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1 however, he said because there had always been someone <br /> 2 living in this unit and because this was a neighborhood <br /> 3 which had residential as well as light industrial uses, <br /> 4 he would certainly have no objections to having someone <br /> 5 live on the second floor of this building; <br /> 6 reported he stores his parents ' belongings in one of the <br /> 7 units and has experienced problems with getting the. care- <br /> 8 takers on the phone himself because "it is impossible <br /> 9 for them to be on duty 24 hours a day. " ; <br /> 10 thought having another person or two around the premises <br /> 11 might make it easier for the tenants to contact the <br /> 12 operators of the facility. <br /> 13 Mr. Childs said Mr. Blanske spent a good deal of time in Arizona <br /> 14 and he certainly hadn' t known anything about his living in that <br /> 15 unit. . The Manager said he couldn' t see where this could be <br /> 16 considered a "grandfathered" situation because the unit had been <br /> 17 designed for use as an office and not a dwelling. <br /> 18 Mr. Solie agreed that the unit had been so designed, but his firm <br /> 19 had assumed it could be continued to be used as a living space <br /> 20 because that was what Mr. Blanske was using the unit for when they <br /> 21 bought the property. He said he thought Mr. Hamer had found out <br /> •22 Village Properties was renting the space when he had come to <br /> 23 inspect the property when Mr. Cowan was there. <br /> 24 Chair Franzese said she perceived there had been no problems with <br /> 25 having someone live in the unit, but she perceived there was a <br /> 26 conflict in land use and she wondered if the City would be es- <br /> 27 tablishing a precedent for such a conflict in other areas if they <br /> 28 allowed this particular use to remain in a light industrial zoned <br /> 29 property. She was concerned that the City would be getting <br /> 30 requests from property owners in the industrial park to rent out <br /> 31 unused portions of their buildings to persons who worked there. <br /> 32 She perceived the City might be getting into an area it might not <br /> 33 wish to get into at this time. <br /> 34 The following response was made to her statements: <br /> 35 Madden perceived this to be a different situation altogether <br /> 36 because the uses are already mixed in this particular <br /> 37 neighborhood. <br /> 38 Childs said he didn' t want to confuse the issue but wanted to <br /> 39 point out that in many small towns and even along Central <br /> 40 Avenue, it was regular practice to have living quarters <br /> 41 over stores and businesses; <br /> 6 <br />