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• a use somewhere between commercial and limited office but which would be closest to the office use. He warned the petitioners that under no circumstances would he ever vote for general commercial usage for this parcel. He would also not want a segmented shopping center which would compete with the existing shopping agea. Any use which would generate an offensive odor would also earn his opposition. Councilman Stauffer suggested that if there is no demand for exclusive use of the tract for service offices , as Mr. Daubney has contended, there might be for a mixture of residential and limited office uses. She felt the motion to deny the rezoning for commercial should be a signal to Mr. Hedlund that there is a general feeling in the Council of disapproval of any commercial use for the westerly portion of his land and agreed with Councilman Sundland that there are many uses set up under "B" (light office) in the ordinance which are more compatible to the residential neighborhood. She believes the Hedlund strip has to serve as a buffer between the commercial and residential and "just putting in trees does not do a good job of buffering" . The councilman pointed out that when the new zoning ordinance was written a category which was less then "commercial" was added and felt "service offices" or "multiple dwellings" would provide such a valid buffer. Mayor Miedtke said he might be more comfortable with a one story com- mercial building than a 4-story office building feeling a one or two story building is more in keeping with the intent of the ordinance. Motion by councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Sauer to re- quest the Planning Board and City staff to work with the concept that has been proposed by Mr. Hedlund to see if the plan can be fitted into the City's "PUD" category in the zoning ordinance. Voting on the motion: Aye: Sauer, Stauffer, Miedtke and Sundland Nay: Haik Motion carried. When Chairman Hiebel questioned the role the Planning Board would play and whether it was necessary to involve all the neighbors (12 of whom were present and did not speak) in what could result in a never ending series of public hearings, the Mayor said it was not the job of the City to design the plan but the onus was on the petitioners to incor- porate the directions they had received from the evening's discussion and prepare the proposal and any supporting documents for City staff reaction and with the proposal then sent for confirmation to the Planning Board who will in turn give their recommendations for action on the proposal to the Council. He then commended the Chairman and the Board for the excellent job they had done in handling the public • hearing on the Hedlund request. (4)