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-2- <br />Special Council Meeting <br /> <br />Mr. Neilson indicated that his client, Mr. Menkveld, would be willing to <br />sign the roadway acquisition papers if the City would permit a variance from <br />Mobile Home Park Ordinance 7-36-A. Mr. Neilson's client is therefore asking <br />that the City allow 73 separate mobile home sites all with individual on-site <br />septic systems and water supplies. <br /> <br />Mayor Cox indicated that relative to Menkveld's original proposal for a mobile <br />home park the City had indicated that the only way the mobile home park would <br />be permitted was by following the Mobile Home Park Ordinance 7-36-A. <br /> <br />Attorney Goodrich explained that the City did in fact in 1972 pass a special <br />use permit to Mr. Gilbert Menkveld and also signed a purchase and lease back <br />agreement for the installation and operation of the central collection system <br />for sewage disposal. Mr. Goodrich also indicated that these documents had <br />been executed and recorded. <br /> <br />Mr. Neilson indicated that if the City were to contemplate condemnation <br />proceedings the relocation of the sewage treatment facility as required <br />to provide for the road alignment would have to be part of the condemnation <br />agreement and compensated for. <br /> <br />Mayor Cox indicated that he could see the need for a mobile home park or some- <br />thing of that type since the average cost of homes in the Ramsey areas was <br />probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000, which does not allow people <br />with a lower income adequate opportunity for housing. <br /> <br />Attorney Goodrich directed a question to Gilbert Menkveld as to whether he <br />could construct his treatment facility in any other area other than that of <br />the roadway alignment. <br /> <br />Mr. Menkveld said that he was not sure and indicated only that the present <br />engineering had laid it out for the proposed site. <br /> <br />Councilman Muller said his main question about having 73 individual on-site <br />septic systems as Mr. Menkveld proposes is the effect this would have on <br />pollution of the ground water in an area that is already quite densely populated. <br /> <br />Councilman Mickelson indicated that he was in favor of a mobile home park type <br />development since one person would retain ownership of the property and be held <br />responsible for its sightly appeanance. <br /> <br />Councilman Reimann indicated that he also felt that the mobile home park type <br />complex was preferable to the individual ownership. <br /> <br />Councilman Mickelson asked Attorney Goodrich how long a special use permit is <br />valid. <br /> <br />Attorney Goodrich indicated that the special use permit did not have a specific <br />expiration date and that the courts would look at the proposal on individual <br />basis and determine what would be considered a reasonable amount of time for <br />both sides. <br /> <br />Councilman Muller asked Mr. Menkveld if he had considered one acre home sites <br />in the mobile home park area rather than one acre mobile home park sites. <br /> <br /> <br />