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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES SEPTEMBER 24, 1991 4 Bob Ungerman: We don't want to stand in the way of developing an area and are willing to pay our fair share. You cannot look at an existing business that is going to stay there on a 10 acre lot the same as a development area off 50 acres. Councilman Williams: Are you implying that there should be a different amount compared per acre. Ungerman: I don't know. If we don't have to sign up because the sewer is going in front of us and the previous owner put in a new septic system, we may not need sewer for another 20 years. Mayor Johnson; Our goal is to make sure that you don't pay before you would otherwise have to use it. This is one of the problems we do face. Councilman Williams: I have stated in the past I am very concerned about not putting the local businesses who are already there and operating out -of -business or for the farmers to have to sell their farms if they don't want to.. I don't want to force them to have to develop to sell their businesses. Richard McNamara: Could the City Engineer look at a 1/2 mile perimeter and break down the cost per acre and show us what the cost of this would be based on the different sizing of pipe? I think the sizing of the pipe is minor when you start running this down to the benefitted parties. The benefitted parties that are going to be in here are a small percentage. You will bring in more people into that commercial corridor. The existing business people are probably going to get more business to help pay for this. It should benefit them in the long run. Mayor Johnson: I would not be adverse once we establish this area is worthwhile and get projects specific to ask this very same group to talk about it some more. Councilman Mottaz: I don't think there is anyone on the Council that want to see any businessman be put out of business or any farmers be put off their farm. There are several financial options available to us. When it comes to the final vote there is not anyone here that would be in favor of running anyone out of business or off of their farm. Mayor Johnson: The property along the freeway is uniquely situated for some type of commercial development. Property within the area that has Municipal urban services available to it is much more valuable than property that does not have. This means we can go for a higher quality of development with some size to it which could provide the tax revenue that we want. Your concern of premature assessments is our concern as well.