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Mr. Marks and Mr. Rymarchick said they were agreement with the objections to the proposal which had been voiced by the residents of the neighborhood and felt the inherent activity of a restaurant made the proposal objectionable so near a residential neighborhood. Mr. Rymarchick also said he was not convinced that many of the potential restaurant customers would not choose Belden Drive or Coolidge Street to reach the restaurant in preference to fighting the traffic at the intersection of Silver Lake Road and 37th Avenue. Mr. Fornell also suggested Mr. Ernest to contact Ramsey County to ascertain whether they and any plans for channelization of the traffic down 37th Avenue which might interfere with his plans. Motion by Rymarchick and seconded by Mr. Bowerman to reconvene the Public Hearing on the Ernest proposal at the October 23, 1975 Board meeting and to waive further payment of fees since most of the expenses had been incurred and paid for with the first public hearing. Voting on the motion: Aye: Rymarchick, Cowan, Marks, Hiebel and Cowan Nay: Johnson Motion carried. Mr�-•Rymarchick and Mr. Bowerman, who had been delegated the investigation of a possible violation of the Board's intent in the manner in which the sign had been erected in front of the Herfurth Realty Company, recommended no further Board action because the sign is now visually acceptable following the elevation of the grade of Silver Lake Road in front of the property and the landscaping around the sign being done in an acceptable manner. Mr. Rymarchick said he did feel that in any future instance where a sign variance is requested in an area where regrading is anticipated, the sign should be erected after the grade is established. Mr. Clarence W. Gould, 1295 Oakcrest, Roseville, appeared to present his request for 1 a building permit to erect a steel warehouse designed primarily for storage but occasionally for repair of pipe organ parts on Lot 3, Block 1 , Henkel Addition. The lot which is 75 feet wide and 135 feet long is owned by Mr. & Mrs. Harold Henkel who appeared to support the request. Mr. Gould presented a colored brochure from the Lester Company portraying a prototype of the proposed building. The applicant said he was trying to find out whether a steel building would be acceptable since the cost of a masonry building would be prohibitive. He said his business would require a minimum of parking spaces since there was no customer traffic anticipated and there would only occasionally be 2 or 3 cars at the site. Mr. Johnson said he was personally acquainted with Mr. Gould's business which involved Moeller organs but he advised Mr. Bould that the Board would find it difficult to arrive at a decision without more specific data on his plans for parking, curb cuts and landscaping. It was Mr. Johnson's feeling however that a precedent for granting the request had been established with the Donatelle Machine Shop, the millwork shop and Happy's close by and he said it was his belief that the proposal would provide a reasonable usage of the land especially because of its low traffic generation.