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Mounds View City Council + `' "" W} Regular Meeting ------------------------ -♦ �rirL_f_�lill Tor Wistrom, representing Kraus Anderson, reviewed the street light proposal and placement of the lights. He added they have authorized NSP to go ahead and install the street lights, and they hope to begin work later this week. Bob Wagner, 2590 Mounds View Drive, asked what the S w eet iightinq WOLIJ consist ot. Mr. Wistrom showed the plan for the lights and their placement. Director Thatcher explaineJ two lights have been in place since 1982, hilt NSP would not turn them an until the property was developed. Joe Mesanz, 2626 Lake Court Drive, asked the status of the rezoning. Mayor Linke explained it had been approved with the second readic,g and adoption earlier in the evening. Councilmember Hankner explained some of the history of the property, with the owner attempting to sell it and finding a buyer in Super America. She explained the developer is very willing to work with the City, and the only reason rezoning was necessary was for the installation of the gas pumps. She also pointed cut that Super America has agreed that if in the future the gas pumps are no longer being used, they will be removed, along with the tanks. She added that as members of the Council, they must be very careful about the decisiur,s they make. Mayor Linke closed the public hearing and reopened the reyuldr nr_eting at 6:29 PM. Attorney Meyers advis3d the Council to base their 14 findings on section 40.25, Sutd. C, (21, whirh includes that the use will not create an excessive burden on existing narks, schools, atreeta and ether public facilities and utilities which serve or are proposed to serve the area, that the use will be sufficiently compatihle or separated by distance or screening from adjacent residentially zoned or used land so that existing homes will not b^ depreciated in value and there will be no deterrence to develop- ment of vacant land, that the structure and site shall have an appearance that will not have an adverse effect upon adjacent residential properties, that the use, in the opinion of the City Council, is reasonably related to the overall needs of the City and to the existing land use, that the use is consistent with the purposes of the Zoning Code and the purposes August 26, 1985 Page Five - -- - - Consideration of Resolution No. 1921