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minutes of the regular ORONO CITV' COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON NOVEMBER 28. IW4 1 ’ i i 1- ^ Steven Valek reported that he was the original owner of the ta.x forfeit parcel and when he sold the land to a developer, a lot-Unc rearrangement was to have been done to aUow them to expand their rear yard. The developer lost the land and the rearrangement along with h It was never their intent to sell all of the land. Valek said he was denied the right to reclaim the property as a result of the tax forfeiture. Valek asked the County to sell to them approximately a half-acre to relieve some hardship due to flooding the proWy and the ability to maintain the drainage system, his property will flood. The County has recently agreed to approve his request and Valek is now ^ng for City approval. Valek said this acquisition will not interfere with the rest of the land. Moorse said the County is looking at expanding the area which is now a ^nd. Even if the Valek’s acquire the requested property, an casement would be granted to the County Callahan indicated he understood the acquisition of the tax forfet ^cel nothing proposition. Moorse said that although this was true, the County will allow the Valek’s to buy a portion of the property. This was worked out over the past two weeks. The Bridgewood Corporation is in the planning process of devclopirig a 28-lm subdivision over a 30 acre area, which is proposed to include the 9 acre tax forfeit pared. Mr Kryzaniak of Bridgewood said their company is sensitive to the environmental issues and the need for parkland. Bridgewood ’s proposal is to trade two acres of wetland ^ seven acres east of the tax forfeit parcel, the Soskin property for the tax forfeit pared. Kfyzaniak said the topography of the pared is flatter and more suited to a residential development. Another representative of Bridgewood reported on the layout of the devdopm^t plan^ He commerned that the Soskin property is hiBy . with a wet^ ar^ and would be good park land. It would be their intent to enlarge the wetland fw mn^ and construct swales to maintain proper drainage. He al^ noted an jf tlw S^n property were to become a park, it would have very good access fr^ Wildhurst Also, the existing platted right-of-way is now located next to a swale, and Bndgewood considered this not to be a good location for a road.