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ARDEN HILLS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES APRIL 14, 2003 14 . to support a dwelling. If the market value did not increase due to the project, they could not assess it. Council member Grant stated the question before the Council was what a buyer would be willing to pay a willing seller before the improvement and then after the road improvements, what would that be. He stated he did not personally believe a home would be built on that property and he was not sure if a road improvement would add to the value of the property. He stated he did not even know if a buyer would purchase the property. MOTION: Councilmember Grant moved and Councilmember Rem seconded a motion to remove the Lake Josephine Association property from the assessment roll. Council member Larson stated he would not support this motion because he did not think it was the right motion to make given what the City Attorney said regarding whether there was a benefit before and after. He stated if the Council stated there was no benefit to this property, then he found it difficult to find there was any benefit to any property in the City with a road improvement. He stated they could discuss an adjustment, but not a removal from the assessment roll. . Councilmember Rem stated her reason for seconding the motion was partly because of the development ability issue of the property. She stated she was not convinced that an assessment of this size was appropriate for this property. She stated she was open to negotiating the amount of the assessment, but she believed the amount of the assessment was much higher than she could support. Councilmember Grant stated he was not sure they could find a willing buyer for the property and he found it difficult to say there was a benefit to the property. Mr. Parrish replied in the assessment policy, they could negotiate a lesser assessment. Doug Hartford stated the City had permitted houses to be built on lots that it perhaps should not have. .