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White Bear lake - Mark Sather This question assumes the city has a polluted site for which there is not a responsible party with assets. Is your example of housing rehabilitation predicated on the assumption that the housing is on a polluted site? If a city does not have a polluted site for which the eligible uses apply or if remediation is accomplished through the responsible party or owner, you could not list project examples other than those listed in 383A.81 Subd.2. . White Bear Township - Bill Short I cannot think of any projects in the Township that could benefit from the ERF that haven't already utilized some other sources or combination of sources. ~ Part III - Other Comments Mounds View Should the County collect an ERF? From the City's perspective, I would think there would be a definite benefit having access to funds to offset the cost of environmental remediation. From a more regional perspective, it would also seem beneficial to have funds available to remediate larger sites within the County for public environmental and redevelopment purposes. Roseville Roseville has 16 redevelopment districts of which only 5 have been successfully redeveloped. Roseville anticipates due to the industrial nature of the sites that some level of environmental clean up will be necessary within all of the districts. The ERF funds would be helpful to fill the gaps where current cleanup funds are not available such as for acquisition, demolition, soil corrections and other typical redevelopment costs. The County should also develop a policy for use of tax abatement that can serve as an alternative and addition to Tax Increment Financing and as a key tool in the entire redevelopment toolbox. . Vadnais HeiQhts Legislation should be sought to allow funds to be used to assist in the cleanup of non-polluted demolition landfills, which properties will be used for economic development or housing. White Bear lake 1) Sunset date of 1/1/03 (383A.80 Subd. 4). Did the County receive an extension? 2) Priorities. 383A.81 Subd. 5 states "the first priority for the use of the environmental response fund created in this section is to clean up the site located in the City of S1. Paul known as the Dale Street Shops and Maxson Steel site..." How does this requirement fit with your plans? Could this be a S1. Paul sponsored bill that would collect a tax in the suburbs to be spent in the City of S1. Paul? What is the status of the State/Federal petro fund and the Superfund? It made much better sense to tax the sources of pollution for clean up than to tax mortgage registratiOnS. What is the source/use argument in favor of this tax? Cleaning up polluted sites is a good idea but this tax for Ramsey County residents makes little public policy sense. Even the economic development/job creation argument is weak in this case. The benefit transcends the county and therefore the tax or revenue source should also. The county is too small to justify this tax. . dJ.(p 4