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Council Minutes of 6/6/2000 asked what vacant property the city owned. Mr. Miller said he would meet with her because he has a list of vacant properties. Joe Bryan, 4610 Brendan Lane • He was very interested in coming to the meeting to see the result of the PLA ordinance. From what he read in the paper, in his strongest mind he could not see what the need for the whole legislation was. As he listened to Mr. Gareau address each of the issues, he still didn't find a need for the ordinance. He would like to congratulate the Council as a whole for not passing additional legislation that we are burdened with from every level of government. In his opinion, it was unnecessary. Joe Bouman, 23950 Gessner Road • He distributed a factual handout to Council concerning the Bradley Road purchase. He has been involved with real estate for many years and has done a lot with plat maps. He was very confused by the piece of property and how it fits together with the land that the city now owns and the two properties that, if purchased, would make one contiguous lot. Parcels A and AA are the piece of land which is being purchased. AA is heavily forested. The dash line is the river and the front area of the lot is where the prior owner scraped out the topsoil and created something of a swamp. That is what we're buying. If that is all we're going to buy and we're not going to do any more than that, why don't we save the $300,000 and go a quarter mile down the road and watch birds and walk around the woods at Bradley Lake because we own that too? It's our county. If we are going to go further, we've got some real problems. That's where the numbers up above come in--there is a low cost and a high cost for the land. There are costs for clearing trees, demolishing the house, grading the ungradable. (He believes this property will be proven to be ungradable). He heard about the leaf dump and the crossing light last night. The whole river has to be turned into flat land and that means a thousand fee of culvert. The ladies and gentlemen who own the two pieces of land, C and D, sound like they don't want to move for 10 or 15 years. In 10 or 15 years, we can buy their property and then we'll have this nice big piece of land that he and Tom Jenkins found out this afternoon will not accommodate the four baseball/softball fields. It doesn't fit with those two parcels. Parcels E and F on the map also have to be purchased in order to get the fields to fit. Springvale is important to him and a couple of years ago the Council was looking at the basement of the ballroom and one of the Councilman said, if he had known it was that bad, he wouldn't have voted for it. He doesn't want that to happen with this property. The manger of Barton Woods told a good friend of his that the Service Director told the manager that the city had already bought the property. Another friend of his told him that the owner of the property told one of his tenants that he had to leave because the city wanted him out. The other half of the house on this property is already occupied by a city worker who is maintaining it. Who on Council has signed an agreement saying they are absolutely going to vote for this? It sounds to him that an explanation should be given why people are going around town saying that it is a done deal. Mayor Musial answered that the property has not been purchased by the city. Service Director Bohlmann said, as a resident of Barton Woods Condominiums, he is familiar with the manager of Barton Woods 14 ~r