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CITY OF ST. AMTHONY COUNCIL MIPUTES January 27, 1976 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Miedtke at 7:30 P.M. Present for roll call: Sundland, Haik, Miedtke, Stauffer, Sauer Also present: Jerry Dulqar, City Manager Larry Vickrey, City Attorney Jim Fornell, Adm. Asst. The following additions and corrections were made In the minutes for the January 13, 1976 meeting: Page 3: Insert between paragraph 3 & 4: ''Councilman Haik said she felt the purpose of establishing a study group of citizens at their request was to gain understanding of the sewer system itself and gain perspective on the relative value of proposed solutions". Page 4, para. 3: Substitute "first meeting of the Council in February" for "at the next Council meeting". Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve the minutes of the January 13th meeting as corrected. Motion carried unanimously. Jerry Cowan appeared to report on actions taken by the Planning Board at their meeting January 20, 1976 as well as the reorganization of the Board. He told the Council that, though all the Board members and the residents expressed an interest in the proposal made by Richard Ernst to construct a two story building designed for professional offices and retail shops between the G & G Body Shop and American Legion Club on Kenzie Terrace, they were concerned that rezoning the property to C -Commercial under the existing zoning ordinance might result in allowing an unacceptable commercial use of the property once the zoning was changed. He further said that when the developer indicated he would need the C-2 zoning under the new zoning ordinance to allow the type of retail businesses he contemp- lated leasing the building to, the Board and residents expressed their concern the rezoning would open the door to a number of unacceptable commercial uses they felt would not afford a compatible transition from the heavy commercial uses of the St. Anthony Shopping Center and the residential neighborhood to the west. The Board's representative therefore said the Board intended to base its decision to recommend either approval or denial on the City's being able to restrict usage of the land in question once its zoning had been changed from residential to commercial. The Attorney then said there is no way to legally restrict the usage of the land once the zoning is changed to commercial. The classification of C-1 (service - office) is now being considered for that parcel in the proposed zoning changes and that would not allow many of the shops included in the Ernst proposal. Mr. Cowan and Mr. Vickrey speculated that maybe an additional classification should be considered in the new zoning ordinance to separate more desireable usages under the commercial classification from those not compatible to residential areas.