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CITY OF ST. ANTHONY • PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES September 7 , 1982 The public hearing to consider amendments to the City Ordinance code was opened by Chairman Jones at 7 : 30 P .M. Present for roll .call : Zawislak, Peterson, Bjorklund, Jones , Makowske , and Bowerman. Absent: Sopcinski . Also present: David Childs , City Manager and William Soth, City Attorney. Mr. Childs summarized the two. .proposed- ordinance amendments which would limit the hours of operation of certain types of amusement/entertain- ment businesses in the City and would change certain uses from permitted to permitted conditional uses thereby giving the City more control over these operations . He confirmed for Mr. Bjorklund that it had been the Council who had initiated such action after - the strong demonstra- tion of . opposition from residents and neighbors against the 24 hour operation of a billiard parlor close to a residential neighborhood in the St. Anthony Village Shopping .Center during the Council ' s July 27th and August 10th. meetings . The Manager .had addressed the concerns which had been raised by the .public during these meetings in his August 10 , 1982 memorandum to the Commission. members and had included • in the agenda packet a copy of the notice of the hearing which had been published .in the Bulletin, August 26 , 1982 . The proposed ordinance had been prepared by Mr. Soth who had addressed them as well as other proposed ordinances to limit the number of beer and amusement device licenses which are issued by the City . in his August 24th cover letter which -was also included in the agenda packet along with copies of the Council minutes .. No one else responded to the Chairman's invitation to speak in favor of the proposed changes at that time. However, two representatives of .the C. G. Rein Co. , managers of Apache Plaza Shopping Center, and three persons representing Chick's Billiards spoke in opposition. The Rein Company 's. Attorney, Ted .Zinner, 300 Commerce Building, said his firm opposes changing the classification of restaurants , cafeterias , theatres , health clubs, bowling alleys , and other types of businesses and services now offered at Apache to conditionally permitted uses , requesting. to know what. police .problems had been demonstrated since the 1973 Code of Ordinances had been adopted which would j.ustify such a change . He termed such action- as "fighting paper dragons" and requested the City Attorney consider whether "you ought -to restrict business in this fashion, substantiating that such a change was based on a "rational , viable finding in fact" . He urged the City to check other municipal ordinances before acting, saying Edina and Bloomington- who both have large residential populations , do provide for those types of businesses . He speculated that, although there are at present .no establishments in • Apache which operate past 1:00 A.M. , the trends might change and there might be a need for all night bowling and for persons to utilize the