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I I. Hunters Park Homeowners Associattlll!c':' - . .,." . -.1',_ , July 11, 1995 JUL 1 J 19% , The Honorable Mayor Dennis Probst and City Council (rei n~ ;'\\:.1::'> ~.d\-,_:~ c/o Mr. Brian Fritsinger, City Administrator , City of Arden Hills 1450 West Highway 96 Arden Hills, MN 55112-5794 I Dear Sirs: , The Hunters Park community within the City of Arden Hills is a unique development, It is a group of 68 single-family homes distributed among six cul-de-sacs. Intertwined , among the homes and cul-de-sacs are out-lots or "common grounds" whose ownership is shared equally among the 68 homeowners. Each home has an individual lot and is taxed independently of the other homes/lots in the development. Each home/lot has a garage , and a private driveway which empty onto a system of roads which then empty, at eight points, onto the City street, Benton Way. Each homeowner is responsible for the maintenance, repair and improvement of their home, garage, lot and private driveway. ,- Each homeowner is also a member of the Hunters Park Homeowners Association, The primary functions of the Association are to maintain the environmental aesthetics of the development, maintain the development's common grounds and provide for the , maintenance, repair and snow plowing of the internal roadways of the development, services which would be normally covered out of our property taxes, The Hunters Park Homeowners Association does not own any property. It equally assesses the individual , homeowners to fund the activities stated above. As the City budgets for $150,000 for road repair per year, the Association also budgets I $2,000 annually for internal road repair per year, As the City has needed to specially assess certain residents for road repair over and above the annual budget, the Association too has had to do the same to its residents for the internal roads, As with the eity, these . , amounts do not include snow plowing and removal. I In the past four years, the members of the Association have been collectively assessed and have paid over $22,200.00 for internal road maintenance and repair and an additional $14,400+ for snow plowing and removal. , Since Hunters Park is a unique development with distinct circumstances, the Board of Directors of the Hunters Park Homeowners Association asserts that the following two I items be considered by the City Council regarding the 1995 Pavement Management Program and other future projects affecting Hunters Park residents. ,- I. That a communication dialog be established early into any future project which ,