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Mounds View City Council April 11, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 6 stated that he had presented some options to the City Council in the materials. He stated Mr. 1 Nelson was here this evening to speak to his request to waive the requirement. He stated that 2 maybe there should be a cash surety left with the City such that at the end of the year if there still 3 isn’t a development application, the City could go ahead and make the connections with the 4 funds that have been deposited. 5 6 Mr. Tim Nelson requested that the Council waive the imminent requirement that they hook up 7 to community sewer and water because this is recognized as a redevelopment site. He stated 8 that the house is a rental house, and the same family has lived there for seven or eight years. 9 He stated that the Building Inspection Department had found things that needed to be addressed, 10 and they had addressed them all, but then the connection to the water and sewer came up. He 11 stated that you don’t have to hook up to water and sewer if you have an imminent redevelopment 12 plan, but he recognizes that maybe there is some legitimacy to encourage or force redevelopment 13 of this property. He stated that requiring someone to connect to water and sewer isn’t going 14 to make the property redevelop, and the property is going to redevelop when the market is right 15 for that. He stated he has received a lot of calls from real estate agents looking for a lot to build 16 a single family home on the property, and that isn’t going to happen. He stated he couldn’t tell 17 them exactly what was going to happen, except that some form of commercial redevelopment 18 will happen, and it will happen when the time is right. He stated he developed the Mounds View 19 business park and numerous other projects around town, and he would like nothing better than to 20 do another project. He is interested in working with City staff and elected officials to try and 21 foster something that would happen there. He stated this isn’t a health and safety issue, and the 22 well and septic on the property have worked fine. He stated that they test the water quality 23 periodically with the Ramsey County Health Department, and it has tested out fine, and he 24 intends to keep doing that. He stated that more than likely the City will have to run new water 25 and sewer lines in the bigger pipe size for a redevelopment project, and it seems prudent to 26 wait for that connection, especially since there is no real need for it other than a Code 27 enforcement issue. He again requested a waiver, and that he would prefer to do it without putting 28 cash up because redevelopment will happen when things are ripe. 29 30 Council Member Thomas asked Mr. Nelson how long it would take him to put a development 31 plan together should he get a call even tomorrow. 32 33 Mr. Nelson stated it would depend on the nature of the use. He stated the plan can be put 34 together fairly quickly, and implementing it with users who want to be there is what can take 35 time if there is more than a single user. 36 37 Council Member Thomas asked if the property owner has any idea what kind of uses they are 38 looking for. 39 40 Mr. Nelson stated it is wide open to what is appropriate in the marketplace. He stated they 41 have interacted with City Staff on what they see as a commercial site of some kind, and it could 42 be a mixed use project, possibly even with some kind of residential element. He stated their 43 thinking was that it’s office or retail or a corporate facility type use. 44 45