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would serve such a small segment of the community, but Mr. Shelstad. said he didn't see any great difference in this venture and the Council supported city-wide fund raising, to send the school band to Hawaii. Councilman Sundland left the meeting at 10:15 P.M. The possibility of erecting an architecturally Pleasing cover for the hockey rink now and later adding the artificial rink, facilities, should the public indicate an interest in such an improvement, was also explored. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Haik to table action on the covered hockey rink until the January 11th Council meeting and to request the staff to make an evaluation of the cash flow figures for the project and give their recommendations at that time. Motion carried unanimously. The meeting was recessed. from 10:30 to 10:45 P.M. John Daubney, a St. Paul attorney representing Gordon Hedlund, appeared to discuss the problems his client has encountered in his attempts to dispose of the undeveloped land he owns across from Apache Plaza. He disagreed with the assessment of his appearance in the agenda as a "possible lawsuit" saying he and Mr. Hedlund were only seeking a resolution to a situation where the developer had been "deprived of a fair and equitable use of his land" and could. no longer afford to hold the land empty. Mr. Daubney contended that the City was required by State Statute #462-354 to update the 1962 zoning map to reflect the changes which are in the new zoning ordin- ance the City recently adopted. To support his claim of deprivation_ of use of the land, the attorney cited the City's refusal over the last six or seven years to allow the development of the land for a theater, a savings and loan institution, a real estate office and the Country Kitchen restaurant in spite of the "most intensive commercial usage directly across Silver Lake Road at Apache". To provide a buffer between the residential and. commercial. usage, Mr. Daubney said his client was willing to increase the depth of the 9 lots along Penrod Lane to 90 feet and to allow the building of single family homes there if he were then allowed to develop the land remaining along Silver Lake Road either to commercial or a commercial/service office mix. In defense of this proposal, the attorney said there is no financial institution willing to fund the residential development of property along Silver Lake Road and he said the Ramsey County Engineer had told him the County would never allow individual driveways for residential development onto Silver Lake Road. Mr. Hedlund agreed that "if he gets commercial, he'll definitely sell or build the tract along Penrod for residential.". Mr. Daubney said Mr. Hedlund was willing to work out a compromise with the Planning, Board if he felt the Council would accept their recommendations for rezoning that tract from its present residential (6)