HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976 08-04 Residential park charge increase tabled by council THE REVIEW Residential ar . e 01 4) ictica
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The possibility of increasing Total benefit to the city has been park development budget"has decreased expended for park development.
Maplewood's residential park charge has $43,078.88. to its lowest point in over seven years." Cost of land and development have
been tabled until the first of next year. The report indicated these funds have He noted that the development budget increased in the last 21 months, Miller
The council, at its Thursday, July 22 been used to grade,haul in black dirt and including the general fund and revenue said in his report,which recommended as
meeting voted unanimously to table an seed Playcrest Park. $2500 was used to sharing will total$46,375,of which $7,500 increase.
increase in the charge. establish a new lighted skating facility at was transferred from the 1975 budget for Councilman Norm Anderson said, "I
Ordinance 361, the city's residential Gladstone Park. property acqusition. This compares to a can't see raising this charge any higher
park charge ordinance, calls for the city Miller's report said the city's current general fund amount in 1969 of$47,955.10 now."
council to establish the average cost to
acquire and develop one acre of park land
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each year. The item before the council a >;
this week called for an increase in those
figures from $4,000 per acre for MN
acquisition to $4,500 per acre for mil
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acquisition. It also called for an increase
from $7,500 to $8,500 per acre for
development. These figures are used in
determining park charges made to
developers of residential land. "" � �
Written comments from City Manager �;
Michael Miller indicated these figures ,
amount to a 12.5 percent increase in `� , �
acquisition costs and a 10 percent in ; t 0 t,
crease in development costs. ' '^`
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The increase would see a jump from
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$317 park charge for a single family .n + °
dwelling to$353 and from$193 to$215£or .
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a mobile home.
Other increases would be from $155 to "S `
$172 for a two person townhouse and from
$325 to $362 for townhouses with 4.2 per- '"
sons per Unit. . , ..., .<,.'; A �
Multiple dwelling increases would be ��`�� � < ��
comparable. �,
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Miller's written report noted that * , , _
during the 21 months the residential park
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charge has been in effect, the city has VISITING-Miss Maplewood Vikki Andrews was one of 23 Midwest city queens visiting Minneapolis
taken in $32,414.62 in park charges and during the annual 10-day Aquatennial celebration held in late July. She toured several local
$944.26 in interest for a total of$33,358.88 businesses,including the Midland Cooperatives Distribution Center at Fridley where she got a look
in cash. at the first fuel truck to deliver the firm's products 50 years ago.
The city has also given Bob Tilsen
credit for $7,720 for 1.93 acres of land
adjacent to Maplewood Heights Park.
Approximately$2,000 worth of sewer and
water improvements were installed in
Maplewood Heights Park by Tilsen.