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• r» “4--,Sv i- ."•A! !^ * : ■t-. I i ~' f ^ ^mfttKKKKK^ / H. HAHILTO:: KOPAh 2965 CASCO ROIl^'T ROAD •;ayzata, laio;. 53391 CT7rr,‘^JJ-• ^ , ' A'* PLi.KIt’Il'IG COHKiI S3lOxX CITY 0? OHOKO P, 0. BOX 66 CRYSTAL BAY, HIND. 55323 Diane Dunlop John Guthrie Richard Rassel Geor,s6 Hosfi^ld Jo 311en Hurd Gloria I-'cDonald GentlSi-nen: ••’ith resnect to ootentLal fees over and above those alrea^'fy laid on our application of July 5, 1977, covering vacating of Ian'’ by Horan to the City of Orono and by the City to Horan, Ferry, and Kartzell; and covering proposed division of the Moran property, Mr. Muhich has been so good as to suggest that if we bring the special factors concerning this application to the attention of the Planning Connission, the llayor, and the Council, then the City Attorney might be aole to acvise tnat "public interest" and "Grandfather" clauses "tade it correct to waive separate fees to each of the ov/ners on the "Vacate" action, and the so-called "Dark Fee" on the division proposed at the request of the City, to create a separate taxable lot for each of the two resi'-^enoes existi'ig on the iloran property for 60-70 years. Following are the factors: 1. The application is in response to urging by the Zoning Administrator, the Planning Commission, and the City Council at meetings in connection with the (granted) Moran application for a garage variance, when the inaccuracies of the Flat at the Hennepin County Register of Deeds were made manifest by the Moran survey; and applicants were requested, as the City had. no budget to do this, to provide at the O'wners' expense, an accurate survey and proper lecgal description of the actual road and the proT^erties to be vacated, v-ith all three properties concerned joiniiir in this so the City could talie action to correct the City and County Records to conform v/ith location and usage existing since the road wa-s put in circa 1931* Tnis has been done per application, at considerable expense of time and money to applicants, to do something ’which it appears should have been done by the township or county back in 1931* -i: 4 ^ i 4 n dt 2. At the same meetings, the Morans ’were urged to divide the Moran property to •orovide a seiarate taxable lot for each of the tvro residences that have existed on «lk A the property since circa 19C5-1920, with one or the other being lived in by owners and the other rented since about the late thirties; and the only costs mentioned to the Morans in this connection were that of the application fee and the rather considerable extra survey and legal v:ork required as com-ared with continuing the present "Gran'-’father" status. Ye were not made a’ware at any tine of the possibility of a o2C00 "Dark Fee" penalty for doing vrhat the City had requested, utnil after our application 'was submitted, and feel that it would bv entirely unjust to assess such a penalty for simply drawing a line betvreen 2 residences that have existed here for 60-70 years and been paying full taxes all the tine - vrhile the City was using part of the property for the road, etc. Havirtg EUDiTitte'' a combined application and otheri-nse complied at owners' expense to the requests of the City, ve feel that it would be unfair, De Post Facto, to assess fees other than those oaid with the aonlication. Ye s’nall appreciate a proxipt decision on this request, and assuming the City agrees, as prompt action as possible on our ap)plication. ^ m \ir.\en OincePelv,. 1 X // r '’I h ■'■■■ t ♦ location of PROPa Address c3 / ^ Legal Description applicant Name :ant y Address aVNER Name Address Present Zonl‘‘g Zoning Ordinance J Specify Ordinance /A/ 0 > / Explain Request Re Extent of Non-coni 'Hardships to Prope Application cc Plat Map Sect] Sun^y (Sketcl Date \