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Ward 2 resident says platting delays left him paying months of costs
Summary
Resident Carl Terway told the council he paid for surveys and fees to combine multiple lots but experienced a months-long delay in the platting process and missed docketing at an earlier meeting, leaving him responsible for insurance, taxes and maintenance while the process remained incomplete.
Carl Terway, who identified himself as living in Ward 2 at 1908 Riverview Drive, spoke during the public-comment portion of the Dec. 1, 2020 Little Falls City Council meeting about delays in combining adjacent lots.
Terway said he purchased multiple lots adjacent to his property and hired a surveyor. He described a timeline in which a surveyor had numbers by mid-June, he paid $100 to start platting paperwork in August, and later (on Sept. 29) was asked for an additional $600. Terway said the required notice did not appear in the paper until mid-October, which delayed the planning-and-zoning meeting until Nov. 10; planning and zoning approved the lot-change request on Nov. 10, but Terway said the item did not make the Nov. 17 council docket and that the delay left him continuing to pay insurance, utilities, taxes and maintenance for the properties while the platting remained unfinished.
Terway described the delay as taking "almost 6 months" overall and said he did not believe city council members were aware of the difficulty he experienced; he asked the council to understand how the process felt from his perspective.
The council did not make a formal decision on the lot-line request during the Dec. 1 meeting; Terway said he expected it to be on that night's business docket. The transcript does not record staff responses with additional procedural details or a timetable for final council action.
Next steps: The transcript shows the item was expected to be addressed that evening; no formal outcome is recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
