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-3- 1 Mr.. Nelson indicated he would like to add 0i feet to the south -side of his existing • 2 garage to make getting in and -out .of the cars easier, but said he would Mbe happy 3 to get only six He acknowledged =that the' Pearsons occasionally experienced water 4 problems in their back yard and reiterated the plans ' he had proposed in his appli- 5 cation .to prevent his addition from adding. to those problems. These included 6 sloping the concrete retaining wall lip in such a manner- as to force the runoff .7 from his property to the- rear of his own property and away from the Pearson's 8 residence which is 14 feet away from his own south property line. Mr: Nelson al.so 9 indicated he could install a hydraulic pipe which would assure the water would 10 stay on his property. 11 12 Mrs. Pearson .read a prepared statement which included her di.sappointment that 13 "since we built in-the City in the 50's, yards have become so small , you could 14 exceed your lot line with almost two swipes with a lawn-mower" . Commissioner 1; 15 Bjorklund agreed this was a common complaint with older residents who had moved to r 16 St. Anthony to- get "elbow room". Mrs. Pearson told how her backyard is consistently 17 flooded whenever there is a heavy rain and she said she is concerned that with more �. 18 building and driveway, there would be less areas to absorb the moisture. With 19 more driveway on her side, the complaintant .said she wondered where the snow from 20 the Nelson 's yard'- would be blown. 21 22 Mr. Nelson responded that he believed the hydraulic pipe should keep the runoff 23 from the Pearson 's yard and indicated he has no intention of blowing snow towards ! 24 the Pearson 's property. 25 26 The applicant told Commissioner Franzese he could .cite no hardship except that he C • 27 has no place to park the three-vehicles he now owns, but Mr.. Nelson concluded by f 28 saying, as he had 'stated in- his application, that he' would drop, his proposal if 29 his neighbor&- objected. 30 - 31 The hearing was closed at 8:07 P.M. 32 33 Motion by Commissioner Bjorklund and seconded by Commissioner Bowerman to table 34 action on the Nelson garage expansion request until such time as the neighbors can 35 come to some agreement regarding the project. 36 37 Motion carried unanimously. 38 39 At 8:10 P.M. , the Chairman opened the public hearing to consider the petition from 40 Jerry Isaacs and Associates, 357 .East .Kellogg Boulevard, St. Paul for variance from 41 parking and setback requirements of the City Zoning Ordinance which would allow 42 conversion of the Northgate Motel, 25.26 Highway 88, into a 19 unit office con- 4.3 dominium complex. 44 45 Chairman Zawislak read the notice of the hearing which had been published in the 46 August 8th Bulletin and had gone out to all property owners of record within {, 47 200 feet of the subject property. No one present indicated failure to receive 48 the notice or objected to its content. 49 50 In his August 16th memorandum, the Manager had described the proposed project and 51 indicated that, because of site constraints, the new owner of the motel property 52 would be seeking to provide only 66 parking stalls, where the .City Ordinance re- 53 quires 74, .w.ith a -certain number of those .stal1s to -,be' % X 1;9 feet to accomodate 54 the more common compact cars, rather than'the 9 X 19. foot required in the Ordinance 55 for standard size automobiles.