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►9 <br />"BI:C'AUSE WF. CARE" Cisrcj;''JO <br />MINNEA O LIS AGE: AND 01"I" 111 ('NI i l' CE``I'ER ""V"---- <br />1801 NICOLLET AVENUE SOUTH / MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55403 / 612-874 5525 <br />Wphne H. Krvute, President <br />iktober 1.7, 1985 <br />Orono City Ctxax i 1 <br />c/o John R. Gerhardson <br />P.O. Box 66 <br />Crystal Bay, MP4 55323 <br />Dear Mr. Gerhardson: <br />Our office represents Mr. Merlin Halverson, 4175 Highwxxl Road. We <br />request that the City Council consider the following facts and take <br />one of the steps descri lx t below at its next meeting on October 28, <br />1985. <br />An unimproved alley abuts Mr. Halverson'; property. A certificate <br />of survey attached to this letter shows the location of the allev in <br />reference to Mr. Halverson's lot number 24. 'This alley was dedicated <br />to the public when the property was platLed in 19C)9. Apparently, the <br />original purpose of the alley was use as a fire l.arte. Whether it was <br />ever used for this purpose is unknown, txtt it is clear that it has not <br />been used as such for marry years, aril that it will not be used for that <br />purpose in the future. The alley serves no other important public <br />purpose either. It is located off a quiet, dead-end residential street. <br />rraxr, the street it is rot recognizable as an alley. It is overgrown <br />with trees, bushes arxi ',Al grasses. The City has made no effort to <br />maintain it in the Iiist and has r-K) intention of maintaining it in the <br />future. At the present, it is impassable by any four-wheel vehicles. <br />If it were improved, it would still, to too narrow for lautnching boats <br />or for use as a swimming In short, it serves no public purpose. <br />Mrnren� r, it has been used very little by the public. 'Ihe presence of <br />thick vegetat i ctn and the ahsclme of any foot path is proof that the <br />alley is not used by the general pciblic. Its presence, however, has at <br />times attracted late night par.y gars who Kivu caused problems for <br />Mr. Halverson. They gave came on snowmbi.les, cn motor bike.., and by <br />foot. liiev tktve txen vary noisy late at night. Thev have littered the <br />area with beer cans art] bottles. They have trespassed upon Mr. tialverson's <br />property, v.:nxializing his property and harassing him. Mr. Wilverson's <br />hcxise t% sittvtted approximately thirty (30) feet from the alley. to is <br />unable to sleep when these people coma through the alley late at night. <br />AN fOliAl ONf?R11'N,fY f u1`l UYf N <br />