambler with double garage, but nothing else, the market value would be $18,860. A 1,000 sq. ft. rambler without garage would be $17,080. Split levels are fig- ured on square footage of the first and second levels. Split foyers are asse- ssed on the outside dimensions. A finished lower level is assessed differently. A split foyer is assessed about 10" more overal than the same square footage on a rambler. You actually must see a building and what it is. Each one is dif- ferent. You can not out a percentage figure on the basic square footage as it relates to the final assessment. Bill Busch pointed out that our high tax base is due to the schools, not the homes. Mr. Menkveld said the square footage is stilt the main criteria for assessment. The smaller the home, the less tax base. He noted that if we allow 960 sq. ft. homes we'll get 235 government housing in our Village. Mary Gould noted that small homes give us more young children and thus an in- crease oin the school base. Clyde Rehbein said that the 'lending agencies put hggher standards on homes than the villages. Mrs. Swanson felt it was unfair that a developer could come in and tell the community what to do. We ought to go slow like Roseville did in setting our standards. Mr. Marier reviewed to the P& Z Board that we started looking at these recom- mendations two months ago. We came up with some good answers. We can't deal with one or two individuals - if we do we are letting down the people of Lino Lakes. Single Family Mr. Kelling moved to recommend to the Council 1,000 sq. ft. minimums on 1 story, l story and split entrys. Seconded by Mr. Nadeau. Mr. Karth felt that a split foyer should be set at a lower minimum or we'll have homes all the same. Mr. Menkveld said they had felt the same way in one village, but found it didn't hold true. The vote didn't carry: 3 no; 2 aye. 4r. Nadeau suggested attaching a garage recommendation to the motion. The concensus was that we would then have to raise the minumums to allow for garages. The builders said that very few homes are built around here without garages. Also, it is only slightly more cost -wise to build a double garage than a single. Therefore, they didn't feel it was necessary to deal with this in a recommenda- tion.