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CITY OF PEQUOT LAKES <br /> RESOLUTION 19- <br /> RESOLUTION DETERMINING THE LEGALITY OF A PETITION <br /> FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS <br /> WHEREAS, on July 29, 2019, residents of North Sluetter Road, located in the City of Pequot <br /> Lakes, submitted a petition requesting that the City make improvements to North Sluetter Road <br /> by paving the existing roadbed; <br /> WHEREAS,pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.031, subd. 1(fl, the petition submitted <br /> must contain the signatures of the owners of at least thirty-five (35)percent of the frontage <br /> property bordering the proposed improvements; <br /> WHEREAS, North Sluetter Road is located on the border of the City and Loon Lake Township, <br /> resulting in half of the road being under the jurisdiction of the City while the other half is under <br /> the jurisdiction of the Township; <br /> WHEREAS, seventeen of the twenty-four property owners who own real property abutting on <br /> North Sluetter Road, all of which are located in Pequot Lakes, signed the petition; <br /> WHEREAS, the seventeen property owners who signed the petition own real property <br /> comprising fifty-nine percent (59%) of the entire frontage property bordering the proposed <br /> improvements on North Sluetter Road, and comprising of seventy-one percent (71%) of the <br /> frontage property bordering the proposed improvements within the City limits; <br /> WHEREAS, North Sluetter Road is under the jurisdiction of both the City and the Township, <br /> which results in any alterations proposed to North Sluetter Road being governed, in addition to <br /> other applicable laws,by Minnesota Statutes, Section 164.14; <br /> WHEREAS, the property owners who submitted the petition have expressed that they will not <br /> accept any special assessments for the proposed improvements to be done to North Sluetter <br /> Road; <br /> WHEREAS, the City Council, in receiving the petition for improvements, wishes to address said <br /> petition. <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, the Pequot Lakes City Council, based facts and circumstances above- <br /> described, does hereby resolve that: <br /> 1. The petition requesting improvements to North Sluetter Road is legally sufficient <br /> under Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.035. <br /> 2. Notwithstanding the legal sufficiency of such petition, due to the petitioners' refusal <br /> to pay any special assessments for the proposed improvements, the proposed <br />