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f <br />% <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION %Qc> <br />DATE: November ^H§96 <br />^ • <br />ITEM NO,\ <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Michael P. Gaffron <br />Title Assl. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />City Administrator <br />Item Description: Lafayette Ridge Tax Forfeit Property <br />List of Attachments <br />A - 919196 Letter from Bruce W. Palmer <br />B - 4/23/96 Letters to John Larson and Terry Schuler (Hennepin County Tax Dept.) <br />C - Staff Memo 12/8/94 <br />D - Plat Map/Topog/Overlay <br />E - Copy of Special Assessment Levy • County Road 15 Street Lights (1990) <br />F - Street light location map <br />Bruce W. Palmer, representing the Lafayette Ridge Homeowners Association (LRHA), requests <br />that the City release tax forfeited Outlot C, Lafayette Ridge to the LRHA, and that the City waive <br />the street light assessments levied in 1990. <br />Outlot C is a wetland and open space commons parcel created by the PRD plat of Lafayette Ridge <br />in 1978. Outlot C was intended to remain in the ownership of a homeowners association as <br />density credit for this subdivision. <br />The parcel went tax forfeit in August 1994 for reasons discussed below, and the LRHA lost its <br />right to redeem as of August 1995. Because of this and based on State Statutes, according to Gary <br />Hoecherl at the Hennepin County Tax Forfeit Department, the City has only a limited number of <br />options to help the Association reclaim the property: <br />1. <br />2. <br />3. <br />Release the property for sale to adjacent landowners only, since it is <br />unbuildable. <br />Activate the City's Housing and Redevelopment Authority and have the <br />HRA purchase the property for sale to the LRHA. <br />Apply to the County for a cancellation of the forfeiture based on an <br />incorrect method of special assessment, i.e. assessment of an outlot rather <br />than the bencfitted homestead lots.