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180 acres of farm property located on Highway #10 and Armstrong Boulevard from Mr. Sherwin Schenk. In 1983/84, they also purchased approximately 125 acres of property by Sunfish Lake, in Ramsey. On that property they built their home and barn. In 1985, they moved their family from Maple Grove to 15001 Sunfish Lake Boulevard, Ramsey. Sunwood Drive was extended from County Road #5 to Sunfish Lake Boulevard and in the process they had to relinquish many acres of their Sunfish Lake fam~ property for the road. This left their homestead farm cut into 2/3 and 1/3. Their home sits on the northern 2/3rds of the farm. In 1998, County Road #116 was extended through their farm on Highway #10. Their property was severed in two at that time. That property now lies east of Armstrong Boulevard, south of an existing residential neighborhood and north of the railroad tracks with County Road #116 dividing it into 2/3 and 1/3. In 1997, they sold their machine shop building on Ramsey Boulevard to the existing business, B & A Engine Rebuilders, owned by Bruce and Vicky Volk. Last year they sold the She~in Schenk farm house at 7665 Highway #10, the homestead located on the Highway #10 property south of the railroad tracks, to Mr. Clint Wilson of Chelsea's Auto. Their daughter, Tamara, bought one of the townhomes at Sunfish Pond Villas in Ramsey. She sold that home last year and at no time did they have interest in that property. Today they still own approximately 165 acres on the Highway #10 property and 118 acres at the Sunfish Lake property. When they purchased these properties they were already assigned several property ID numbers. There are various reasons for this to occur. One happens to be when roads are built through farmland, the construction of those roads result in dividing the affected property into section. Therefore, each section needs its own property identification number. At the present time, there are eight total PID number on their Highway #10 property and two PID numbers on their Sunfish Lake property. These, she believes, are the "parcels" that are referred to in a letter to the editor of the Anoka Union paper last October. Residents may have read or heard conversations about the properties the Kurak Family owns. There have been statements made that they have 17 parcels of land in Ramsey. Assuming that the word parcel means PID number, that statement is incorrect. They have a total of ten parcels, or PID numbers, in the City of Ramsey. Eight on Highway #10 and two at their home on Sunfish Lake. This information in on public record and can be verified by anyone. The property they have on Highway #10 is not in the MUSA. The City of Ramsey has told them that it is not scheduled to receive those served until years 2005 to 2010. At the present time that property is zoned commercial/industrial/business warehouse. The property they own on Sunfish Lake is in the MUSA and is zoned R-1 Urban Residential. This residential zoning is consistent with the developments surrounding it. Her husband Tom and she do not foresee any change in that zoning and assume it will be, at some time in the future, developed to match the existing neighborhoods that surround it. At the present time she and her husband are not in anyway marketing or trying to sell their home and the property surrounding it on Sunfish Lake nor are they anxious to sell their property on Highway #10. Tom and Patti Kurak are not developers and have never been developers. They are property owners in Ramsey, much like many other property owners in Ramsey, who have large lots or farms. The Kuraks are by no means the largest land owners in Ramsey. They do, however, own property in an area that has seen the largest amount of growth. When she ran for City Council one of her platforms was a quaint Town Square along Highway #10. She received many positive responses from residents to that idea. In her brochure she referred to land located west of Ramsey Boulevard, south of County City Council/January 23, 2001 Page 5 of 34