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Page 2 • Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to adopt Resolution 75-045. RESOLUTION 75-045 A RESOLUTION MODIFYING THE 1975 BUDGET Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Richard Ernst of the R.C.E. Corporation then appeared and presented plans for a Country Kitchen reste-urant which he proposed to build on approximately the north 117 feet of the commercial lot of the Standard Oil Station at 37th and Silver- Lake Road. He requested the parcel be replatted to allow all the iand north and within two feet of the present gas station to be used for the restaurant which would have an access from Silver Lake Road and parking space provided on a part of the land on 37th Avenue which is owned by American Monarch. The Council and Manager indicated their concern with the possible congestion of Silver Lake Road which might result from the traffic generated by the restaurant, the advisability of limiting the parking spaces for the service station and whether there would be enough side yard maintained for fire protection. There ►vas also speculation of how the plans for upgrading that intersection by Ramsey County might affect this proposal . It was also pointed out by several of the Council that Mr. Ernst's plans for using part of the undeveloped land to the west of the station for parking for the restaurant would probably require a change in zoning to C-2 which had met with such strenuous opposition from the neighbors and would open the door to pressure to change the zoning for other undeveloped lots along 37th Avenue. Mayor Miedtke said one of his reasons for opposing the plan was he felt the Council who had authorized the joining of Lots 2 and 3 into one lot for the construction of the service station in 1969 had implied a restriction against splitting those two lots. T!ie developer said his conversations with the onwers of the station did not Indicate that this was the intent of the Council at that time - the station was in existance before the land was zoned. He also contended that not all zoning lines followed lot lines in the City. He also said his plans to proceed with his intentions to use the remainder of the undeveloped land east of American Monarch for service office space should preclude the possibility of some other developer applying pressure to have the lots rezoned for heavy commercial use. Motion by Mayor Miedtke, seconded by Councilman Sauer to table action until the January 13th Council meeting on the Ernst request to replat the land owned by Standard Oil north of their station on the northwest corner of Silver Lake Road and 37th Avenue N.E. to allow the construction of a Country Kitchen • Restaurant on the land in order that the Manager might furnish further inform- ation regarding the 1969 Council 's intent regarding land density of the lots in question, Ramsey County's plans for upgrading the intersection of Silver Lake Road and 37th, and to allow him to get a legal opinion on whether the land west of the Standard Station would have to be rezoned to C-2 to accomodate the proposed parking lot.