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-158- In the correspondence to the property owners sent from the city of Ramsey dated Octc',er 18, 2002 which as I have said, I did not receive, I find it interesting that the meeting it describes is October 22, 2002 only 5 days in the future and the 5 days includes the deli :ry time. Surely all of the property owners deserve more respect than this and better notice as we are paying for it through our taxes: especially for an ordinance that will rain our Jives rand our business. We contend that the city of Ramsey hoped to reach as few property owners as possible with such a late notice. In this October 18th moratorium letter there is a great deal of reference to how the city of Ramsey is endorsing MnDots vision, about the property on the north side of highway 10, about protection of a corridor and a preferred alignment for highway 10; all of this supposedly in coopera~tion with or in support of MnDot. There is only one thing Wrong with ali of this. MnDot does not require 'a moratorium for any of this, why should Ramsey need it? Brian Isaaeson, a MnDot represenitive who Sylvia FrOlik told us to telephone, stated that it was not necessary for MnDot or Ramsey to have a moratorium for highway 10. Again, does that mean that Ramsey has a hidden agenda?- 'Both the Anoka county attorneys office and MnDot recommend that the highway property owners should get attorneys. Because MnDot does not require it, in our opinion, the city of Ramsey has a hidden ag_enda. We need to know what that hidden agenda is. They are not being ' forthright. " We have dealt with the city of Ramsey-from the very beginning (1983) in a forthright manner and accepted information from' them in good faith. We trusted Ramsey and assumed the city of Ramsey had integrity when dealing with their residents. Now we feel we were wrong. . We also telephoned the Anoka county attorneys office which agreed that RamSey must have a hidden agenda as they did not expect highway I 0 expansion for 20 years. A moratorium is not necessary. He then Stated that if Ramsey wants our property it should pay for it at fair market value and just compensation ( what a novel approaCh). I I I I I I I I I I I I i I I I I I I