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Chairperson Vogt stated that would allow us to go back to the well in the future, but this will <br />work today. <br />Commissioner Deemer felt 10 acres is too large on the piece we are excluding. <br />Mr. Goodrich suggested adding and excluding these properties which are not. <br />Commissioner Swanson stated the reason for this is for someone who owns a large piece of <br />property — do they carry more weight in the petition process. <br />Mr. Goodrich responded no. <br />Chairperson Vogt stated that one of the key things is we are losing money as a City and the way <br />the verbiage is being translated is not the intent - regional transportation development - that's <br />huge money. <br />Commissioner Deemer agreed and added that the second developer and so on would get all these <br />improvements for free. <br />Attorney Goodrich asked do you think there are some owners who can skim by here if we do not <br />say homestead. What we add at the bottom are owners of real property — that's homesteaded. <br />He would need to make sure that language would be constitutional. <br />Commissioner Deemer stated that if the land is not homesteaded, chances are the property owner <br />is not a resident of the City — so they cannot petition against it anyway. <br />Mr. Goodrich suggested "or owners of real property who have not homesteaded ". <br />Commissioner Deemer suggested reducing size down to one acre. <br />Commissioner Fischer stated there could be a lot of developers who pick up five acres here and <br />there and come in under 10 acres and they would be able to get around this. <br />Commissioner Swanson stated it's a pretty big chance that someone around you (if they own five <br />acres) will come in and do what you want to do. That's more likely to happen when you are <br />talking about 30, 40, or 50 acre parcels. <br />Commissioner Fischer referenced a development in Blaine as an example where different people <br />picked up five acres here and there that's why they have several builders in one development. <br />Attorney Goodrich suggested we could say "or owners of real property two acres or less in size <br />whose property is not homesteaded ". <br />Commissioner Deemer commented that he is not sure what size — he just felt that 10 acres is too <br />big. <br />Charter Commission/May 22, 2006 <br />Page 4 of 6 <br />