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MINUTES OF THE MOUNDS VIEW p"y PLANNINa COMMI53ION ~ i ootoher 2'/, 1976 The Mounde View Planning Co!nmiasion wes aalied to order st the C1ty Nall by ite viae-ahairman, Don ~iaokeben, at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, Ootober 27, 19'i6. The following membere were present: Nenoy PurmelaEer, P8u1 Fedor, Ph~~llia Hlanohard, Allan Zepper, Robert ~lazer and Don Maoketen. ;ibsent were; tJerald Fose nnd Aarbara Haake, Satter b~i»g oxousod. The minutea f~r the Ootober 13, 1976, meeting were corrected to atate that Allan Zepper~s abaance wae tslso excused. MSP to approve the minutes of OctoUer 13, 1976, as corrected, 6 ayea ITEMS FOR CONSIDEHATION H~h A. Dicken~on I'roperty involve~i - 8058 East+roofl Code InCerpretation Appdal iM.V.C.C,~10.03 (5? Tabled fram 10-13-76 mQeti,ng. Mr. Dic~Cenaon atated Chat Sussel cama to th~ c].ty ha11 and was refused the permit to build a garage on tne undeveloped 1/2 af hie lot. He ateted that he had ~xplained the circumstanaea to Wttlly 8kiba who ' tnla him to go ahead. Since~theYf~M'i5e5ki5a's mind wat~ ehanged and now he ,...~ cannot build. ~~Mr. Maakebea aCRted that the rational is that tho gentleman has two 7ots, eide by eide. Mr. Dickenson replied that 1f he ie forced ta cloee the garage or tasr it down that deprecistas tho value of hts propert.y. I oannot build onto the garago I have becauae it is on the lot line now. Ms. Burmeister said that if he hae a large enough lot, why can~t he tear down tha garaga he has7 He appnrenbly has other 5lternativea. Mr. Mmekeben stated that he could do that; he has many alternativee. The real point is that he has this lot he wanto to put a garage on--he is reelly test:ng our interpretat~on aC the code. Ma. Hlnnchard ebated Chat she felt. the Planning Commiseion was getting too seetrictive. She cannot aee where it ia qoing to harm the City. 31nae we do not have a definite interpi~etation saying that he ca~snot do 3t, ehe feele he ought to be abls Co. Mr. M3ckeben reiterated that what we are being asked to do is to review the eurrenL• interPretation of the exSsting lawA. Tf we want to change thab law that is another story. Mr. Fedor statad that thab is the direction we ~hould go in the future eama tim3. For tha prreent, he cen eee no other way bhan the ipterpretation oS Atborney tdeyera.