North Riverview Addition Homeowners vs. The Development Owners

Update from the SW MN Kriz Fam!

A few weeks ago we received a letter from the City stating that the owner’s of our development want to rezone a few of the lots to R-4. If that goes through, larger rental 4-8 plex units could be built. Well come to find out after attending the Zoning & Planning Committee meeting last week, they want to try and sell the lots on the other side to two businesses - Western Community Action Council and Head Start so they can build new office buildings and a 60+ some parking lot would be right on the corner coming into our area. This location is in the cul-de-sac area of the development on our side of the street. There would go our quiet little neighborhood and we feel the value of our homes.

We have everyone in the neighborhood on board and writing letters to council persons and will be attending the City Council meeting this coming Tuesday. This week we had a meeting at the Kriz house…we got to meet more neighbors and put all our ideas together and will have one person represent us at next weeks meeting, but all of us will attend. I felt so bad at last weeks meeting as one neighbors was so very passionate as to why they bought their home at this location that she started to cry.

POLITICS…what can you say…it’s everywhere even in small town Marshall.

The owners of our development are very wealthy retired business men from Marshall and they have a lot of clout in the community. One plus we have is the City Building Inspector is totally on our side and has voted it down

Well it just might be the underdogs taking on the BIG dogs – stay tuned for the outcome!!

Love and miss you all!

PS: having a surprise Birthday Party for Taylor with a couple of the neighbor’s tomorrow evening at our house. Both of which have daughters around Taylor’s age and they get along great. We can’t wait to see her face when she sees everyone. Lexi (one of the girls) has her Birthday they day after Taylor’s. Shaylene, is the other friend you met at the farm - she still talks about “Gary the cat”.

She is also on the traveling basketball team this winter and so she has been busy with that and of course with the boys :)! Ter is going to have his hands full…or maybe I should say he already has his hands full. Ha-Ha.