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MAYOR DEMOS~ This C2me to ~5,000. FROM THE AUDIENCE~ $11,000 is short of - MRS. HINZ~ Ilm on ? corner lot so I'll have to P?Y almost $8,000 so I can get ~5,OOO more on e2ch of the lots. The reason we bought was }:ecauge Open Space was developing. It was listed on the sheet because (inaudible) not reen built up bec2use Open Space was going to buy it. So we moved, cmd here all of 2 sudden - all of 2 sudden welre going to be citified. Therels much more prime land in Roseville th2t C2n be built up without resorting to this. FRmlJ. THE AUDIENCE: Where? MRS. HINZ~ South of L2ke Josephine there's 12 ?cres. J.V1..R. REILING: That heppens to be ours, 2nd for your informa- tion, weIll get $20,000 back ~here. We're developing that. MAYOR DEMOS: I'el like to wake it plain. The city does not do the developing. We m2rely put in the improvements at the request of the o~mers. I think there's 0ne thing we have to 2cknowledge. We cannot go on all0wing or expecting - letls put it this way - expecting private owners to go on paying taxes on th2 property, and quite a nurrber of years ago same of these people came bef0re us 2nd told us the amount theyld paid in taxes on some of these lots over a period of several ye?rs - paying scnitary sewer assessments which they gay they d&dnlt p2rticularly 2sk for or need at the time and you expect them to pay that to hold it open for us. Thercls only one other thing and that is that ....",e }:;uy it., and I ronlt know where ,the money would come fran. MRS. HIN~: I do own a back lot too. I'll be suffering a 108s. We just bought it at a good price and really I couldnlt 2fford to hang on to it and I don't want it developed, so it would be me going (inaudible) to the city ,so t.h?t Reiling, vlho owns such a large parcel, can get his few extra thousand. I'd just as soon see it be (inaudible) so it can be open space. MAYOR DEMOS~ The city would hove to buy the property in order to keep it open. -25-