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Mounds View City Council August 8, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 7 or completely true. He stated that the facts have not been communicated clearly adding that 1 distribution of the pamphlet was a good move because it provided the community with the true 2 facts about the project. He stated that he is having a hard time figuring this whole thing out 3 adding that he would never sign his name to a document unless it tells the entire truth. He stated 4 that the golf course has never made money for the City adding that he is very proud of the 5 individuals who put out this pamphlet because now the people have the true facts about this 6 project. 7 8 Ron Morgan, 2656 West County Road H2 stated that he would like to quote a sentence from the 9 court order to the City noting that it states that the construction of the 66 townhouse units must 10 comply with all of the applicable provisions of the current building and fire codes noting that this 11 becomes the mandate of the City. He stated that as they move forward they should do their job 12 and do it well noting that as he looks into the past with this development it was not done well. 13 He acknowledged that there were a lot of different reasons and there were a lot of different 14 players involved in the process and they as an association had to obtain legal help and spent 15 thousands of dollars just to get legal title to their property. He stated that they had to threaten to 16 sue noting that it was resolved before it went to court. He stated that everyone has been involved 17 and asked who the bigger losers would be. He noted that the City would gain in taxes and the 18 developer would gain but the owners within the association are taking an extreme risk with no 19 gain. He asked the Council and Staff for due diligence as they look to issue permits that the 20 permits be done through the normal protocol, that there be a planning committee in place for 21 people to go to, and that it be on a PUD basis so that regulations can be outlined and included. 22 He stated that people have sat and waited for thirty years for a promised swimming pool adding 23 that if the City doesn’t document this and include performance as part of the security bond it 24 might not get done. He stated that it is easy to cherry pick and it would be easy for the developer 25 to pull out and what could the City do. He stated that he did attend the Watershed meeting and 26 expressed concerns that he did not see any representation from Council or City Staff. He 27 suggested that someone from Staff review the meeting. He stated that he was appalled at the 28 developer when the developer complained that the City of Mounds View would not allow them 29 to dump clean fill on their land. He expressed concerns stating that they were not sure that it was 30 actually clean fill in addition to the fact that this is not the developers land. He explained that 31 this common area is association land called common land and is deeded to the association. He 32 stated that there are six homeowners that homesteaded this and one person who owns some 33 vacant property are going to profit financially. He stated that for them to not see due diligence 34 through for the people living here would be wrong and it is his hope that the City would follow 35 the rules. He stated that if this goes through the City should condemn the property noting that the 36 City has great powers and questioned how the City ever lost the lawsuit. He stated that it was 37 good that the City pulled it noting that it was a conditional special use permit and pulling it was 38 the right thing to do. He stated that the thing he believes the City should do is condemn the 39 property, take it, pay the residents for it, and do whatever they want with the property. He stated 40 that they have had several years of hardship and wrong doings here and would rather see the land 41 condemned and give it back to the developer. He stated that he believes this would be the 42 prudent way to handle this situation. 43 44