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1 Enrooth agreed, saying he couldn' t see why Minne- 2 sota Scientific couldn' t just find other office ' • 3 space which was plentiful in St. Anthony; 4 agreed the whole building vacated by Medtronics 5 would be too large for Minnesota Scientific but 6 said .he understood Medtronics was considering 7 parceling it out for some sort of medical complex. 8 Ranallo said he could see Councilmember Makowske ' s 9 point that the City wouldn' t want a sudden pro- 10 liferation of trailer offices which would make 11 St. Anthony look "junky; " 12 told Councilmember Enrooth Medtronics wanted to 13 sell the whole building and let somebody else 14 parcel it out; 15 was told by Mr. Childs that . the R. L. Johnson Com- 16 pany had about 150 of its office workers in the 17 building on a temporary basis. 18 Marks. stated he considered this to be a reasonable 19 request because Mr. LeVahn still has another year 20 on his lease which he probably wouldn' t want to 21 break just to get additional space; 22 commented that if he were in charge of this firm, • 23 he would also find split offices very unmanageable 24 and would want to have all his staff consolidated 25 under one roof ; 26 said he would have no problem at all approving 27 this request. 28 Makowske said she did have a problem with grant- 29 ing this request because the Council had just 30 passed an ordinance preventing vehicles from being 31 parked on lawns and now "we ' re going to let a 32 business park a trailer on the lawn. " ; 33 told Mr. LaVahn she recognized it would be much 34 better for him to have all his staff at one site; 35 but 36 said she didn' t see the justification for trailers 37 all over in St. Anthony just to accommodate the 38 businesses ; 39 indicated this would not create the -kind of atmos- 40 phere she would like to see; • 4