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v 2 the Standard Station on 37th Avenue. , Mr. Marks reiterated the Board's objections to the proposal including their concern with the signage and possible traffic • generation by the Country Kitchen restaurant but their decision to reconvene the public hearing so that the residents might voice their sentiments about the ch angel in the proposal which Mr. Ernst planned to present to them prior to the next Board meeting. Mayor Miedtke said the Council would be willing, as far as they were able, to attend the meeting with tie neighbors which Mr. Ernst was scheduling. Mr. Marks indicated the Board had taken notice of the Council 's suggestion that the Board should officially indicate any objections on which they base a decision to deny similar requests. To indicate the Council 's approval of the Beard's decision to reconvene the Public Hearing Vie fo l l of-i r.g motion was made: Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sauer to authorize the Planning Board to reconvene at its October 21 meeting the Public Hearing on the Ernst proposal . Motion carried unanimously. The Council also indicated agreement with the recommendation that possible grade elevation changes should be taken into consideration when considering requests for signage. The Mayor also indicated agreement with the Board's premise that all zoning requests had to be considered under the present zoning ordinances and expressed his sympathy with the dilemma the Board was in when they received requests to rezone before the new zoning ordinance is approved. He said the Council 's decision making had also been affected in the same manner and was trying to facil- itate the adoption of the new ordinance. The special meeting of the Council scheduled for September 30th was designed, he said, to "wrap up" the considerat- ion of the zoning changes recommended by the Board with the revised ordinance then to be presented to the residents at public hearings. The Board was commended by the Mayor for delaying action on the Gould request until they had all the specifics of the proposal for a warehouse to be built on the Henkel property. Mr. Douglas Jones, 2505 Silver Lane, told the Council he had a petition signed by 14 property owners on that street which indicated they were willing to have the City take ownership of Silver Lane providing some commitment is made by the City to eliminate the heavy trafffic, most of which they felt was caused by other than city drivers and truckers who use the street for a thruway. He cited the traffic hazards encountered by residents backing onto the street from their driveways as well as by children, pedestrians and bicyclists. Possible remedies Mr. Ernst suggested were to make a cul-de-sac similar to that by which Brighton Avenue is cut off from Lowry Avenue; 25 MPH stop signs to slow down speeders as well as the use of radar and installation of bumps or dipsin the road surface. He also wanted traffic count taken on the street which would reflect the number of non-residents who use the street. • Mr. Joseph Rosinck, 2609 Silver Lane, a former member of the City Planning Board, said he was not in favor of turning the street back to the City but wondered what the City could do to pursuade Ramsey County to adopt better snow plowing methods suggesting that most of the snow could be thrown on the berm on the south side of the street.