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r ' <br /> 1 Missing Minutes Noted <br /> 2 Makowske indicated she perceived the omission noted on Page 8 might • <br /> 3 contain testimony vital to the Council's decision that night. <br /> 4 London told her his recollection was that the missing portion contained <br /> 5 mostly Commissioner Hansen's reasons for wanting the variance granted <br /> 6 as well as his own perception that the issue hinged on whether or not <br /> 7 the new garage might only be used to expand the plumbing business which <br /> 8 was being run out of the Tomas home. Mr. London said he personally <br /> 9 believed in garage additions as a way of getting vehicles inside, but <br /> 10 when Mrs. Hogan brought up the issue of the plumbing business, it <br /> 11 changed his mind about granting a variance for this addition. He also <br /> 12 thought that testimony changed other minds on the Commission as well. <br /> 13 The Commission representative reported Commissioner Hansen had <br /> 14 emphatically stated that he didn't believe whether or not the business <br /> 15 was run out of the home should even be an issue in the Commission's <br /> 16 deliberations but rather, they should only be acting on the applicant's <br /> 17 statement that he wanted -to add onto his garage for additional parking. <br /> 18 Secretary Crowe reported she had gone out of town right after she <br /> 19 submitted her draft of the minutes and had not realized until just that <br /> 20 moment that the minutes were incomplete. However, she said she thought <br /> 21 most of Commissioner Hansen's arguments in favor of the variance had <br /> 22 been pretty well reiterated on Page 10 of the minutes in the agenda. <br /> 23 Minutes Report of Withdrawal also Confusing t <br /> 24 Enrooth reported when he had read that the variance request had been <br /> 25 withdrawn he hadn't been too concerned about what the missing page of <br /> 26 minutes might have reported and that information had also caused him <br /> 27 not to make his usual inspection of the property. He asked what had <br /> 28 happened. <br /> 29 Mr. Tomas told the Councilmember he had gotten "quite heated" at the <br /> 30 end of the hearing because he had been taken "off guard" by the claim <br /> 31 about his plumbing business and the possibility that he might be forced <br /> 32 to go with a detached garage because of that report. <br /> 33 Proponents - Eugene and Nicole Tomas, applicants <br /> 34 Dick Fisher, 3000 Silver Lane; Don Zebro, 4017 Penrod <br /> 35 Lane; Ernest M. Wirtz, 4028 Macalaster Drive, neighbors <br /> 36 Eugene Tomas reiterated that the purpose of the new garage was to "get <br /> 37 vehicles, etc. which are parked outside now, off the driveway. " He said <br /> 38 his lot is 138. 8 feet deep and 85 feet wide and the attached garage <br /> 39 would maintain the same alignment as already existed by variance since <br /> 40 1966 for the existing garage. <br /> 41 "As proof for anyone who doubted it would be a real hardship for him to <br /> 42 construct the new garage in any other location" , the applicant presented <br /> 8 <br />