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January 10, 1979 ~1. Kramar stated ha doee not want ro delay Mr. lt doee want to facilJ.tate their own eexvicea. Cammiesion delay action until thei.r next meeting work something out. Page 4 Thoreon's development He asked that the Planning Co allow mora time to Cammieaion Member Burmeister p~lnted out that eewer services are not in the Planning Commiesion'e realm but rather in the Councils, and that they cannot lagally hold Mr. Thoraon up eince he hae met ail tha requiremente e~acifiad, and that the Planning Comm~esion muet act on the request, Mr, Kramer etnted that it ~.e the responeibility nf the Planning Co~nigsion to provide or ineure tha orderly development of the co~unity. Commiaslon Member Burmeieter raplied that Mr. Thorson has met all the r:.quizemenCa and that he hae gona through boththe Planning Coimniaeion and ~ity Council already , and the Planning Commiesion doeen't have any ground to stand on for holding him up. She recommended that the Kramers cone in and oee the Council. OfEicial Rose poinced our. that.Mr. Thoraon wae directed by the Council to cseate code canforming lots and ser,vice hie own property if he wanted to develop, and lie has wet tl~ose requiremente, lle added thae he did not eee any reaeun where the Planning Commieaion had strong grounde for tabling the iaeue, but the City Council could cor.sider the alternat.ivea. Chairper~on Hsake statQd she felt the aervices should be put iu the mnet ~~onomical way but that Mr. Thorsan has conformed to all the re4uirementa ~~~d met everything Che Council has requeated of him, Commieaion Member Glazer ntated he felt the Ci.ty Council would rely on the expertise of tha engineer and Buildiag Official. Co~iseion Member Qua^. aeked how Mr. Thoraon planned on handling the soil problems. Mr. Thorson replied that there is no soil prob.lem ~n the pro- perty he wtl! be developing, He stated thah it is buildable, and on the lar.ge lot, he will be building Che home on good soil and putting a gArden ia on the queationable area. Commisaion Member Fedor stated he felt the requeatshould go on to the Council. He also stated he was curious that i£ Mr. Thorson could afford to service his lote, wh,y the other property ownere could noC afford to alsa. Mr, Kremer replied that they would have to tie into tl~e system elsewhere, which would eignificant].y increaae their cost. He stated that he ltad zetimate3 the coat to be 51b,000 to aervice the two lote wlth juse sevTer. Commission Member Fedor pointed out that with the Kramers 232' on Silver Lake Road, the C3ty coet of sewer nnd wuter would be $13,400, and allowing for a 10 percent increase in cost this year, would be roughly $15,000 for the Ci,ty. ~ ~iaeion Member Foss atatad he would be in £avor o£ reaummending approval '~! the plat to the City Council, unlese the City could act prompCly r.o brittg sewer and water down the whole street. Hc poineed out, tteough, that the City had turned in dowm last year a£ter spending money on roil teets.