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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 justi•fiCation 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