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-3- Mr. Dulgar reported on the negotiations he and the City Fngineer had with the Irving Lamppa Company on the completion of work on the Water Improvement Project 74-1. The following motion was made regarding Mr. Lamppa's request for partial payment for the work completed: Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve payment of stimate #3 for $17,o8g.74 to the Lamppa Construction Company. Motion carried. The meeting was recessed at 8:10 and reconvened at 8:18 P.M. for a discussion of the recommendations of the Planning Board as presented by Mr. Wil Johnson from the minutes of the November 19th meeting of the Planning Board. Board members, Grace McGinn and George Marks also participated in the presentation. Dick Le�ourneau arrived at 8:30 P.M. Mr. Johnson told the Council that the Planning Board had recommended granting a sign variance to allow a free standing sign to be erected in front of the Midwest Professional Building which was under construction in the St. Anthony Office Park by the Bernu Construction Company. A colored sketch of the sign was shown by Mr. Rod Bernu and the Mayor read the conditions under which variances to the sign ordinance might be granted. Mr. Johnson said the Planning Board had felt the sign was especially unique to the parcel on which it was to be built and enhanced the building it identified in a more satisfactory manner than a sign on the building. • Mr. Dulgar repeated his recommendations that consideration be given to elimin- ating the restriction against some types of free standing signs contained in the City sign ordinance. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to grant a variance to the sign ordinance to allow the Bernu Construction Company to erect the sign presented by Mr. Bernu as identification of the Midwest Professional Bldg. Mr. Johnson then reported on the discussion the Board had with Mr. Gordon Hedlund at the November 19th meeting and gave a resume of the Board's feelings regarding Mr. Hedlund's proposal for development of the land he owns across Silver Lake Road from Apache Plaza Shopping Center. Mr. Hedlund presented the same plans he had shown at the Planning Board meeting including two service office buildings and a Country Kitchen Restaurant as well as single family residential lots on that portion of the land along Penrod Lane. He then showed the revised proposal in which he said he had incorporated the suggestions made by the Board. I Mr. Johnson said that in the new plans he felt the buffer transition between the commercial and residential area on Penrod Lane was not what the Board was seeking. Mr. Letourneau said he had opposed consideration of the proposal until it was revised. • Yrs. McGinn said she objected to the usage of the land and felt that "you can't abut a residential area with a C-2 usage". Mayor Miedtke read the formal request from Mr. Hedlund which included a request for a public hearing on a conditional use permit for a Country Kitchen restaur- ant to be built on 43,000 sq. ft. of the Hedlund property, Lots 10 through 16,