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Page 2 Mr. Johnson said if the property were rezoned to C-1 the resulting increase in curb cuts and diversity of businesses possible would probably generate more traffic during the rush hours. He thought when the lots were originally zoned light industrial it was anticipated that if American Monarch didn't expand its industry a similar industry would be established there. Mr. Cowan said he felt the proposal was a logical extension of the land usage and was as good as could be expected to get for that property and he would be able to approve of the concept if the City could have some assurance that American Monarch would not sell the land to someone else once they had retained the light industrial zoning. He was in favor of encouraging a good neighbor to stay in the City. Mr. Marks said he was impressed by the comments from several residents of that area during the public hearings on the dispoal of the land to the east of American Monarch that they considered the company a good neighbor and favored expansion of the plant to other developments. He said he felt Mr. Fiore's proposal would provide a good transitional usage between the residential neighborhood and Apache Plaza. When asked for a staff recommendation, Mr. Fornell said he thought the expansion would be a legitimate usage of the land and agreed that American Monarch had been a good neighbor. Mr. Bowerman found no fault with the concept as long as the agreement was not contingent upon the manner in which the land to the east of American Monarch was zoned. Mr. Rymarchick suggested to Mr. Fiore that since the Board had not objected to the concept of the expansion that he give them at least until their next meeting to include his proposal in the ongoing discussions of the new zoning ordinance. Mr. Fiore agreed and the Board took the proposal under advisement until their March 16th meeting. Mr. Carl O. Lien of Land Increment Development, Inc., 739 Heinel Drive, St. Paul, representing the Schroeder Milk Company of 2080 Rice Street, St. Paul, presented site plans which called for the removal of the Jiffy Market which stands at the corner of 33rd Avenue N.E. and Stinson Boulevard and the erection of a new food market with a self service gas pupip in its place and on an additional lot to the south which the milk company had purchased. The proposal would include Lots 16 & 17, Block 3, Clark and King's Hennepin Gardens. The small house on Lot 16 would be removed or torn down. Mr. Lien said adding the gas pump to the proposal made the removal of the present market and placement of the new store on the back of the lots economically feasible. He pointed out the landscaping planned for the corner of Stinson and 33rd and the redwood fencing which would buffer the project from the residences to the south and east. Plans for the gas pump drew expressions of concern from Board members, who felt that in spite of the similar development of the other three corners of that intersection such a usage of the land was not suitable to the residential areas on each side.