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1184 would like to suggest therefore that possibly the most in- telligent suggestion and the most worth while su~~;estion was the one I did hear about getting an expert planner in here. Gettin~- somebody who could really look over the whole situation in the Village a.s T have been advised this Council has seriously consid- ered from time to time. Apparently this is what the citizens desire and I want to add, on behalf of the proposed developer, we have full confidence in such a procedure As we look at it, as outsiders, and we can only speak as outsiders, at least at the moment as outsiders, we feel that to characterize the zoning as set forth in the original ordinance which I assume is accurate, I am looking at a photostatic copy, dated the 11th of Octobdr, 1949, as far as any uniform length upon Larpenteur is to take such a small sample as to make it impossible to make any generalization. It appears you have one side of the street from Pascal to Snelling zoned commercial on the north side and on the south side. The block from Arona to Snelling is about 3~4 commercial. On the north side, that is the side where we are standing, it appears that from 200 to 300 feet is commercial and on the sodth side it appears to be cut up. ~,t Snelling, its one distance, back its a smaller distance and then across the street over here, the property under consideration, it is a larger dis- tance. The point I am making is that it hardly seems possible to discuss this issue in terms of there having been a continuous strip and suddenly a break in it when what we are talking about is 3 or 4 blocks and the exceptions are just about as lame a percentage of the zoningof business as the strip is. In any event, it does appear that since this Village existed this property has been listed in this fashion and it further appears that the advocate for rezoning this property out from under the owner agrees whole-heartedly that spot zoning, spot rezoning, is, in his opinion, illegal, if not immoral, and to a certain extent unethical, that is, it is to a certain extent to a ~~reat number of people a breach of the moral contract between individuals, between man and his fellow man, to spot rezone a piece of property and he has made the statement in addition that he believes it is illegal, and under these conditions, I believe that if the council is seriously concerned, and I feel sure they are seriously concerned about the problem presented by this piece of property, that this matter do be referred to a competent expert because we feel that without the passion of people being concerned with an apartment project which they wrongfully consider will injure their pocketbook, we can sit down across a table and point out why this is a beneficial project and why this piece of property should in fact be commercial for the benefit of the entire community, for all the residents of the community in terms of their entire structure taxwise and other- wise. Thank you. Nilsen P.4r. Korsta.d, have you anything to say? You had a question P~4r. Christensen? Is h7r. Christensen there? Any qu_stion? Otis I guess it was my question, i+~r. Mayor. I asked where they got the information about the Pla i C i -i ' nn ng omm s.. on s recommendations. Pdilsen ti~Tas your qu~;stion satisfactorily answered? Otis No, it wwas not.