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<br />Kennedy <br />Fifth Street Towers <br />150 South Fifth Street, Suite 700 <br />Minneapolis MN 55402-1299 <br /> <br />(612) 337-9300 telephone <br />(612) 337-9310 fax <br />http://www.kennedy-graven.com <br /> <br />Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer <br /> <br />Graven <br />C H A R T E R E D <br /> <br /> SAMANTHA C. ZUEHLKE <br /> Attorney at Law <br /> Direct Dial: (612) 337-9205 <br /> Email: szuehlke@kennedy-graven.com <br />April 29, 2025 <br />VIA E-MAIL ONLY <br /> <br />Ms. Sophia Jensen <br />Senior Planner <br />City of Lake Elmo <br />3880 Laverne Ave. N. <br />Lake Elmo, MN 55042 <br /> <br />RE: Preliminary Plat Opinion for Minor Subdivision – Berschens Shores 3rd Addition <br /> Our File No. LA515-156 <br /> <br />Dear Sophia: <br /> <br />I have reviewed a title commitment from Land Title, Inc., as issuing agent for First American Title <br />Insurance Company, with an effective date of July 25, 2024 (the “Commitment”). I have also <br />reviewed a preliminary plat dated January 29, 2025, prepared by Bogart Pederson & Associates, <br />Inc., which is titled BERSCHENS SHORED 3RD ADDITION (the “Preliminary Plat”). This <br />minor subdivision letter is in response to an application to the City of Lake Elmo dated March 19, <br />2025. <br />The Commitment purports to cover the following legal description: <br />Parcel A: <br />The West one-half of the Northeast Quarter (W ½ of NE ¼) of Section Ten (10), Township <br />Twenty-nine (29), Range Twenty-one (21), Washington County, Minnesota, excepting therefrom <br />the following described parcel: <br />All that part of the west half of the Northeast Quarter, and all that part of Government Lot 3, lying <br />easterly of the easterly line of the recorded plat of Dawcin Acres, as the same is surveyed and <br />monumented, all located in Section 10, Township 29 North, Range 21 West, Washington County, <br />Minnesota, described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the southwesterly corner of said West Half <br />of the Northeast Quarter; thence North 88 degrees 50 minutes 37 seconds East, assumed bearing, <br />along the southerly line thereof, 816.17 feet; thence easterly, northeasterly and northerly 783.76 <br />feet along a tangential curve, concave to the northwest, having a radius of 498.22 feet and a central <br />angle of 90 degrees 08 minutes 00 seconds; thence North 01 degree 17 minutes 23 seconds West, <br />along tangent, 44.09 feet, more or less, to the northerly line of the South 543.47 feet of said West <br />&