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Mrs. Pangburn, 5299 Clifton, stated that they may be nice developments at the
beginning but the owners do not keep the mobile home parks up.
Mrs. Glidden, 2266 Oakwood Drive, asked Mr. Faricy if they were planning on
paying anymore taxes. Mr. Faricy stated that in his opinion they would
probably let the land forfeit rather than pay the taxes.
Andy DeGross, 8123 Woodlawn Drive, asked why the Village could not take the
property back. Mayor Rustad stated that it could possibly come back to the
Village if the taxes weren't paid.
Mr. Wiedewitsch, 5351 Raymond, asked where the kids would go to school. He
stated that his children are now already bussed away to a different school
farther away because of the additional kids from the mobile home parks.
Mr. Ames, 2271 Knoll Drive, asked if there was a water problem, and if there
was, would the state pay for the drainage. He felt that a mobile home would
cost more than a house in the long run.
Mr. Goodroad asked the life expectancy of a mobile home. Mr. Schnuerle stated
that they have some used trailers which are approximately 10 years old.
Mr. Anderson, 7913 Greenfield, stated that all you have to do is to look north
of us at a bad school situation, the Centennial School District. He felt that
all this development would do would be subsidizing the dealers.
Mr. Baumgartner, 7585 Knollwood Drive, stated that he would like to thank
publicly Mr. Glazer for the work that had gone on. He stated that he was
partly responsible for the poster that was circulated and he felt that it
accomplished what they set out to do, get people out to the hearing.
Mr. Stroberg stated that there are means to control the amount of school age
children. He also mentioned a new HUD program in which the federal government
would be paying approximately 35% of the rent for mobile home park dwellers.
Mr. Glazer stated that it was not possible at this time to compare single
family with mobile homes. The rezoning was a matter of mobile home versus
light industrial.
Mr. Nelson, 2745 Sherwood Road, stated that he could not take one city such as
Albert Lea and compare it to another as Mr. Stroberg had done in his original
presentation.
Mr. Hillsdale, 6951 Knollwood Drive, asked how the Council felt on the proposal.
Gerald Blanski, 1881 Woodale Drive, asked, a number of single family homes that
were constructed last year and if the permits were up or down.
Mr. Miller requested that any Council decision be postponed on the matter for
two weeks.
Mayor Rustad stated that there would be no postponement. That in fact if the
proposal was denied he would appoint a committee to approach the owners on the
feasibility of a golf course.