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Sr; _ �1 -5- '2 told Councilmember- Makowske he did not- believe the fact .3 that the neighbors'- might -want- to buy the land -to keep it 4 from being developed would justify further .tabling of 5 action on the proposal; but 6 advised that an exception- to the Supreme Court ruling 7 would be that, if the property- owner owned the adjoin- . 8 ing lot, the City would not be required to grant these 9 variances; 10 -added that Council'-s approval that evening would cer- 11 tainly not preclude the neighbors' negotiating such a 12 purchase later on,. but the above would be true of that 13 ownership as well; 14 reiterated his belief that, with their June 22nd letter, 15 the attorneys for the deceased property owner "had 16 joined in the, variance application 17 recommended the Council take action on the variance 18 requests that evening. 19 Proponent: William Campbell; of Campbell Construction Inc 12409 �0 Drake Street N.W. , . Coon Rapids, MN. - 21 indicated he opposed any further delays on his request; 22 questioned whether the .fact that the "neighbors might 23 give me trouble" was a viable reason for denying the 24 variances; 2-5 replied to the question of- whether he was going to live 26 in the house he proposed to construct by saying "that 27 depends on the neighbors. " 28 Jake Cadwallader of Cadwallader Realty, 3901 Silver Lake 29 Road, was present but did not speak. 30 The neighbors ' opposition to a house being built on that small lot was 31 again stated by Kenneth Hoxmeier, 3657 Roosevelt who: 32 drew. the. Council' s attention to the. copy of the petition against 33 the :City' s.. allowing a house on this lot which had .been included 34 in their agenda packet; 35 reiter:ated., the -concerns he and his neighbors shared related to 36 problems with. .drainage, snow storage, and. sight distance ob- 37 struction- for drivers' on -Roosevelt, if a house is built on this 38 lot; t =pointed out -that in 'some instances the City was being asked to 40 grant variances which were 50% more than the Ordinance allowed;