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Twin Lakes TIF District No. 17 Page 2 of 6 June 9, 2009 MINNESOTA STATUTE 469.174, SUBDIVISION 10 REQUIREMENTS The properties were inspected in accordance with the following requirements under Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.174, Subdivision 10(c), which states: Interior Inspection "The municipality may not make such determination [that the building is structurally substandard] without an interior inspection of the property..." Exterior Inspection and Other Means "An interior inspection of the property is not required, if the municipality finds that (1) the municipality or authority is unable to gain access to the property after using its best efforts to obtain permission from the party that owns or controls the property; and (2) the evidence otherwise supports a reasonable conclusion that the building is structurally substandard." Documentation "Written documentation of the findings and reasons why an interior inspection was not conducted must be made and retained under section 469.175, subdivision 3(1)." June 2009 Process In 2005, every one of the buildings found substandard in TIF District No. 17 was inspected on the interior and e�terior. It did not seem practical to re-inspect every building interior for the 2009 analysis, so we asked City staff to pull all building permits for any building within TIF District No. 17. Our assumption was that if a property owner improved a building between our inspections in May of 2005 and now, they would have filed for a permit at City Hall. We found that six building permits had been filed since June of 2005 within TIF District No. 17, but only one permit involved a building found substandard in 2005. The building at 2814 Cleveland Avenue North (TIF 1-3) received some minor electrical work, which would have had minimal, if any impact on our substandard findings. Taking into account the fact that property owners might have made improvements to their buildings without going through the legal permitting process, we conducted exterior inspections and took photographs of each building in TIF District No. 17 to see if any apparent improvements had been made to the buildings. Our visual observations and comparisons of 2005 to 2009 photos confirmed that no investments or improvements have been made to the substandard buildings within TIF District No. 17. In fact, it appears that the buildings have deteriorated significantly since June of 2005 (See Diagram 1 example).