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CITY of ORONO <br />Post Office Box 66 • Crystal Bay, Minnesota 55323 • Municipal Office• <br />On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka <br />December 11, 1990 <br />Julia Jensen <br />2700 Ethel Avenue <br />Wayzata, MN 55391 <br />Re: Alley Vacation <br />Dear Mrs. Jensen: <br />You had requested information regarding the possibility of <br />vacation of the 14' alley adjacent to the north boundary of your <br />property. I have enclosed the application for such a vacation, <br />along with the appropriate fee schedule. <br />The City's review of such an application would have to <br />address the following concerns: <br />1. The City would certainly reserve an underlying utilities <br />and access easement for the municipal water lines in the <br />alley. <br />2. Your surveyor would have to determine which adjacent <br />property owners would gain which portions of the land. <br />Normally when alleys are vacated, they are split between <br />properties within the original plat on each side of the <br />alley. If, however, the alley was at the edge of the <br />original subdivision, the entire vacated portion may go to <br />the owner on one side. It is possible that you would gain <br />the entire 14' if the alley is vacated. Your surveyor would <br />have to confirm this. <br />3. If you gain a l l 14' , then Kauf fmann' s prope- ty will only <br />abut a public roadway at a point, reducing Kaufmann's <br />required frontage on a public road to practically nothing, <br />since the continuation of Ethel Avenue north of the alley is <br />actually within property owned by Gordon Amundson at 2697 <br />Ethel Avenue. Also, vacation of the alley further eastward <br />would reduce or eliminate the road frontage for the <br />residence at 2691 Carolii.e Avenue. <br />Because of the above issues related to access and lot <br />standards, vacation of the alley is not necessarily a "sure <br />thing". The Planning Commission and Council might find there are <br />compelling reasons to not vacate the alley, hence you and/or your <br />neighbors who join in the application, would be risking the <br />$250.00 application fee plus your costs of having the necessary <br />survey work completed. <br />BUILDING & ZONING - 473-7357 • ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE - 473-7358 • PUBLIC WORKS - 473-7359 <br />ASSESSING <br />