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1195 Otis I'm not coming out in favor of apartments, but I think it has been shown that if these people move across the line into P~oseville, it will cost us just as much. Nilsen Does anyone on the cour_cil have a question they wish to ask a_t:thbs particular time? Is there any informa tion you may want to seek? Is there any citizen of Falcon Heights who has anything further he wishes to add this evening? Arty residdnt? Anyone who appears on the petition? Is there anyone who wants to add anything to the testimony v~re have presently. Atty. Unfortunately, at the time I spoke a few minutes ago, the question of Tilton apartmen is was not before the house. It now appears that the pro- ponents of the rezong state quite clearly that the purpose of the rezoning is for the purpose of opposing the apartments. They rec- ognize that leaving a small strip of commercial would be just a guise, sort of a bone to the owner, and that they recognize arty commercial project, be it at this time or some Future time, would require at least the full amount of land the owner has zoned commercial, so in view of that recognition and in view of their statement that they would want to again rezone this property commercial, from which they are taking away the commercial status, when the right kind of project came in, I think we have nothing left to discuss but our apartment building. First of all I want to point out that the present plans call for four buildings comprising 68 units -- 17 units each. tie have attempted to comply with every single requirement put down in the PJilsen Do you have an objection, I~4r. Korstad? horstad- - Yes, we object on the same basis as we did before. If we wanted to open this up into apartment buildings, our whole presentation would be changed. Tilton With reference to rezoning, the question is relevant insofar as we have the type of development that this village should look for on this property. I certainly, representing a vested interest, rep- resenting a man who wants to build these apartments, a man who has built many apartment houses in the area, I am not going to tell you people here what is in your own best interests. I do know that ~Zr. Loecks has been an expert planner for many years and I was very in- terested in the report that he made in which he pointed out that you are not going to have shopping centers up and down Larpenteur Avenue. As a matter of fact, you a;~e ~ oing to have to have something to support these shopping centers because this is the basis of your hard, cold, tax base. That strip of shopping cen ters over there and the people who shop there that give that tax dollar some reality. I would like to point out that in an apartment type development, the statistics will show that there are 2.7 people per unit -- that's people not children, and a half child ner unit is somewhere around 35 children. I would also like to point out that these people will shop and. spend their dollars in this very area. I~4ore important than that, I think we about this man's rising taxes. This just about all of us no matter which to face the rising tax problem on ou villages around you, of much Brea+.er ments in the same school district. can't avoid the very question is a real problem confronting community we live in. We have r home, and the fact that the size, are putting these develop- I don't know for sure if my figures are accurate. If they are, I