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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 4, 1987 PAGE 6 costs to the local government. As far as premature need for public expenses, services or facilities, the last two developments he has discussed with the City had no need whatsoever, let alone premature need for public services. Dale has worked with other developers and realtors to try to assemble land in Section 32 and 33, SW quadrant, and has found it is not feasible and does not have good enough access to get anyone interested. He feels he has received some mixed directions because when they came in with this development before, he heard different goals. One of which was highway oriented commercial which demands must have direct access to highway routes. On the other hand, we are criticized for not serving local community needs. Dale felt this development was meeting both directions that were given. Dale was told by a planning commission member he wanted to look at cornfields going to and from work to St. Paul because somebody owns the cornfields, and Dale felt the only way to preserve this was to buy it. Legal Counsel Robert Bell concluded that, after going before the Planning Commission, he can imagine the thoughts that are going through some of your minds such as "these people are coming out here to turn Lake Eimo into a Chicago". This is not the case. Under the laws of the State of Minnesota every landowner is entitled to a reasonable use of his land. Now the City of Lake Elmo originally was a rural area and now many people have come out here and developed beautiful areas and utilized the zoning requirements. Regardless of what you do with it, this will continue. Bell asked the Council to think about them asking Federal Land to follow the Planning Commission's recommendation that they could take their piece of property which adjoins Interstate 94 where 165,000 cars pass a day, Intersection of Cty Rd. 19, 4-lane trunk highway, part of which is inside a cloverleaf; and you're going to impose on that land your rural residential zoning and assume that people are going to build houses there like they have in the northern part of the community. Is the a reasonable use of this land? Lake Elmo has an opportunity to join with Federal Land Company and assist them in having a nice development. Or you can ignore it, turn it down, and state you want to put nice residential houses inside a cloverleaf. Who is going to use this land for that type of development? It is not going to happen, it's not realistic, and it won't happen. You have an opportunity now to reason with these people and help them plan and develop the property the way it should be and not to destory the community of Lake Elmo. Lake Elmo will remain a beautiful area, as it should, and the people that have beautiful reidential areas will continue to have these. But the piece of property that is next to an Interstate Freeway and a 4-lane County Road is going to be used in a reasonable fashion. Federal Land Company wants to cooperate with Take Elmo, but they cannot as business people tolerate a suggestion that this remain under a zoning classification that will put a residential house at an Interchange in an Interstate Freeway. This Council, under the laws of