Saturday, January 19, 2013

City of Saint Paul - File #: RLH TA 13-12Michael Ahrndt 1901Maryland

 
Michael Ahrndt 1901 Maryland, Melvin Carter, Horror Show via Kathy Lantry with Ineffective Counsel Jerry Hendericksen http://stpaul.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=37&clip_id=2426&meta_id=190357 We the Citizenery must fight Back www.sharon4council.blogspot.com Lantry must RESIGN MS609.43 (5 photos)
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Evidence vs. City St.Paul is conclusive  We the Citizenery must fight Back, Demand their Resignations MS609.43
City of Saint Paul - File #: RLH TA 13-12






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THEFT BY SWINDLE VIA CITY ST.PAUL
 
If the Video uploads push the lever forward almost to the end Wed.16Jan2013
Granted the outside looks bad, "but for" DSI and City Harrassment Why Bother. Looks like New Windows, Roof looks Good, Techinally NO ONE MUST SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE HEARING OFFICER MARCIA MORMOND Pretended Authority. At all times Material No Long Form Complaint signed off by City Attorney to Demolish and or Tax the Land of any Persons. Specifically of Indian Decent re:
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PIN (Property ID#) Number Street Address City
23.29.22.34.0157 1901 Maryland Ave E St. Paul





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                                    Michael Ahrndt of Dakota Decent has suffered Heinous Discrimination,Disparate Impact, We the Citizenery also call for the Resignation of Public Officials who Violate Pledge of Alliegance, OATH of Office MS609.43 for their GREED>
in progress or eyesore?
City council orders raze and removal of Maryland Avenue duplex

Linda Baumeister/Review
The St. Paul Department of Safety and Inspections has deemed the building at 1901 Maryland Ave. E to be unsafe. On April 4, the St. Paul City Council unanimously voted to demolish the building. Property owner Michael Ahrndt contests their reasoning and said he’s being targeted.

Linda Baumeister/Review
The St. Paul Department of Safety and Inspections has deemed the building at 1901 Maryland Ave. E to be unsafe. On April 4, the St. Paul City Council unanimously voted to demolish the building. Property owner Michael Ahrndt contests their reasoning and said he’s being targeted.

*photos by Linda Baumeister/Review. **photos by Kaitlyn Egan/Review

Above middle**, the city vacated a triangular slice of park property to accommodate Michael Ahrndt's property. However, Ahrndt says the property line still comes within 6 inches of his building, and his landscaping still sits on park land. Just above**, Michael Ahrndt, who owns the 1901 Maryland Ave. E property, waited for his opportunity to speak out against the demolition of his duplex at the April 4 city council public hearing.

*photos by Linda Baumeister/Review. **photos by Kaitlyn Egan/Review
Above middle**, the city vacated a triangular slice of park property to accommodate Michael Ahrndt's property. However, Ahrndt says the property line still comes within 6 inches of his building, and his landscaping still sits on park land. Just above**, Michael Ahrndt, who owns the 1901 Maryland Ave. E property, waited for his opportunity to speak out against the demolition of his duplex at the April 4 city council public hearing.
Click Here to view the "Revocation of Fire Certificate of Occupancy and Order to Vacate" document with the list of building "deficiencies."
Kaitlyn Egan
news editor

After a long battle, East Side property owner Michael Ahrndt will have to face defeat.

The St. Paul City Council unanimously voted for the razing of the residential structure at 1901 Maryland Ave. E. at its April 4 meeting.

It's safe to say the property at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and Hazel Street is approaching notorious status, at least in the minds of neighbors, community members and city officials who have come in contact with it. The city classified the dwelling as a "nuisance structure," and neighbors say it has had a rundown appearance for years.

"I don't contest that the outside is in need of a complete renovation," said Ahrndt, who purchased the property about 12 years ago.

He said he's completely remodeled the interior but stopped short on the exterior since "it's quite obvious that there's a desire to not have the house there."

Ahrndt now has 30 days to demolish the duplex or the city will do the job and send him the bill.

'Unsafe'

The City of St. Paul Department of Safety and Inspections registered the building vacant on Oct. 17, even though Ahrndt contended that he and a caretaker were still living in it.

However, the building, which city officials said was being used illegally as a triplex, wasn't registered vacant because it was empty. It was condemned by fire inspectors and registered vacant because it was unsafe for anyone to live there, said Robert Humphrey of the city's Safety and Inspections department.

According to city documents, a fire inspector discovered 29 "deficiencies" when the building was registered vacant, including exposed wiring and damaged electrical fixtures; a small 56-square-foot bedroom that was declared too small for sleeping purposes; obstructed exists and rooms with no windows; crumbling ceilings and walls; a permeable bathroom floor; a furnace tucked in a small hallway closet; and stashes of propane being stored inside the house.

Fixing many of these problems would require a building permit.

Safety and Inspections sent a notice to Ahrndt at a Scandia address listing the issues with the dwelling. The document also notified him the property's certificate of occupancy was revoked and the building needed to be vacated.

When Safety and Inspections checked on the duplex early in September, there were no vacant and condemned placards posted and the inspector noted there was a chance someone was still living in there, according to inspection documents. When an inspector returned mid-month, there were still no placards on the building, and people could be seen inside.

"Their claims of their condition of the property are completely not true," Ahrndt said in a recent interview. He said the dwelling has brand new ceilings, walls and floors as well as a fully remodeled kitchen. The unsafe wiring is all in the third unit, which was never used, and electricity to that part of the building was shut off, said Ahrndt.

In fact, Ahrndt claimed one of the inspectors wanted to rent the property from him, but then condemned the building two months later.

'Neighbors felt abused'

Inspectors started focusing on the property after receiving a citizen complaint last August, Humphrey said, but he knows of neighborhood complaints stretching back to at least 2005, when someone alerted the city about the appearance of the exterior of the duplex.

"There's a long history to this property. There's been problems a long way back," Humphrey said. "We've been working with (the property owner) since then to try to do something with it."

The last building permit issued for the structure was in 2009, but there have been at least eight complaints about the dilapidated state of the building since then, Humphrey said.

Complaints over the years have included reports of the home falling into disrepair, unfinished roofing, crumbling siding, a broken garage door and work being done without a permit.

"The neighbors felt abused. They felt as though he had very little respect for them," said Sue McCall, District 2's block club coordinator. "All the block clubs in that area said it ruined the area. It's an area of nice homes, except for that one. It's just really, really awful."

McCall has been working at the District 2 Community Council for fours years, and the rundown state of 1901 Maryland Ave. E. was one of the very first things she ever heard from neighbors.

"I had only been here for a few days and I drove around with fellow council members and that was one of the low points they treated me to," she said.

"For a long, long time he's had orders to repair it," said community council executive director Chuck Repke. "It just went on and on and on, and it looked like he was never going to get it done."

The North East Neighborhoods Development Corporation was interested in purchasing the property from Ahrndt when it became apparent he was struggling to fix it up, Repke said, but Ahrndt decided he wanted to continue with the repairs.

Property lines

Ahrndt believes the city's main issue with the house is that the property and portions of the house cross onto Furness Parkway green space, which is city parkland.

St. Paul Parks and Recreation has been planning improvements for the swatch of grass stretching from Maryland Avenue to Larpenteur Avenue, just west of McKnight Road, for years. Now, residents with encroachments, including Ahrndt, have until the end of May to remove them, or the city will.

In Ahrndt's case, the city did vacate a triangular slice of the park property so the line no longer cuts through parts of Ahrndt's building. However, Ahrndt says the property line still comes within 6 inches of the building at its closest, and his flowerbed and other landscaping still sits over the line on park land.

Ahrndt said he first realized he had an issue 10 years ago when he got a parking ticket for parking in what he thought was his own driveway. Apparently, what he thought was his driveway was actually an easement on the adjacent parkland -- city-owned property.

Ahrndt said he started to research the property and discovered that his lot wasn't what he thought. In fact, long before Ahrndt purchased the property, the home was built several feet over the property line onto park land.

He contended that years of phone calls, letters and emails to the city in an effort to learn more about the property issue and possible solutions were in vain. Ahrndt asserted that no one responded or would cooperate with him.

He halted renovations because of the uncertain future of the property and the city's lack of communication, he added.

"Not knowing the city's position, would any of you, would anybody continue to invest dollars?" Ahrndt asked city council members at the recent public hearing on the potential demolition. "I would like to request that we move back a step from the position that you're about to take that will be extremely harmful to the community and reputation of the council."

Ahrndt said the inspection reports contained "gross inaccuracies," and he didn't want his duplex to be demolished because of false information.

The future

Despite Ahrndt's plea, the council unanimously voted to have the duplex demolished and the rubble removed.

"It's in such a state of disrepair, I don't know if it could even be fixed regardless of the amount of money you had," said city council member Dan Bostrom.

The cost of razing dwellings this size is usually between $12,000 and $18,000, which is charged to the property owner.

Many homes like this one are poorly constructed to start with, end up outliving their usefulness and can become money pits, Bostrom said.

"These are the kinds of properties that begin to drag down prices of other houses in the neighborhood," he added. "A rotten apple spoils the barrel."

Ahrndt will still own the land after it's been cleared of the building, and it's up to him what to do next. He could rebuild or he could sell the lot.

Ahrndt said he doesn't know what he will do once the building is torn down, especially since the city has now left him with a property that he said can't be resold.

"This is theft by swindle," he asserted, adding that the city hasn't proven its case as to why the building needs to be torn down. He also said it has yet to be explained to him what the raze and removal order means.

If the city does end up demolishing the home, and Ahrndt doesn't pay the demolition bill, Ramsey County could seize the property. Then, the future of the lot adjacent to the park pathway could be up to the county.

"It's a prominent corner, and when Furness Parkway is finished, it will be a fairly significant corner," Repke said. He hopes that, whatever happens, it will improve the view at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and Hazel Street.

"There will be block club leaders who will be very happy (to see the duplex torn down)," McCall said. "There will probably be people cracking champagne bottles."

Kaitlyn Egan can be reached at kegan@lillienews.com or 651-748-7816.1901 Maryland Ave. East has been torn down, but its saga continues
The long saga of 1901 Maryland Ave. East took another strange turn on Wednesday, Jan. 16, when the St. Paul City Council heard the former homeowner’s appeal of a $12,000 demolition assessment. The house, which was declared a nuisance property and unlivable by the city’s Department of Safety and Inspections, has been torn down, and property owner Michael Ahrndt, of Scandia, has been left to foot the demolition bill.
Robert Humphrey, a spokesman for the Department of Safety and Inspections, said in an interview that the single-story house was structurally unsound and it generated frequent complaints from neighbors, who considered it a dangerous eyesore. Records show Ahrndt bought the property in August 1999 for $47,500.
On Wednesday, Ahrndt appealed the $12,000 assessment to the city council, without success. There were plenty of fireworks coming from Ahrndt, but the most fiery of them emerged at the end of his testimony, right before he left a kind of verbal condemnation on the city council in the native Dakota language.
His lengthy testimony is recorded on video, and listed under Item No. 42 on the City Council agenda.
Ahrndt told the council, “My answer here, this matter is now turned over to divine judgment. God’s way shall rule, and I believe you shall, for the sake of your souls, council, come to see that God’s thoughts are higher than your thoughts, and God’s ways are higher than your ways. The great spirit is absolute. So people of St. Paul, here me well. Awaken to what takes place right here before you. There is a great transformation underway. The wicked shall find no sanctuary. There shall be restitution. Reconciliation is near. The city of St. Paul, as you discover yourself under siege of the greatest of all powers, repent, I suggest. … Behold the power of God, lesser council. … I believe this self-serving behavior to be unforgivable. But that shall be your eternal business with God.”
Then came the condemnation in Dakota.
Ahrndt also asked the council members to resign immediately, and said “hundreds and perhaps even thousands of the extremely poor, completely despaired young children” would be deprived of his services by the tear-down.
He started his appeal on more technical footing. Ahrndt said “this ludicrous, preposterous, completely absurd assessment brought against myself, my family, my ministry and those I care-give to, this fiendish surtax with its egotistical motives” was three times the size of demolition estimates he received for the tear-down from licensed contractors.
He also said his “nonprofit foundation” purchased the small house more than a decade ago for care-giving and youth services. Green space associated with the Furness Parkway project directly abuts his house, and Ahrndt claims the road’s proximity made his house “unmarketable.”
Kaitlyn Egan, news editor at the weekly East Side Review, delved into the ins and outs of Ahrndt’s long-running battle with City Hall in April 2012, and it’s worth a read, here.
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City Council 2013-01-16_MikeArdnt_1901Maryland_LantrysResignation a must

City Council on 2013-01-16 3:30 PM - Public Hearings at 5:30 p.m.  1901 Maryland
http://stpaul.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=37&clip_id=2426&meta_id=190357

                    MICHAEL ARNDT DAKOTA HERITAGE_CALLS4RESIGNATION OF
CITY ST.PAUL COUNCIL KATHY LANTRY ET AL AND ATTORNEY JERRY HENDERICKSEN.__________ HEINOUS "TAKINGS" OF OUR PROPERTYS.
                       EMINENT DOMAIN DISPARATE IMPACT_ VS. VETERANS.

Wed 16Jan2013 Mike Ardnt 1901 Maryland Ave St.Paul,MN Demo without "due process" item42 Similar to www.lennycarolanderson.blogspot.com Item no 44 Ratification 559McKnight Theft by Swindle. 651-738-9696 Sharon Affiant also Victimized 651-776-5835 Illegal Ratification of Fees Theft of Car,Trailer,Personal Property etc.

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File #: RLH TA 13-12 Version: Name: 1901 Maryland Avenue East
Type: Resolution LH Tax Assessment Appeal Status: Mayor's Office


In control: City Council


Final action: 1/16/2013
Title: Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for Real Estate Project No. J1302C1, Assessment No. 132007 at 1901 MARYLAND AVENUE EAST. (Laid over from January 2, 2013)
Sponsors: Dan Bostrom
Ward: Assessments, Nuisance Abatement, Special Tax Assessments, Ward - 6
Related files: RLH AR 12-120
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Title
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for Real Estate Project No. J1302C1, Assessment No. 132007 at 1901 MARYLAND AVENUE EAST. (Laid over from January 2, 2013)

Tax Assessment Worksheet
Cost: $12,710.55

Service Charge: $40.00

Total Assessment: $12,750.55

Gold Card Returned by: Michael Arndt called in.

Type of Order/Fee: Demolition

Nuisance: Unpaid Demolition cost

Comments: Original Project No. J1302C and Assessment No. 132001

Ratifying the assessments for Demolition Services from July 2012 (NON-C.D.B.G). (File No. J1302C, Asmt No. 132001)


Body
WHEREAS, the Office of Financial Services Real Estate Section has attached to this Council File both a report of completion outlining the costs and fees associated with Demolition Services from July 2012 (NON-C.D.B.G). [File No. J1302C abd Asmt No. 132001] and the assessment roll including all properties for which these assessments are proposed for Council ratification; and

WHEREAS, the City Council's Legislative Hearing Officer has reviewed an appeal of this assessment and developed a recommendation for the City Council with respect to this assessment; and

WHEREAS, a public hearing having been conducted for the above improvement, and said assessment having been further considered by the Council and having been considered financially satisfactory; Now, Therefore, Be It

RESOLVED, that pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Saint Paul City Charter, said assessment is hereby ratified and payable in one installment.







: Michael Arndt

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Michael Arndt_1901Maryland_CitySt.PaulDemolition re:IndianLandReclaimation

File #:
http://stpaul.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=37&clip_id=2426&meta_id=190357
RLH TA 13-12 Version:Name:1901 Maryland Avenue East
Type:Resolution LH Tax Assessment AppealStatus:Mayor's Office
In control:City Council
Final action:1/16/2013
Title:Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for Real Estate Project No. J1302C1, Assessment No. 132007 at 1901 MARYLAND AVENUE EAST. (Laid over from January 2, 2013)
Sponsors:Dan Bostrom
Ward:Assessments, Nuisance Abatement, Special Tax Assessments, Ward - 6
Related files:RLH AR 12-120
Title
Ratifying the Appealed Special Tax Assessment for Real Estate Project No. J1302C1, Assessment No. 132007 at 1901 MARYLAND AVENUE EAST. (Laid over from January 2, 2013)
Tax Assessment Worksheet
Cost: $12,710.55
Service Charge: $40.00
Total Assessment: $12,750.55
Gold Card Returned by: Michael Arndt called in.
Type of Order/Fee: Demolition
Nuisance: Unpaid Demolition cost
Comments: Original Project No. J1302C and Assessment No. 132001
Ratifying the assessments for Demolition Services from July 2012 (NON-C.D.B.G). (File No. J1302C, Asmt No. 132001)
Body
WHEREAS, the Office of Financial Services Real Estate Section has attached to this Council File both a report of completion outlining the costs and fees associated with Demolition Services from July 2012 (NON-C.D.B.G). [File No. J1302C abd Asmt No. 132001] and the assessment roll including all properties for which these assessments are proposed for Council ratification; and
WHEREAS, the City Council's Legislative Hearing Officer has reviewed an appeal of this assessment and developed a recommendation for the City Council with respect to this assessment; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing having been conducted for the above improvement, and said assessment having been further considered by the Council and having been considered financially satisfactory; Now, Therefore, Be It
RESOLVED, that pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Saint Paul City Charter, said assessment is hereby ratified and payable in one installment.