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<br />7 <br /> <br />MR. WIDERSKI: Is the street owned by Ramsey County? <br />I'm running right straight across - <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: That's not your property. <br /> <br />MAYOR DEMOS: I don't understand. Are you saying that up <br />from Larpenteur Avenue - <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: Ramsey County has purchased that property <br />from him. They paid you, and it was an exchange of funds, <br />and they got the property. With the property they also bought <br />all the rights to the sewer and water services and paid off all <br />the assessments. <br /> <br />MR. WIDERSKI: They gave you $8,000 which I owed you people <br />so I paid that amount of nearly $12,000. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: You had an agreement with them, and in the <br />end they were the owner and they paid us. <br /> <br />MR. <br />street. <br />line if <br />in that <br /> <br />WIDERSKI: What I'm driving at now - <br />Ramsey County doesn't own that. You <br />you're going to move the cul-de-sac - <br />if you don't want me to connect where <br /> <br />the street is a <br />go along that curb <br />I could connect <br />the sewer is now. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: You have not been assessed for sewer and water <br />for the whole length of your property. I understand you and you <br />understand me, but we're having a problem with the transition. <br /> <br />MAYOR DEMOS: You want to abandon the project? <br /> <br />MR. WIDERSKI: That's right, and I want to eliminate the <br />$34,000. At my age - before I put a shovel in the ground and <br />where I have to turn around and put a home up - there's none of <br />my wages went up since I retired. You get four or five percent <br />from your Social Security and that's about it. <br /> <br />MAYOR DEMOS: Could he connect - if he chose to build some- <br />where else, could he connect there? <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: No, because he has not paid any assessment <br />on sewer and watermain. His assessments stopped where the <br />watermain is and that's the (inaudible). Let's go back. Take <br />off the drawing that shows all the cul-de-sacs. If Mr. Widerski <br />and his fellow neighbors do not wish to have two cul-de-sacs, <br />he does not wish to divide his land and have a through street <br />there. We in the engineering department have no burning desire <br />to do it either. Some day there will have to be a road or <br />cul-de-sac to complete that section of the transportation system. <br />What we say is that we have two homes - Mr. Widerski's existing <br />home and if he rebuilds it, another one, and we have a home on <br />the northeastern corner of Western and Wagner which are without any <br />sewer service. They have no means of connecting to the sanitary <br />