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Mayor Win. Brad Van Nest July 8, 1980 Page 6 Council, in deference to the Lauers, has stipu- lated that the carriage house must 5e torn down. This carriage house, which is located close by the Lauer's house, will, upon its elimination, further improve the value of the Lauer's house. It should be clear, therefore, that this is not a case of the Lauers being "nice people" and the Beckers being "bad people." It is a question of "Whose ox is being gored?" By placing the Rhode house close by the Beckers' house on a substandard lot, it will decrease the value of the Becker house, as testified to by three different people on three different occasions. By removing the carriage house and placing the Rhode house at a distance from the Lauer house, the value of the Lauer house goes up. The Council s,iould examine its conscience on this issue alone. Should this matter go to court again, I intend to pursue the issue of whether the dealings with the Lauers and the Beckers have been at "arm's length." 8) The Council is i norin�, its own Code and rulin as stated in Resolution 851, Paragraph 1)1 . This paragraph states that the existing easements are an illegal subdivision of the Rhode lot. For this reason, the Council decided that Rhode must extinguish these easements before he has a "buildable lot." My lawyer and I have argued continuously and without interruption that the easements are legal and that, therefore, the lot has been subdivided, is a multiple -use lot, and is, by Orono's own definition, an "out lot." It would be used by no less than three families -- Rhode plus the two easement holders --and any friends of the easement holders who were invited by the easement holders to swim, loathe, or boat on the SS feet of beach and docks granted by the easement. That the City of Orono would overlook the damage to the Becker property by the multiple use of the lot is unprecedented in the history of Orono. (I have researched this matter by reading the iiinutes of all Council and Commission meetin the past four years.) Since the City, in s own resolution (8sl)