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® 1 *was •concerned there might be problems with liquor procure- 2 ment ( Childs said this would not be the same -as for a 3 liquor off-sale establishment) ; . 4 *thought the extended hours might increase the .possibility of 5 disturbances and fights which could add to police calis 6 during their peak call- period and could only be prevented by- 7 excellent management and strict supervision;- 8 *perceived it would only be with this control that drug trans- 9 actions and other type of criminal activities could .be 10 avoided. 11 The Manager reported those had been the kind of concerns which had 12 prompted the annual review of the amusement-.device licenses for the 13 Fun Center ' s operation in the St. Anthony - Shopping Center , whose 14 proprietor often appears for those reviewal sessions. Mr. Childs 15 indicated the Police Department considers that to be a well run 16 operation and have reported no major problems down there, although 17 the arcade is also located within 200 or 300 feet of both the on 18 and off sale municipal liquor stores. He added that these facilit- 19 ies probably generated. more problems than. the Fun Center. .20 The City Manager answered,- the questions posed by .the Commission by: C *telling Chair Franzese he considered it. .to be more unusual 2 for a municipality to have a limited number of amusement 23 devices licenses available than it was for a city the size 24 of, St . Anthony to have two amusement arcades ; 25 *saying he thought it may be unusual for a city's ordinance 26 to require these .activities to be handled as conditionally 27 permitted uses, perceiving the applicants may not have had to 28 seek these type of permits in the other cities they serve 29 because amusement arcades are permitted commercial uses in 30 those municipalities ; 31 *recalling it had been the possibility of a 24 hour billiard. 32 hall. with a beer license located in St.. Anthony which was one 33 of the, concerns which had initiated this.. zoning .classifica- 34 tion for this use; 35 *indicating the opposition which was. expressed. against .the 36 Fun Center at those hearings might have- been magnified as an 37 example of what might be coming if -the -billiard hall went -in.. 38 Proponents: Daniel Heilicher, Norman Pink, and Gene Winstead of 39 American Amusement Arcades Company' 40 Dennis Cavanaugh, President of C. G. Rein - Company �1 11