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• 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 20 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;. 25 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 -reiterated 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; 09 -pointed out that in some instances the City was being asked to 40 grant variances which were 50% more than the Ordinance allowed;