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• 6 1 Mary and Charles Finn, 2709 Silver Lane were present to oppose the 2 requests. Mrs. Finn reported on the stream of garbage which comes up 3 the hill from Apache and the Equinox Apartments. She said she couldn't 4 imagine no matter how careful the managers of the proposed facility were 5 that a storage area in the same location wouldn't only be adding to the 6 paper and plastic flying onto her property and the lake now. She 7 anticipated the facility would be a real problem for her and her 8 neighbors and so she couldn't see how it could possibly enhance property 9 values along her street. 10 Charles Finn arrived at the close of the discussions and expressed many 11 of the concerns about the proposed project as the other opponents. He 12 said he had formerly served as a zoning and planning director in another 13 part of the state and he just had to question the acceptability of 14 putting something most people would consider to be normally zoned either 15 heavy or light industrial into a commercial district. He perceived that 16 clearly the type of use this facility would generate would not be 17 appropriate under the guidelines of public service which Apache has with 18 parking, a lot of drop in business, etc. up to this point, but rather 19 that a facility like this, which is essentially storage, would only be 20 found in a light industrial district. Mr. Finn perceived this to be a 21 special type of business which needs to be dealt with specifically and 22 certainly not brought into a commercial area. He was opposed to taking 23 the last green space in Apache and would lose its potential for use as 24 a storm water retention space, which is sorely needed in that area. To 25 do so to him would be extremely short sighted, he added. 26 Jerry Cowan, 3316 Croft Drive, and Ken Solie, 2877 Silver Lane, partners 27 in Village Properties who own St. Anthony Mini-Storage and Apache Office 28 Park, were also present to speak in opposition. 29 Mr. Cowan testified that: 30 * in spite of their own competing business interests, he and his 31 partner had tried to take an objective view of what was best for 32 the community; 33 * they did not perceive the proposed facility would be the best usage 34 of that land; 35 * he had generated calls and letters to Dennis Cavanaugh, President 36 of the C. G. Rein Company, owners and managers of Apache Plaza 37 opposing the self-storage use in the shopping center; 38 * one of those letters, which he did not have a copy of, was from the 39 Chairman of the Board of Herbergers and the other, copies of which 40 had been distributed to the Commissioners, was from Sentinel 41 Management, who manage the Equinox Apartments; r42 * he had spoken to Mr. Cavanaugh who had indicated he was "taking a 43 neutral stance" on the issue, which was self evident in the fact