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-2- Plaza, and a copy of the City ' s Obscenity Ordinance , all of which dealt with the subject of the sale of X-rated materials for which the • applicants have indicated they have no interest in carrying in their St. Anthony store . The application for the permit had been signed by Duane Doughty of Zimmerman, Minnesota and he and two of his partners in the Coon Rapids Color T.V. , Inc. , Bill E . Mortice , also of Zimmerman and Sam Czaplewski , 2105 Marshall Street in St. Paul , were present to discuss the store and its operation. They indicated their firm which does business under the name of The 99G Video Club , had another partner, Ed Lanning, who was not present. All the partners fully understood the conditions under which they would be permitted to operate in St. Anthony were "no X-rated movies and no late hours" . Mr. Mortice said these terms were acceptable to them since they plan to have the store open no later than 8 :00 P .M. on weekdays and only until 5 :00 P .M. on Saturdays and Sundays and all the movies they would carry are films which could be seen in a theater or on T.V. He said the store owners would continue their practice at other locations of discouraging juveniles from hanging around their stores . Any such person who comes in, Mr. Mortice said, would be told to "come back with their parents to make a purchase" . Mrs . Makowske was assured there would be no reason for running a movie its full length, because that would just wear the film out and the screenings would never be visible from outside the building. Gordon Fox, 6924 Ashwood, Woodbury , Minnesota, said his firm is the • managing agent for the St. Anthony Shopping Center and because they and the center' s New York owners were of the - opinion that it would not be in the best business interests of the center to have a porno- graphic business there , had conducted a thorough check of the petitioners and their other business ventures before renting the store next to Jerry ' s Toys to them. P-Ir. Fox told the Chairman the center 's owners and management are very anxious to work with the City on "turning the center around" , and have retained an architect to draw up plans for making facia improvements and remodeling the two large empty units in the center. Although he knows of no current plans regarding the redrawing of the traffic patterns , Por. Fox reminded the Commission members that the Eberhardt Company is involved with the senior housing project across Kenzie Terrace. There was no one Ipresent to speak in opposition to the permit request and the hearing was closed at 7 :51 P .M. for Commission deliberations . Mr. Peterson indicated the unequivocal letter of commendation from the manager of the Northdale Center where the same group runs a similar store in Coon Rapids had been most helpful in his making a decision about the request. Mr. Bjorklund arrived at 7 : 52 P .M. Mrs. - Makowske pointed out that she sees a different set of circumstances for this store as compared to the Video Center which was somewhat • isolated in an interior mall in Apache but then made the motion which Mr. Bowerman seconded that the City Council grant a conditional use permit to Coon Rapids Color T.V. , Inc. DBA 99� Video Club which would allow the operation of a video tape sale and rental business as pro- posed at 2920 Pentagon Drive under the conditions that: