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27 <br /> To: Michael J. Morrison <br /> City Manager <br /> St. Anthony Village <br /> From: Bob and Dolores Kluwe <br /> 2600 34th Ave N.E. <br /> St Anthony Village, MN 55418 <br /> Date: February 3, 2003 <br /> Re: Proposed assessment for street repairs <br /> We recently received our proposed assessment for the street repairs to be made in <br /> 2003. The assessment and the method of assessment seem very unfair so we feel we must <br /> file a protest. We do not understand why any individual lot owners should be.assessed <br /> for such repairs when they are being made to public property. Our understanding is that <br /> we do not really own or control the fifteen feet of our lot that borders the street. As far <br /> as I know if we wanted to put up a fence, it would have to be fifteen feet back from the <br /> curb. If the city snow crews want to remove snow from those fifteen feet and scrape off <br /> the sod in the process, they can do so without our permission. It seems that the village <br /> exercises more ownership and control of the curbs and the fifteen bordering feet than we <br /> do. <br /> We feel that the expense for any needed repairs to streets, curbs, sewers, and <br /> utility lines should be shared by all property owners using or benefiting from them. <br /> Furthermore, we do not understand why comer lots are assessed on both <br /> frontage and side lengths while non-comer lots are assessed only according to their <br /> frontages. There are so many disavantages to living on a comer in St. Anthony Village <br /> that we feel we should actually be assessed at a lower rate. The disadvantages include <br /> increased traffic noise, increased litter, increased maintenance, and, of course, less <br /> privacy. <br /> Traffic noise: <br /> One day last week we had 1.5 inches of snow. The plows came through at 1:30 <br /> A.M. and made at least four passes in the next hour. We get their clatter on both ends of <br /> Edward Street and 34th Ave N.E. <br /> A few hours later, the garbage trucks and school buses rattle by. Again we <br /> experience the screeching stops on both streets. <br /> We no longer seem to have any noise ordinances in force in St Anthony Village as <br /> evidenced by the mufflers (or lack of them) on the vehicles that travel by and the bass <br /> cannons blasting from so many car trunks. Since our corner has a 4-way stop sign, we <br /> get an extra serenade from the vehicles that bother to stop and then roar off. Besides the <br /> 1 <br />