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11686.1 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Mark Bernhardson, City Administratjr DATE: November 6, 1986 SUBJECT: Administrator's Information WILLIAM THIES - 530 Hanlon Avenue - Attached please find a co,,.y of a request the City received from the Thies family outlining two issues. One regards a hole in the property at the juncture of their connection with the sewer line. They are alleging that this iE a result of the project and the City's position that this was probably the result of the contractor's hookup to the line. G,-en the small nature of it, the City has chosen to fill in the hole once and from then on it will be the responsibility of the property owner. As far as the second issue the use of the road as a turnoff on 15 a dead end sign has now been placed on tho property. Staff will be following up with a letter outlining this to the property owner. 1290 SPRUCE PLACE - As you will recall this is a piece of tax forfeited property that the City has tried to work on since 1982. In the fall of '85 the City was able to get a releas, "rom both DNR and the County to burn down a delapidated house on a 50 foot lot frontage. Subsequently this has been filled in. Since this is lakeshore property under 51 feet there had to be a release from the DNR piior to the sale. (Had it been over 51 feet it would have required an act of the legislature.) The City is c,irrently in conversation with the Coun� j and will be bringing back a resolution to the Council for action on Novembe 24th. This is a resolution to list the property fcr private sale with two restrictions on it; it must be combined with abutting properties and it is not buildable. Additionally the City will need to recoup any money that it has expended in the demolition of the house and grading work to fill in the basement to make it safe. COUNTRYSIDE DEVELOPMENT - As you may recall back in June of this year Phil Miller representing tho Countryside Homewoners F.ssociation requested that the City Rork to have the developer complete the work on the Second Addition. Given the fact that the houses themselves were in bankruptcy and their status uncertain with the redemption ending in the middle of October, the staff informed the developer in early September that he had until the end of October to complete numerous items of work or the City would then seek to revoke their bond for that work. To date a significant amount of work has been done on the properties with only two significant issues outstandinq. The City at this time is working to see if they can be rectified in an amicable way and if not procerd to revoke the bond. The biggest issue at stake is the amo�ntaasphalt that was laid for the road, which under our standards which was to be 3 inches for this addition. ff