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e Motion by Mr. Cowan and seconded by Mr. Bowerman to hold a public hearing on the request for a side yard variance to allow Mr. Ray Sopcinski to construct a garage on his residence at 2524 St. Anthony Road. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Dick Ernest of the R.C.E. Corporation presented site plans for his request for re- zoning the property between the American Monarch building and Standard Station on 37th Avenue N.E. to allow the construction of two buildings for which the Planning Board had previously had withheld approval . The new site plans had been modified to provide a safer traffic pattern than the plan presented to the Council August 19th. Mr. Ernest said modifications included eliminat- ing the driveway which separated the proposed service office building and the Country Kitchen restaurant-office building, moving the office building further to the east and providing an internal driveway behind which linked the driveways to the west of the office building and east of the restaurant. This driveway system would be 25 feet wide to allow two way traffic and was modified so that restaurant customers exiting to the east could avoid a direct exit onto the busy intersection of Silver Lake Road and 37th Avenue. Mr. Ernst said the changes also precluded an exit onto Belden Drive. Moving the two buildings closer to each other had allowed some of the parking spaces to be moved from the front and east side of the restaurant to the west side of the office building and would therefore enable the developer to place 35 feet of greenery along the boulevard on 37th Avenue. Mr. Ernest said the Country Kitchen owners had also agreed to providing reflective glass on the 37th Avenue side of the restaurant to eliminate the objections of Mr. Art Thompson to "having to look right into the dininroom when he looked out his front windows". When Mr. Ernest said his request involved only land usage and he felt the signage was the responsibility of the restaurant owners Mr. Marks and Mr. Johnson pointed out the City's experience with business requests for signage after the buildings had been constructed because they claimed they lacked proper identification and suggested it •was to Mr. Ernst's advantage to get the point settled first for fear the restaurant owners might find later that their decision to lease the building was contingent upon their being allowed to erect the interstate type of sign which is their trademark. Other changes in the plans as indicated by Mr. Ernest were the concrete curb between the restaurant and the service station and a change in the location of the storage trash addition. Mr. Bowerman said the timetable for erecting the restaurant prior to the office building, which he considered the most desireable portion of the proposal , bother, I him and Mr. Ernst said he anticipated starting the second building almost immedi tf,ly after the foundation for the restaurant was in. Mr. JOpppp said his opposition to the proposal was based on fear that the traffic genera.tjpp from the restaurant would result in further congestion of the Silver Lake Road rsection and would probably increase the traffic down Belden Drive. He said he was also concerned about the annoyance the neighbors might experience from the headlights of restaurant customers as well as cooking odors, the hours of operation and problems with signage for the restaurant. Mr. Hiebel said that in addition to these points he was concerned that rezoning this tract to commercial would open the door to future commercial usage of other undeveloped land in the area. He also did not like the restaurant building being constructed be- fore the office building.