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11/7/01 <br /> Received letter with an offer of$293,100.00 for 4.4 acres. We were not happy about it, <br /> but with the threat of condemnation hanging over us, I decided to call Russ Royer a few <br /> days later. He returned my call on 11/15/01 <br /> 11/15/01 <br /> I told Russ Royer again we do not want to annex I told him the future road will have to <br /> swoop south to line up with the other end. I asked again about compensation for loss of <br /> Value and he offered none. I told him I do not want my zoning changed. He didn't think <br /> it would. He asked if we just don't want to sell the property at all. "NO! NO! Is THAT <br /> plain_enough??For sure if it caused us to get sucked into the city and pay more taxes, we <br /> don't want to..."He'll get back to me on the road and annexing question. <br /> 12/3/01 <br /> Russ Royer called and said we won't have to annex. They will not pay for loss of value <br /> or property income. At this late date he informs me the city will mow a couple times a <br /> year. What??? The weeds will take over. <br /> 12/7/01 <br /> I called Tim Rahy at Park Maintenance. He thought they would probably mow it 3-4 <br /> times a year. I asked who does the edges and between the trees?He didn't really know, <br /> so I called Andrea Reiner. <br /> 12/10/01 <br /> Andrea returned my call and I asked her how it would play out if we sold our place to the <br /> city. She told me they take care of the mowing and weeds. She wanted to meet us and see <br /> if they could use some of the nursery stock in other places. <br /> 1/9/02 <br /> Russ Royer called and said he had a concern with our desire to have it a park perpetually. <br /> He told me they could only do that if people are donating their property to the city. I told <br /> him you are trying to sell us on the idea of a park next to us but you won't guarantee it <br /> will always be a park. You could choose to use it for what ever you want if it is not <br /> designated. That is out of the question for us! He'll look into it and see if there is some <br /> way to work it out. <br /> 1/22/02 <br /> Met with John Weber(parks). He asked us to make a list of the nursery stock on the <br /> future park land so they could buy them from us. They definitely don't want the black <br /> walnut trees so he told me we could leave those in and take them out whenever we want. <br /> I told him that it would be nice since my wife wants to make rustic log furniture with the <br /> trees. <br /> 3/1/02 <br /> Lloyd Williams called. He apologized for not getting back to me sooner. "Everything is <br /> settled except for making it a park forever" (in perpetuity). "I'm sorry there is no way for <br /> the city to do that." I countered, "just put it in the escrow instructions." Lloyd said <br /> "We would run into all kinds of problems with that. Forever is a long time and there is no <br /> way we can guarantee that. If Russia invades and takes over our government we would <br /> have no control over maintaining this as a park forever." I couldn't believe it!! I said, <br /> 3 <br />