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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes • April 8, 1997 Page 4 1 5. Warren Rolek/Dan Solar Meeting - April 4, 1997. 2 Morrison reported this meeting was to discuss the safety options on 37th Avenue. 3 Warren Rolek will be drafting a letter describing the situation and Engineer Dan Solar 4 of Ramsey County will recommend a plan for safety in the area. 5 6. BRW Park Meeting - April 8, 1997 6 Morrison noted he had met with BRW in regard to the Park Plan. There is another 7 meeting scheduled next week with the Sports Boosters, School Board and Community 8 Services to discuss the costs. BRW may be present at the April 22, 1997 Council 9 Meeting to present information to the Council. 10 7. Graus Construction Meeting - April 8, 1997 11 Morrison reported this meeting was to discuss punch lists items yet to be completed 12 including the parking lot and landscaping. He noted there is no smoke alarm in the 13 storage room and this is required by code. Also the contractor needs to return to 14 finish the sidewalk. Larry Hamer will negotiate with the sidewalk contractor to 15 continue the sidewalk to the gym door entrance for the Sports Boosters. Morrison 16 noted the timing of the finishing of the pavement in the parking lot will be critical. 17 He is currently working closely with Community Services to coordinate this. 4kMayor Ranallo questioned a letter.received about the gym floor: 19 Morrison reported the humidity should cause the spacers under the gym floor to close. 20 There may be a problem with this but the floor is under warranty and Graus and 21 Williams O'Brien have acknowledged the problem and will monitor it. 22 8. Domino's Pizza Building Meeting - April 8, 1997 23 39th and Stinson Pizza Hut Update - April 7, 1997 24 Morrison reported he had met with a representative of Apache Squares which was built 25 in 1990 and is now 100% occupied. In 1992-93, the representative had approached 26 the Council due to a difficulty in marketing retail for the site. At that time, the 27 Council allowed him to have retail in the front of the building with warehouse in the 28 back. Morrison stated he had found documentation to 'support this fact and has given 29 the representative authorization to continue this as long as he continues to meet the 30 conditions. Morrison also noted the property value of this site has decreased 31 substantially. 32 Morrison reported the owner of the mall at 39th and Stinson has purchased the Pizza 33 Hut building and intends to extend the mall to include two more retail stores and 34 adjoin with the Pizza Hut building where a sit down Italian restaurant will be 35 considered. Morrison noted there are some questions with regard to parking requirements. The current ordinance would require a fast food restaurant to meet three ,7 conditions: 1 parking stall for each 50 square feet of area, 1 parking stall for each 3 38 seats, and 1 parking stall for each employee on the longest shift. Morrison stated he 39 had checked the ordinances of Columbia Heights and New Brighton and those