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i CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES • January 22 , 1980 The Council' s regular meeting, which followed a work session on levy limitations , was opened at 7 :30 p.m. by Mayor Haik. Present for roll call: Letourneau, Ranallo, Haik, Sundland and _Marks. Also present: Jim Fornell, City. Manager; Ron Berg, Administrative Assistant; William Soth, City Attorney; and. Carol Johnson, Clerk- Treasurer. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Ranallo to approve 'as submitted the minutes for the Council meeting held on - January 8 , 1980 . Motion carried .unanimously. Doug Jones presented the actions taken and recommendations made,;by the Planning --Commission as reflected in their minutes of January 15, 1980 . He reported that after a lengthy hearing, the Planning Commission had given unanimous recommendations of approval for both rezoning and the variances necessary for the senior housing proposed to be constructed on Kenzie Terrace between the Legion Club building and the Lowry Grove Manor by the Northeast Minneapolis/St. Anthony Senior Housing Corporation. The recommendation had been based on the Commission' s opinion that the project fulfilled the mid density residential dwelling development suggested in the Comprehensive Plan and would provide a good buffer between the commercial deve,:Pbp- ment east of Kenzie Terrace and the single family development to the west. j Opposition to the proposal, as at the Public Hearing, was presented by Joe and James Schluender and George and- Virginia Kieffer, who live just west ,of the alley which separates the site in question from the residential on 27th Avenue N..E. They saw the .four-sfory height of the proposed- structure as "intensifying the density of the area",-and �James -Schluender likened the development to "an ele- phant in a colony of ants" . George Kieffer saw the 'building "which will be twice as high as St. Charles School" as "disrupting the skyline" and expressed the concern that providing only 45 parking spaces for a 134-unit building will result in on-street parking on both 27th Avenue N.E. and Wilson Street N.E. Mrs. Kieffer indicated she was in agreement with all points of opposition. Their concern whether a fire in a building of that `size could be handled by the City ' s firefighting apparatus was answered by Mr. Fornell who -told them he is quite certain, especially considering the inherent controls required for a structure of this size, that -the City Fire Department is fully capable of serving the proposed building.