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March 26, 1979
Mayor and City Council Members
Oak Park Heights, Minnesota
RE: Official City Plat Map
In February of this year, Midwest Planning and Research, Inc. was asked
by Councilman Siggelke to check on the costs associated with preparing
an updated Official City Plat Map. The existing City maps are only
street maps: the official City Plat map is a 39" x 56" map which shows
all land subdivisions of record in the City. The plat map has not been
used in any planning work to date because it is not current. The benefits
associated with having a current plat map are:
1. Determining effected areas on assessment activities requires a plat
rather than street map.
2. For planning actions (rezonings etc.) requiring the notification of
adjacent property owners, a plat map would be beneficial.
3. For identification of addresses on a city wide basis, the plat map would
be desirable.
4. For use as a base map for a City zoning map, the plat map would avoid
unintentional multiple zoning of a single land parcel.
5. As a general reference it shows development activities as recorded by
property subdivisions.
The City presently has a plat map dated January 1973. To this map, annexed
properties and several new plats need to be drawn on.The quantity of work
associated with these new plats is undetermined until a review can be conducted
with the County Surveyors Office. It has been determined that for the land
south of Highway 212 half section plat maps prepared by the county do exist.
We request authorization of up to $200. to collect data from the County Surveyors
Office which will indicate the extent of changes to the 1973 plat map. As a
result of this study, we will provide the City with a specific proposal on updating
the plat map and a marked up plat map which shows where changes need to be
made.
Mayor and City Council Members
26 March, 1979 Page Two
It is not expected that updating the plat map will be costly since probably
Tess than 20 land subdivisions have occurred since 1973. However, we
would like to determine the extent of these changes prior to issuing an
exact cost to make the changes.
Respectfully submitted,
MIDWEST PLANNING AND RESEARCH, INC.
MINI
Tim Erkkila,
Vice President
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