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• Planning and Zoning August 20, 1980 Page Seven •Council and if there is a wrong decision, that is the responsibility of the Council and not of this Board. • There was some discussion on the written opinions of Mr. Locher and Mayor Gourley noted that Mr. Locher had had no objections to the Resolution as passed by the Council. Mr. Hook said he had stated his grounds for a lawsuit - he had not heard any thing from the other side. Mayor Gourley said he was unaware that a public hearing, with legal advisor present, was to be held at this meeting. If he had been aware of this he would have provided legal representation for the City. Mr. Reinert said he would hope they could could continue to hold open meet- ings and listen to concerned citizens - he felt this has always been done. Mayor Gourley said taking testimony from concerned citizens is fine - but holding a public hearing at this point in time is not proper. Mr. Reinert again referred to the letter he had written to Mr. Locher and mentioned the fact that Mayor Gourley had intercepted the letter and it had not been answereed. 4-7/4 ;r) Mr. Prokop, memo went over the hearing on Outlot C, that had revoked this special use permit for multi- family dwellings. He is confused on just where this fits into this discussion. Mrs. Schwankl moved to recommend to Council this preliminary plat be approved subject of a public hearing, in as much as the developer had complied with all things requested by the Council. Mr. Hook felt the motion was premature, Mr. Reinert said the motion was in order. The motion was seconded by Mr. Bathke. There was discussion on the acess to the lake. Mr Hook raised this question. He wanted to know how 290 people would get to the lake? Are there to go through the cul -de -sac? Will all 96 persons put docks on this lake? What the State of Minnesota allowto put on that lake for the number of docks? isn't that a legimate question this Board should know before they consider this plat? Mr. Reinert said the surface water use of that lake is a concern of his - from the standpoint of safety in the overpopulation of the use of the lake, Mr. Bathke pointed out that this is not a public hearing and this is not a subject that should be discussed here. M. Hook said that in the matter of the ponding area/there was only an estimate of how many acresecontained in that area he felt that this Board should have documentation as to how much land is contained in that area. IIIMr. Johnson went back to the fact that North St. Paul and many other Cities use the number of bedrooms to compute the density. Mr. Bathke asked Mr. Blackbird what the City Ordinance says about density and Mr. Blackbird said there are no requirements as to density - just a requirement as to the square footage needed for each building.