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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 />Page 1 of 3 <br />18. AUTHORIZE BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT INVOLVING CITY PROPERTY <br />AND 1121 NORTH SHORE DRIVE <br />Rief said there was originally a vacation involved with the right-of-way to the east side of the property. <br />That was dropped but the planners brought forward this portion. The property owner does not have a dock <br />and wants to put one in. Lake Minnetonka Watershed District had a request to do a boundary lot <br />adjustment with the City. Using an aerial map, he said the lots on the left side are underneath the water of <br />Forest Lake. There have been a number of vacations to the south related to the shoreline where there <br />originally was a road; farther south there’s a bit of a curve as if the shoreline looked differently when <br />these were platted. This is one of two properties where the property line does not touch the water and the <br />City is being requested to do a boundary lot line adjustment and allow the owners to have access to their <br />water. <br />Walsh asked who owns the property in front of the lot. <br />Rief answered that the City does. <br />Walsh asked if it was part of a road before. <br />Rief stated there are parcels underneath the lake in Forest Lake and that is the City’s. <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 />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 />Crosby asked, when they touch the water, if they can legally say it is their water. <br />Johnson and Rief said they cannot say it right now. <br />Crosby asked if the land underneath the water is legally theirs. <br />Rief said on the other properties the land underneath is theirs. <br />Walsh said this is an easy situation to clean up. <br />Printup asked if their taxes were less because of the weird sliver that separates them. <br />Rief stated they are still considered lakeshore. <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 />Council Exhibit D <br />LA20-75