HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-08-01 Memo, Description of Property, Boat Slips, etcTO: Walter R. Benson
FROM: Alan P. Olson, Village Planner i
DATE: August 1, 1978
SUB.' T: Eberhardt Company Land Offer
Fagerness Marsh
The attached letter from Walter C. Nelson, Chairman of the Eberhardt
Company, offers to the City approximately fifteen (15) acres of marsh
south and east of Fagerness Point Road.
The property is entirely wetlands but does include an existing boat
channel and boat dockage area. Access to the docks is off Fagerness
Point Road across from 1837. As of today, there are eight (8) slips
in various stages of disrepair and four boats are tied up.
The plat of Maple Gate Inlet including twelve (12) lots was reviewed
and approved on May 8, 1961. No mention was made of the dock easements
or channel. Easements for twenty-one (21) slips were apparently drafted
and surveyed later. There is no record of any multiple dock license
either City or LMCD, although both are required.
The property consists of two tax parcels owned by the Eberhardt Company:
41317-1430; 1977 Market Value $790.00; 1978 taxes $36.48 and 42060-6400;
1977 Market Value $2,700.00; 1978 taxes $111.06. Taxes on both parcels
are delinquent to 1977.
If this plat were to be developed today, the outlot docking would not
occur and a conservation and flowage easement would be required over
the entire property.
Ay recommendation is that the City not accept property which is
encumbered with private easements, that Eberhardt Company attempt to
establish an association of the easement holders to own and maintain
the property, that a joint use dock license be required and that as a
condition of the license, a conservation easement be obtained over
the remainder of the marsh.