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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, June 8, 2020 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 19 of 21 <br /> <br />City is being requested to do a boundary lot line adjustment and allow the owners to have access to their <br />water. <br /> <br />Walsh asked who owns the property in front of the lot. <br /> <br />Rief answered that the City does. <br /> <br />Walsh asked if it was part of a road before. <br /> <br />Rief stated there are parcels underneath the lake in Forest Lake and that is the City’s. <br /> <br />Seals stated she looked at the Hennepin County Property Report and the map and said the whole situation <br />is weird. <br />Walsh said Hennepin County has a whole subdivision in the middle of the lake. <br /> <br />Rief noted when the City gets a listing of property it owns, those parcels under the water are included. He <br />said most of the properties extend into the water; the property being discussed is in the top part of the <br />triangle but does not touch the water. <br /> <br />Crosby asked, when they touch the water, if they can legally say it is their water. <br /> <br />Johnson and Rief said they cannot say it right now. <br /> <br />Crosby asked if the land underneath the water is legally theirs. <br /> <br />Rief said on the other properties the land underneath is theirs. <br /> <br />Walsh said this is an easy situation to clean up. <br /> <br />Printup asked if their taxes were less because of the weird sliver that separates them. <br /> <br />Rief stated they are still considered lakeshore. <br /> <br />Johnson said he looked up the information, and both properties were told they had lakeshore; in <br />particular, this property owner was told they had 100 feet of lakeshore. <br /> <br />Walsh asked if the City was selling the land or doing a boundary line adjustment. <br /> <br />Rief stated the City can do a boundary adjustment. <br /> <br />Johnson noted he is not okay with the south lot because they have to do a lot line combination, as nobody <br />wants to get rid of a right of a dock on a vacant piece of property. <br /> <br />Rief said the property to the south is owned by the property owner to the right. <br /> <br />Johnson stated both of the property owners have a dock. <br /> <br />Rief said they hold the same address so he wondered if they had the rights, although he did not know.