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CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />1983 STATE OF THE CITY MESSAGE <br />DUANE W. MC CARTY <br />MAYOR <br />At the start of this new year we in the city government continue to <br />be challenged by budget uncertainties and revenue losses in connection with <br />Minnesota's financial problems. In this situation we have managed to hold <br />our own without significant reduction of cervices by across- the board <br />economics and by better use of our people and resources. However, we will <br />almost certainly have to continue to improve City operations over the next <br />year or two in the face of what look like very lean times. We can have con <br />fiaence that further progress can be made if the level of cooperation can be <br />maintained which has been achieved over recent years within the City Council <br />and among Council, Staff and the City Commissions. Of course, we will also <br />need continuing help and support from citizens. <br />1 believe the needed cooperation and support can continue with the new <br />'1uncil especially since significant progress has been made in settling <br />Issues connected with new development which have received much attention in <br />recent years. As I see it, the principal questions during the past five years <br />have been over any claimed benefits from new development and the benefits of <br />keeping as much as possible of the character of Mounds View while shielding <br />the existing property owners from assessments to support new development. On <br />the positive side, out of this basic difference of opinion has come our Home <br />Rule Charter, revisions to Mounds View's Comprehensive Plan, ordinances to <br />protect critically needed open spaces and to limit development in flood plains <br />and regulations designed to ensure that developers are responsible for particu <br />lar problems that their projects can cause. un the other side, as previously <br />noted, we can now ill afford a continuing split over the development issue. <br />A study we now nave, which tends to indicate that new development is often a <br />lry questionable proposition when all the costs to the city are balanced <br />