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CITY Or Sr. ANTHONY
HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MIWTES
• June 26, 1984
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Sundland at 8:36 p.m.
Present for roll call: Sundland; Vice Chair Enrooth; Secretary/Treasurer Marks;
and Commissioners Ranallo and Makowske.
Also present: David Childs, Executive Director; William Soth, Attorney; and
Larry Hamer, Public Works Director.
Motion by Commissioner Makowske and seconded by Vice Chair Enrooth to approve as
submitted the minutes of the H.R.A. meeting held May 22, 1984.
Motion carried unanimously.
Motion by Commissioner Ranallo and seconded by Secretary/Treasurer ;.larks to approve
payment of 51,745.96 to Dorsey f, hhitney for legal services during April on the
Kenzie Terrace 202 senior housing project and $1,097.50 to GME Consultants, Inc.
for the soil report for the same project.
Motion carried unanimously.
The data on the Metropolitan Council's rating on the 202 project had been included
in the agenda packet and Mr. Chi Ids reiterated that the Citi, Toject had been tied
• for first place with the Archdiocesan project in Rogers, Plinnesota.
In his June 22 memorandum, the Executive Director had addressed the three cash flow
studies done by the Springsted company for the proposed lialbon redevelopment project
at 33rd Avenue N.E. and Highcrest Road follooing the meeting with neighbors ie tthat
area. He said the studies had indicated the proposed 34 unit toHnhome project with
land sales proceeds of 54,000 per unit would be more feasible with a lower land
purchase cost and -higher level of land sale than the development of nine single
family dwellings or the same number of townhomes with no land sale proceeds, which
both required substantial tax levies for 25 years to meet cash flow needs.
Mr. Childs presented the revised plans for the townhome development which had been
modified to meet the objections of the neighbor across the street, Virgil Hietal,
who with Vi Dorumsgard, an opponent of the proposal spoke.
Mr. Hietala said his first impression had been that he would be facing eight
garages which would all be exiting on 33rd Avenue. He said, "with the revisions,
the proposal would now be the lesser of two evils", which he could accept.
Mrs. Dorumsgard who said she does not live in the home at 33rd Avenue N.E. where
her son -lives, 'because I asked him to", indicated she was .opposed to having 48
feet of her house facing the back of a townhome project. She thought the developer
could make enough profit building two single family homes on; the land which was
just rezoned for that purpose and only 30-townhomes on .the-rest.of the Walbon
property. Mrs. Dorumsgard reiterated the problems she has had over the years with
•the triangular shaped parcel in front of her picture window and said the Walbon's
attorney:is now stalling' the transfer of the land to her.
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When she suggested the City could buy the land from her to build more townhomes,
Mrs. Dorumsgard was told the economics for that or for building single family homes
next to her just weren't there. Her suggestion that Mr. Childs hadn't been fair
or honest to her were sharply contested and the Mayor told Mrs. Dorumsgard the only
reason the City had gotten involved in the project at all had been because of the
constant complaints over Uie last 14 years from her and her neighbors about the
types of activities on'the Walbon properties. The Walbon won't just go away,
Mayor Sundland told her and when she asked just what she would be looking at from
her front window, he said she would probably see the exterior of the townhomes
which would not be much different in appearance from the homes in that area, whose
owners had all agreed they could live better with this project than to continue
with the noise and appearance of the Walbon property. If that had not been the
case, the City would not be considering the next steps in the process of redevelop-
ing that problem property.
Mrs. Dorumsgard left the meeting after the following action was taken:
Motion by Commissioner Ranallo and seconded by Secretary/Treasurer Marks to take
the steps necessary to make a final decision on the redevelopment of the Walbon
Propertyfora 32 -unit townhome project by authorizing landbuilding and reloca-
tion appraisals of the subject property and to authorize staff to negotiate an
agreement with Dick Krier for consulting services on the project.
Motion carried unanimously.
Motion by Commissioner Ranallo and seconded by vice Chair Enrooth to adjourn the
Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting at 9:15 p.m.
• Motion carried unanimously.
Respectfully submitted,
Helen Crowe, Secretary
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