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Block 1, Barrett's Addition, 3900 Fordham Drive. Motion carried unanimously. The meeting was recessed from 7:56 to 8:00 P.M. The Chairman then opened the Public Hearing on the rezoning request from Mr. Gordon Hedlund for a beauty shop at 3909 Silver Lake Road. Mr. Hedlund presented his proposal for remodeling the existing struc- ture to accomodate the Gold Tiara Beauty Shop by introducing the owner, Mr. Jim Hughes, whose beauty shop is now located on Old Highway 8 in New Brighton. Major remodeling of the 864 square foot structure would be mostly interior with some dressing up of the exterior of the build- ing, but a retention of the residential character of the property. There would be 8 parking spaces provided in front of the building with traffic directed onto Silver Lake Road. Mr. Hedlund discussed with Mr. Hiebel the manner in which the parking lot would be graded and said the signage would probably be of the monumental type. He then showed a rough draft of such a sign which is almost identical in appearance and size to the Herfurth Realty Company next door. When Mr. Johnson said he was not opposed to the beauty salon per se but felt the request would result in spot zoning which he did oppose, Mr. Hedlund said it had not been his intention to rezone the property but only to seek a special use permit which would restrict the use of the property to only the use he was seeking. When it was pointed out to him that the beauty shop was not a permitted use for RII property under the new zoning ordinance, the developer expressed his surprise that the property had to be rezoned to allow the beauty shop and said he would have expressed more opposition to the new ordinance if he had realized it was even more restrictive when applied to his property than the old zoning ordinance. He questioned whether it made sense or was fair to disallow his proposal which he felt was so similar to those from Twin City Federal and Herfurth Realty for which conditional use permits had so recently been granted. Mr. Hedlund then reiterated all the difficulties he had encountered in his attempts to develop this and the otehr property adjoining over the past 16 years, especially citing how his early efforts to develop the area for RII had been thwarted. He mentioned how the Nason Wehrman Chapman study of the area had re- commended that a strip be devoted to service office usage and felt it was too late to prevent such a development now that approval had been given to Herfurth and Twin City Federal. He expressed bitterness that the City had now made it even more complicated for him to develop his property profitably than it had been under the old zoning ordinance. Mr. Cowan felt the logical approach was for Mr. Hedlund to present a plan for the development of the entire tract rather than approach its 4 disposal in a piecemeal manner and suggested the developer ask the City for a planned concept for all the property. -2-