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-3- 1 month. The Manager also indicated he perceived that- it might be very difficult • 2 for the City to refuse a 'request for a use which- had been included as an acceptable 3 use for the City in the Zoning Ordinance. He speculated that it was possible the 4 petitioner would appear before the 'Council June 25th and they, with the benefit 5 of the Commission concerns as a guideline, might grant the permit. Commissioner 6 Bjorklund commented that he certainly wouldn't want to give the request an O.K. 7 without having any input from the applicant. 8 9 The hearing was closed at 7:57 P.M. 10 11 Motion by Commissioner Bjorklund and seconded' by Commissioner Wagner to recommend 12 the Council deny the request fora conditional- use permit for a Karate School at 13 2526 Harding Street N.E. ,. because the proponent had failed to attend the Commission 14 hearing on the proposal to provide input related to the issues and Commission 15 concerns about the use which were raised during the hearing and there was no one 16 present for the public ,to speak either for or- against the request. 17 18 Motion carried unanimously. 19 20 At 8:01 P.M. , the Chair opened the public hearing to consider a request from 21 Bernard Blanske for a variance from Zoning. Ordinance setback regulations which 22 would allow the construction of a second floor addition to the existing central 23 area of the mini-warehouses located at 3829 Foss Road. The variance would allow 24 a 33 foot setback, identical to that allowed the original building, from Sunset 25 Lane, where the ordinance requires 40 feet. 26 • 27 The notice had been published in the June''4th "Bulletin and mailed to all property 28 owners of record within 200 feet of the subject property, none of- whom were present, 29 and the Manager reported receiving no calls either for or against the proposal . 30 As he had advised in his June 14th memorandum, Mr. . Childs reiterated that staff 31 had perceived this to be a well mai-ntained',use with the street in front of the 32 building having been constructed by the owner -according to all City standards. 33 Whether the original building had been designed to support a second floor, would 34 be determined prior to issuance of a building permit, the Manager told Commissioner 35 Madden. The Commissioner, who lives close by, questioned the identification of 36 the warehouse facility on the side of the truck/trailer, which, he said, is 37 always parked across the street. Mr. Childs told him that, if the sign remains, 38 it would be non-conforming to the Sign Ordinance. 39 40 Commissioner Bjorklund recalled that the identification of a land use conflict in 41 that area in the City's' Comprehensi`ve Plan had been a major issue when the first 42 variances for the existing structure were granted in 1980 but he indicated he 43 perceived that, with so much commercial development in that area since that time, 44 adding to ,-this building could not worsen the situation. The Manager added that, 45 trying to change the complexion of that area at this stage would, in his own 46 opinion, not be an achieveable goal . He had included in the agenda packet copies 47 of some of the pertinent minutes reporting Council and Commission action related 48 to the original warehouse structure. 49 50 Mr. Bl.anske was present and indicated he perceived that it had been because he 51 had followed the City' s direction to tuck the side structures into the hill where 52 the units were 7 or 8 feet below -grade, that he now needed to add long term 53 storage space on the second floor to avoid the dampness in the materials stored 54 in the underground- units. He told the Commissioners he keeps the trailer/truck 55 on his property across the street available for very short term storage purposes