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CITY OF ST. ANTHONY'. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES • December 11 , 1984 1 The meeting was called to order by Chair Zawi,slak at 7:35 P.M. 2 3 Present for roll cal.l :. Zawislak, Wagner, Bowerman, and Hansen. 4 5 Absent: Jones (arrived at 7:.48 P.M. )., Bjorklund and Franzese. 6 7 Also present: David Childs, City Manager. 8 9 Motion by Commissioner.� Wagner and seconded by Commissioner Hansen to approve as 10 submitted the minutes of the Planning Commission meeting held November 20, 1984. 11 - 12 Motion carried unanimously. 13 14 Commissioner Bowerman will report the meeting at the December 18th Council meeting. 15 16 At 7:37 P.M. , the Chair opened the hearing to consider a request from Howard 17 Applebaum, 1583 Saunders, St. Paul,, for a conditional use permit' to operate a video 18 cassette equipment sales and rental -operation in the Apache Plaza 'Shopping Center. 19 Chair Zawislak read the notice which "had-been published in the November 27th 20 Bulletin and which had been mailed to all property owners of record within 350 21 feet of. the subject property. No one present reported -failure to receive that 22 notice orobjected to its content. 23 24 The Manager reported receiving no calls about the request and reiterated much of 25 his explanation of the proposal which had been stated in his December 7th memorandum 26 to the Commission.. He read aloud the three conditions which would have to be 27 required of the applicant for conditional use permit approval . According to 28 Mr. Childs, Mr. Applebaum had .already indicated to him that he would have no 29 problem meeting- all three requirements. Mr. Applebaum told the Commissioners his 30 store would. take up 1 ,900 square feet of space in the area west of the garage 31 doors on the south side of the mall where the Wards pickup and catalog departments 32 had been located.. The -existing door in that area would be closed off, the appli- 33 cant said, and only the side door retained, along with a three or four foot wide 34 window. 35 . -- ----3'6—A-major-portion-of-hi-s-business-would--come-from-the-renta-l--of-vi-deo-cassettes, 37 Mr. Applebaum said, but he would also be selling VCR's and television sets. 38 ' The store owner said he hopes to convey to. the community the impression of a 39 family oriented establishment. The store would have no interior mall access, and 40 Mr. Applebaum indicated he would anticipate closing _no later than 11 :00 P.M. on 41 weekends and earlier on weekdays, although he had not made a firm decision in that 42 regard. The applicant also indicated signage and lighting of the sign would be 43 in :conformance with the requirement of .the shopping center management and City 44 codes. 45 - 46 When the Chair asked Mr. Applebaum what effect he perceived Cable T.U. might have 47 on 'his business, the store owner told. him that .there are eight other Video World