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Page 3 • 5. The necessary signage for a restaurant is not consistent with the residential neighborhood to the south. Voting on the motion: Aye: Sundland, Haik Nay: Stauffer, Sauer Motion not carried. CFia-i,rman Sundland then declared a recess from 8:28 to 8:45 P.M. An informative session conducted by fir. Fornell was held on the new zoning ordinance with Mr. Fornell illustrating the proposed changes with a slide presentation. Copies of the existing ordinance as well as the latest revision of the proposed ordinance were distributed and commented on by Council members, Planning Board members (Letourneau, Rymarchick, Hiebel and Cowan) who were present as well as Harry Lekson and interested residents. The final draft of the ordinance will contain revisions suggested by the City Attorney and Howard Dahlgren, Planning Consultant, and will be reviewed at a joint meeting of the Council and the Planning Board, tentatively set for P"onday, January 26th. At that meeting the date for a public hearing will be set. • Comments from the residents on the new ordinance were solicited with the request that their remarks be presented in written form so they could become a part of the imput considered by the Council in preparing the final draft of the ordinance. fir. Harold Henkel , who now resides in New Germany, Minnesota, said he felt the property he still owns on Chandler Drive should remain zoned Light Industrial since all the recent permits for that area had been granted under the existing zoning. Mrs. Chester Nelson, 3916 Macalaster Drive, opposed any change in the zoning of the undeveloped land across from Apache Plaza or for those parcels for which conditional use permits had been already granted. Mr. Orlyn l-J. Miller, 444 Upton Avenue North, of !,)ehrman & Chapman Associates, who wrote the North Study for that area, said he wished to provide the thinking of Mr. Gordon Hedlund, owner of a large tract of the above mentioned undeveloped strip, regarding the type of development of that land Mr. Hedlund felt would be compatible to the area and would at the same time provide some economical gain to him. Mr. Miller did not consider the contemplated zoning of the tract to R-4 as an economically feasible method of developing the land. Councilman Stauffer then pointed out that the conditional use permit issued for a retirement apartment building on a portion of that land was still in effect. is Mr. Miller said he would present in written form, Mr. Helund 's proposal for developing the land he owns in that area. Mr. Ray Sopcinski , 2524 St. Anthony Road, agreed to indicate on a copy of the ordinance any changes he felt should be made.