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r • report before any building permits can be issued. The certificate of survey and resolution of approving a minor subdivision and easement documents all be reported to Ramsey County. I would repeat just for the record that according to the City code, according to Ramsey County assessor's office records, the appropriate park dedication fee in this minor subdivision was $1574. Staff is recommending that you approve 5305 resolution, and resident Dan Danielson is in the audience if there are any questions. Dan Danielson, 8444 Greenwood Drive. Mr. Danielson requests consideration on the amount of the actual park fee being quite high. There have been prior subdivisions on this property in the past. They have been residents of the City of Mounds View since 1962. I understand many of the adjoining communities and also properties by the acre are approximately around $700 for a typical park fee. Mr. Daniel requests consideration of decreasing the amount of the actual park fee. Mayor Coughlin asks Mr. Long if there is something in the code. Mr. Long states he looked at the code and it is not an option. It is a specified amount in the ordinance. Five percent of market value on less than an acre, and 10 percent on parcels bigger than an acre. Mayor Coughlin stated this is the code and this is what must be paid. Mayor Coughlin sympathizes with six prior subdivisions in the same lot that is occurring. This is the code and we are here to enforce the code. David Jahnke, 8428 Eastwood Road. Question directed to the Mayor to ask the attorney if the park fee has ever been challenged, or any court case about a park fee? Mr. Long indicated not to his knowledge in the City of Mounds View. There have been challenges to park dedication fees in other cities, I think typically, it was happening with commercial developers buying to require that the City show the basis for arriving at the cash value. Mr. Long. states the cases he is aware of, in Minnesota, all City ordinances have been upheld. The cities have authority to do it, but the percentage is what has been called to question in different cases. In some cities there are higher requirements for dollar values and percentages, and that has been subject to litigation. To Mr. Longs knowledge, they have all been successfully upheld. Julie Olson, 2663 Lake Court Circle. Ms. Olson stated in records to the park dedication dollar amount, when the City just got done doing seven subdivisions on the O'Neil property, did Mrs. O'Neil then, in fact, pay that same amount, times seven, for the property where the movie theater was going to be? Mr. Whiting stated there was a park dedication fee of over $102,000. Mr. Quick asks, "On this piece of property, have they ever paid for park dedication fee?"