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1. Staff had received no calls opposing the variance before the hearing and no one spoke against the request during the hearing. 3 2. A precedent for non-conforming signage had been established with the 4 business just east of the Thrift Store. 5 3 . A hardship was perceived for the store owners because of the store's 6 lack of visibility from the south, east, and west without the canopy 7 signs. 8 4. Better demarcation of the store's entrance is provided by signs which 9 have already been erected on the store canopy. 10 Motion carried unanimously. it Four to One Vote Recommends Approval of a Family Day Care Center at 12 3808 Macalaster Drive N.E. 13 At 7:51 P.M. the Chair opened an informal discussion of the request for 14 the conditional use permit for a day care center pending the published 15 8:00 P.M. hearing time. The Notice of the Hearing to consider the 16request from Village Properties, Inc. for a conditional use permit to 17 allow establishment of a day care facility for from 12 to 14 children 18 under the R-4 Apartment Zoning Classification for Macalaster Apartments was read aloud. 0 The Notice of the Hearing had been published in the February 8th 21 Bulletin and mailed to all property owners of record within 350 feet of 22 the subject property. No one present reported failure to receive the 23 notice or objected to its content. 24 >Ms. VanderHeyden's March 31st memorandum reported the applicants were 25 asking they be allowed to convert a garden level, 950 square foot, two 26 bedroom apartment for the proposed use which met the ordinance 27 requirement for no more than a total of 1 ,000 square feet, for which 28 the ordinance allowed no advertising or signing on the exterior of the 29 building or yard. 30 >The applicant, Kenneth Solie, testified that a measurement of the 31 space had revealed it- was only 950 square feet rather than the 1,050 32 square feet originally proposed. 33 >Ms. VanderHeyden. had also -advised the justifications the applicant 34 perceived for allowing the permit and pointed out that the concept of 35 daycare facilities was one which was new to the City. 36 >The agenda packet included a copy of the March 3rd letter from the 37 Licensing Unit of the Ramsey County Community Human Services 38 Department, establishing criteria under which a license for the use 39 could be issued pursuant to Chapter 9502 of the County's licensing • 4