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<br /> City of Arden Hills <br /> Keithson Drainage Improvement <br /> Objections to Proposed Assessment <br />. Summary and Response <br /> July 27, 1992 <br /> In the spring of 1989, the property owners adjacent to and <br /> near the reconfigured ponding area approached the City <br /> regarding its unfinished state. In response, the City asked <br /> the developer to complete the grading in the easement. He <br /> agreed to do so. <br /> When the developer attempted to work in the easement area <br /> the adjacent residents denied him access. Among the reasons <br /> they expressed for doing this were his apparent plans for <br /> the removal of trees and other vegetation. The residents <br /> then asked the City to solve the drainage problem. <br /> In the intervening time the City has developed several <br /> solutions to the problem, and each has been subject to <br /> criticism by the area's residents. The City has also pumped <br /> excess water from the pond a number of times. <br /> The City's engineers have now developed a plan for a <br /> drainage system that seems acceptable to the residents and <br /> goes beyond what had originally been slated for the site. <br /> Rather than flowing overland, storm water will be carried in <br /> a pipe to an existing pond southwest of the site. Upgraded <br /> metering appliances are included in the plan, as are pond <br />. improvements that minimize the removal of vegetation. <br /> The improved drainage system will be installed in a easement <br /> which is yet to be acquired from George Reiling, the <br /> original owner of the platted area, and current owner of the <br /> property to the south and west. Apparently, the original <br /> plans called for drainage to flow overland across this same <br /> property, but no formal easement had been acquired. It may <br /> be that the developer assumed the existence of an easement <br /> due to the water's previous course across this property. <br /> Regardless, the City must now acquire an easement for this <br /> improved drainage system. <br /> This improvement has been ordered. Benefit, in the amount <br /> of $1,500 per lot, is judged to be provided by this <br /> improvement. Objections from those residents having the <br /> potential of being assessed for this benefit were heard at a <br /> public hearing. Their objections and the City's findings <br /> regarding them are summarized below. Residents are listed <br /> in order of ascending street addresses. Objections should <br /> be regarded as having been provided in writing unless <br /> otherwise noted. Most oral objections were answered at the <br /> June 8, 1992 public hearing, and most of the written <br /> objections were restatements of those made orally. <br />. <br /> Page: 2 <br />