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1180 practically back of the restaurant, and there is a man who signed the petition who arparently is objecting to the apartment buildings and this petition was served because of it. He has an interest in some apartment buildings on Eustis and Larpenteur where the buildings are so close that if a man had a long arm, he could shake hands with the fellow in the next building every morning and say good morning, and the set back on these buildings is 8' fro~a Eustis and about 18' from Larpenteur. The same people who signed the petition to rezone Mr. Lindig's property are interested in that situation out there. It's a strange thing to me. I do believe it is unfair. Rezoning Mr. Lindig's property back to 179' would seriously devaluate his property. There is no question about it. After bringing the line to 179' from the south what is going to happen to the rest of the property from the home that is built on the north to the new line you are establishing? If its true that by virtue of having apartment buildings or any commercial use, if it's true, then Mr. Lindig certainly is losing the value of that property to the extent of 253 feet, isn't he. It s.;ems to me that bringing this line down to 253' is not going to help the situation at all. You will still have the same situa- tion and I maintain, that. as the expert testified at a former meeting here, that people who bought next to Mr. Lindig's property or across the street already depreciated his property at the time he bought 'zis home because the property to the west and to the south (Leaf & Thera's property) was already zoned commercial. Therefore there is no question in my own mind -- I happen to be an authorized appraiser for the F. H. ~.. myself but I am not €zoing to testify on that because I'm prejudiced. However, there is no question in my mind that when those people purchased their homes next to this commercial property, the depreciation had already taken place at that time. Therefore anything you do here certainly is not going to depreciate the property an4Y more than it is at this time. It makes sense. I can't quite understand why the folks here are so against having four beautiful apartment buildings, well landscaped and with a lot of beautiful trees and screening all around the place. I just can't understand and I hope you folks will reconsider. Thank you very much. Nilsen Mr. Lindig, do you wish to speak in your own behalf? 'PJm Lindig Well I think Mr. ~Iembrez has covered it pretty well. I still don't see why the people want to rezone this property on me. It has been that way since 1946 and I don't know why they got all these signa- tures. I understand its only within 500' one way or the other that it would mean anything anyway, The University Farm and the Farmer's Terminal are commercial and the few houses on Fry Street and I don't think they have enough signatures to do anything about it. I think if they want to rezone this on me, I'm entitled to some reimbursement from somebody - the village or the people who have their names on the petition if they want to take it away from me. The way I feel about it, these people just ti~~ant to steal from me. I don't see how they are going to be able to sleep nights. They knew it was commercial and. if they didn't, they had a perfect right to look it up, hadn't they? They all knew it. I don't understand why they want to do something now. I don't know what the people in the neighborhood are thinking of.