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P CITY OF ST. ANTHONY PLANNING BOARD MTNUTE16 • June 1811974 The meeting was called to order by Chairman McGinn at 7:37 P.M. The following were present for roll call: Johnson, Kronk, Lctourneau, McGinn and Marks. Absent: Carlson The Board noted with regret the reception and acceptance of the resignation of Mr. Trowell Thompson from the Board following his election to the School Board. The following amendment was made to the minutes of May 21, 1974 Planning Board Meeting: Page 2,Para. 1: The addresses of the two Sroga lots should be 3200 and 3204 Roosevelt St. N.F. Motion by Mr. Marks and seconded by Mr. Johnson to approve the minutes of May 21, 1974 as amended. Motion carried. The Public Hearing on granting a conditional use permit to Mr. Phillip Sularz to build a room on the front of his home at 2524 St. Anthony Boulevard opened at 7:39 P.M. Mr. Sularz explained his request was for a room and not a porch to be added in front of the breezeway on his house which would "square off that corner and roof". Mr. & Mrs. John Thorin who live next door to Mr. Sularz at 2528 St. Anthony Blvd. were present and were represented by Mr. Robert Johnson, an attorney, who ex- pressed the Thorin's "strenuous objections" to the addition stating that it would cut off the Thorin's vision from three windows on the side of their house next to the Sularz home and would diminish the value of their home. He also stated that according to a surveyors sketch which they did not present, the Sularz home would now be only 3.7 ft from the lot line dividing the two homes. .Mr. Sularz stated that he had built the home 22 years before the Thoring had moved to their home next door and Mr. Kronk observed that if the room had been added then it would have been in compliance with the building ordinances and would come under the "Grandfather Clause" of the present city ordinances. Mrs. McGinn read a letter from Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Kausel, 2525 St. Anthony Blvd. which is across the street from the Sularz home. They contend that the "construct- ion minimums were disregarded when the home was built" and thereby "brought the value of the homes on St. Anthony Blvd. down". They also stated that "That house never should have been built on St. Anthony JDlvd." The public hearing was closed at 7:47 P.M. • Following a discussion by the Board and those present on whether the new addition would defeat the City of St. Anthony's intention of creating open spaces between houses and the possibility of the room being built farther back where the breeze- way was now and not cutting off vision from the Thorin house, the following motion was made: 1