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1176 "Spot Zoning" or local zoning is necessary or good for the community or legal. We have examined the present zoning as far as business district or commercial in Falcon Heights and we find a pretty straight strip of 175' butting along the north side of Larpenteur avenue. This is pretty close to uniform running along Larpenteur immediately to the north side. There is one noticeable exception to this approximately 175' and that is the Wm. Lindig property which goes back approximately l~35' off of Larpenteur. The Wm, Lindig property is not on a business corner such as Larpenteur and Snelling. The Lindig property goes into residential district. It did go into residential district at the time of its zoning. It is quite apparent that even though houses were not there, there were 3 lots marked. and zoned residential A immediately across from the Lindig property to the East so that whether there were houses immediately across from the Lindig property at the time of its rezoning, is immaterial. The point is that the surround- ing property was zoned residential ~ so that the long l~35' running down Fry goes right into ~°esidential area which was so zoned. There is another very noticeable point when you examine the zoning laws or the zoning map of Falcon Heights and that is that the Lindig property is primarily a greenhouse property and 3ret when you go further down to the west on Larpenteur you find the Killmer prop- erty which is a greenhouse, you find the Art Lindig property, you find the Hermes property which is a greenhouse and further down the Gibbs Nelson Greenhouse property and I think actually further down you come to other greenhouse properties. These are the main ones as I s ~e them, The odd part of it tivas that none of them are zoned commercial. I think if all the Wm. Lindig property is properly zoned commercial, then all the Killmer property should be zoned commercial, that all the Art Lindig Property, The Hermes property, the Gibbs Nelson prop- erty should be zoned commercial, and all of the other greenhouse property along Larpenteur should be zoned commercial. Then there would not be any discrimination. We believe as residents of Falcon Heights that there is discrimin- ation, not only to the local residents in the immediate area of the Y~'m. Lindig property by having all of the S"7m. Lindig property zoned commercial but there is also gross discrimination against all the other Greenhouse property. There is something wrong. Something happened back in 1912 and 1949 when the rezoning took place. I do not know what it is. I have not had access to the records, but certainly for uniformity in zoning, I think all the greenhouse property should be rezoned comm- ercial all the vray back, all the way back into the other residential property. That is what Wm. Lindi~'s property is zoned as. There must be a mistake some place. The easiest way to correct this is simply to rezone the Wm. Lindig property and then have a planning engineer and a complete study made of all of the property remaining in Falcon Heights so that an error like this does not occur again and so vre get some proper planned zoning, in all of Falcon Heights, without any discrimination to one property owner and without any discrimination to any of the business men or. to any of the resi- dents. I think if you look at that map you will pause and wonder yourself as to what the equities are. You can pretty well take the Wm. Lindi property in one hand and you can take the residents on Fry and is whole area surrounding and then take all the other 11 n 1