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c� -2- • 1 Commissioner Wagner was assured that the 99¢Video sign would be removed from the 2 Curtis Mathes store as agreed to by the dealership owners, and Mr. Childs told 3 Commissioner 'Ma'dden the staff had informed the Mico station owner that he would 4 have to remove all the non-conforming signage from his premises. 5 6 At 7:47 P.M. , the Chair opened the hearing, to consider the petition from Richard 7 Kaput for a conditional ' use permit which would' allow the operation of a karate 8 school at 2526 Harding Street N.E. , one of the vacant stores in the St. Anthony 9 Village Shopping Center, with the understanding that store is included in the 10 Kenzie Terrace Redevelopment Project which could be developed for housing in the 11 future. 12 13 According to the Manager, the notice of the hearing had been published in the 14 June 4th Bulletin and mailed to all property- owners of record within 350 feet of 15 the subject property. Noone present indicated an interest in the proposal or 16 stepped forward to present the request to the 'Commissioners. Mr. Childs read 17 the letter which had been sent June 4th to the petitioner advising him that 18 failure to appear ,at the meeting could result in the Commission automatically 19 following the pol°icy established`-for such absences, to send the request on to the 20 Council with the Commission' s recommendation for denial because -of lack of infor- 21 mation on which to make an educated decision. The Manager's recommendation was 22 that the policy should be followed in this case as well . Commissioner Bjorklund 23 commented that he had noted that there had been no notice of the hearing posted 24 at the entrance door to building or the Council Chambers which might have some 25 bearing on the absence of the Karate School representatives. 26 • 27 In his June *1-4th memorandum on the request, the Manager had observed that the 28 proposed use tended to be more school , than health spa or gym., oriented but 29 fell within the same category for .zoning purposes. He rei-terated that staff had 30 received no comments from the public related" to the proposal and, therefore 31 recommended approval of the permit with imposition of any conditions the Commis- 32 sion decided would assure its use only for the purposes stated in the application. 33 34 Commissioner Bjorklund indicated he was somewhat concerned with the possibility 35 that the use could evolve into some non-desirable use in the future and wanted 36 any approval made contingent upon the assurance that the owners would have to 37 return for a variance if that use should change or be added to later on. 38 39 Commissioner Madden- indicated he perceived the school would be a reasonable use 40 as long as the permit stated the school would not be operated later than 10:00 P.M. , 41 as the petitioner had -indicated would be his intention on the drawings attached 42 to his application. The Commissioner said he personally could see no relationship 43 between a karate school and a use like a sauna, especially since the application 44 had stated explicitly that only permission for a karate school was being sought. 45 Commissioner Madden indicated he would prefer to lay the matter over the the -46 next Commission meeting rather than chance that a viable business might be lost 47 to _that- particular shopping-'center, which is certainly hurting for business, just 48 because the -applicant might have misunderstood his presence was required that 49 evening -or had a legitimate reason for not attending. He also questioned 50 whether a Commission policy about which some of the Commissioners were unaware 51 should be enforced without getting an agreement from all the Commissioners who • -52 were present. 53 54 Mr. Childs told the Commissioner the applicant had- indicated to him that he was 55 anxious to open July 1st and would probably not be too happy having to wait another