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ORDINANCE NO.355
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 820.31 REGARDING PARK
DEDICATION
The city council of the city of Medina ordains as follows:
Section I: Section 820.31 of the Medina code of ordinances is amended by deleting the stpieken
material and adding the underlined material as follows:
Section 820.31. Park Dedication and Open Spaces.
Subd. 1. In every subdivision of land hewing deve p ent f eside tia
industrial uses, a reasonable portion of such land, not to exceed ten percent, shall be
dedicated by the owners to the City for parks, recreational facilities, playgrounds, trails; or
public open space
utilities and improvements. Said The land must shall be suitable for public use for one or
more of the afer-edescribed purposes_ and The City shall not be required to accept land
which is not suitable; for one or more of the described purposes or which would require
extensive public expenditures to be made useable.
Subd. 2. The City may, at its option, require a cash contribution in
lieu of dedication in an equivalent amount or require a portion of the required dedication to
be in land and a cash contribution in lieu of for the balance thereof. In the case of residential
subdivisions, the contribution of cash in lieu shall be equal to 8 percent of the value of the
land. Notwithstanding the above, the minimum cash contribution shall be $3,500 per
dwelling unit and the maximum shall be $8,000 per dwelling unit. In the case of non-
residential subdivisions, the contribution of cash in lieu shall be equal to 10 percent of the
value of the land. In the case of subdivisions allowing both residential and non-residential
uses, the cash in lieu contribution shall be the total of the required residential and non-
residential contributions. The total contribution shall be calculated by applying the above
cash in lieu requirements to the square footage of the land in residential and non-residential
uses in the same ratio as the habitable square footage of the residential uses and the
habitable or leasable square footage of the non-residential uses bear to the total square
footage of the uses.
Subd. 3. Any cash contribution so paid to the City shall be placed in a fund and used only
for the acquisition, development and maintenance of facilities designed or used for one or
more of the aferedescribed purposes. Any cash contribution in lieu of land shall be based
upon the fair market value of the land being subdivided. Fair market value is defined as the
market value of the land within the subdivision no later than at the time of on the dato
presented to the city council for final approval, as determined by an appraiser chosen by the
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City. In detcrmining fair market value the appraiser shall net consider that the land has
been, or is about to be subdivided.
Section II: This ordinance shall become effective upon its adoption and publication.
Adopted by the city council of the city of Medina this 20th day of May, 2003.
lip K. Zilow, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Chad M. Adams
Administrator -Clerk -Treasurer
Published in the Crow River News this 9th day of June, 2003.
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