A petition opposing the ALDI/134 apartment building project.

Whereas the Chanhassen City Council has approved a plan to construct an Aldi grocery store and 134 unit apartment project located adjacent to the Chanhassen Dinner Theater, and

Whereas the developer of this project, United Properties owned by the Pohlad family has stated that the project is marginal without being subsidized by the taxpayers of Chanhassen, and

Whereas Chanhassen tax payers will be liable for $1.3 million dollars from a TIF, $750,000 from the Met Council and $60,000 from Carver county, and

Whereas this project cannot proceed without this subsidy from the Chanhassen taxpayers, and

Whereas with the huge financial assets of the Pohlad family, asking the taxpayers of Chanhassen to subsidize this project is shameful, and

Whereas to be economically viable without a Chanhassen taxpayer subsidy, the project should be scaled back to make it sustainable without taxing the citizens of Chanhassen,

Now therefore, we, the undersigned citizens of Chanhassen demand that the Chanhassen City Council refuse and reject any funding of this project by the taxpayers of Chanhassen.

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