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Mounds View City Council August 23, 2004 Regular Meeting Page 4 City Attorney Riggs stated that the assessment would have to be approved by the Association and 1 not the unit owners, so the City had no ability to do an assessment project at this point in time. 2 he stated they would have to start over with public hearings and reaffirm the project. 3 4 Mr. Huntsman stated that 80 percent of the owners had approved it in August of 2001, so they 5 are satisfied by that. 6 7 Mayor Linke stated that when they did the project, all the ducks weren’t in a row at that time to 8 include that portion within this particular project, but hopefully it will get done with next year’s 9 project. He asked the Public Works Director if he could put something together so that everybody 10 knows what steps have to be followed. 11 12 Public Works Director Lee stated that he could do that. He stated that the homeowners 13 association had said they did not want the homeowners association assessed and they wanted to 14 assess each individual property owner, but that the City couldn’t do that because it was on private 15 property. He said the intent is to work with the homeowner association’s attorneys and get it 16 ready for next year’s project. 17 18 Mr. Huntsman asked if the two issues boil down to the mechanism for dedication and the 19 mechanism for assessment of the improvements. 20 21 City Attorneys Riggs stated that that was correct. 22 23 Nicole Humphrey, 5532 St. Michael St., stated that AXIS Corporation is opening a group home 24 across the street from her, and she felt that the City should have notified her. She stated that 25 there are going to be parking problems, among others. She stated that if they get their permit 26 pulled, then any other group home could move in there, and she is against that. 27 28 Council Member Quick asked if someone wants to put a group home in Mounds View whether 29 they have to come to the City to get a permit, and Director Ericson stated that they do not, and 30 that it’s a state licensed facility. 31 32 Mayor Linke stated he did not even know there was a group home going in there, and that legally 33 he did not have to know. 34 35 Ms. Humphrey stated that it would have been nice to have been contacted about it. 36 37 Dave Jahnke stated he didn’t see any problem with the City inspecting the houses for sump 38 pumps. 39 40 David Veenstra, 3000 County Road H2, spoke to the Council regarding the holding pond at the 41 Corner of County Road H2 and Spring Lake Park Road and the fact that there has been no 42 maintenance on the property at all and there has been no black dirt brought in, and that it is full 43 of weeds. 44 45