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• Page 2, Paragraph 1: Substitute "original appropriations therein" for "increased appropriations" . Page 2 , Paragraph 2 : Substitute RESOLUTION "77-049" for "77-047" . RESOLUTION 77-049 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE 1977 TAX LEVY, COLLECTIBLE IN 1978 Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve the minutes for the 1978 Budget Hearing meetings as corrected. Motion carried unanimously. The Council then considered as an Agenda Addendum the request for a new banking facility for the State Bank of St. Anthony Village which had been tabled September 27, 1977. Recommendations of the Planning Board regarding the proposal as con- tained in the Board' s minutes of September 20th were considered by the Council . Site plans and a model of the proposed banking facility which is to be built at the corner of Kenzie Terrace and Stinson Boulevard N.E. , were presented by Wil Johnson, Project Architect, with supporting • comments from the bank' s senior Vice President, Jim Philpott, and President, Don Farber. Mr. Johnson read his memorandum of September 16th and reiterated the justifications he saw for the City granting the requested Conditional Use Permit for an eight lane remote teller drive-in facility as well as a Variance to the number of parking space requirements set for "general commercial usage" in the City Zoning Ordinance. He did not believe a strict application of the parking space requirements should be made in this case since 90% of the banking customers will use the drive-in facility and only about 15, 000 square feet, or approximately half the floor space of the three level building, will "support actual people" . The former Planning Board member answered Councilman Sundland's con- cerns about parking accomodations for staff by telling him the bank will continue its practice of encouraging its employees , a good number of whom walk to work, not to use the parking spaces which might be needed for customers. He said there will be fewer employees at the new facility since a number will remain to staff the existing facility in the shopping center and if, as anticipated, there is an- other detached facility in the Apache area, this will provide a further reduction. Even if the bank should realize its projected growth in ten years , it will always be an economic necessity for the owners to provide ample automobile accomodations for its customers . and the Council can be assured that they will either rent or buy more land as soon as a need becomes evident. (2)