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<br />. <br /> <br />City of Arden Hills <br />Keithson Drainage Improvement <br />Objections to Proposed Assessment <br />Summary and Response <br />July 27, 1992 <br /> <br />In the spring of 1989, the property owners adjacent to <br />near the reconfigured ponding area approached the City <br />regarding its unfinished state. In response, the City <br />the developer to complete the grading in the easement. <br />agreed to do so. <br /> <br />and <br /> <br />asked <br />He <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />. <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />. <br /> <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 />