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The owners of Dege Garden plants in the parking lot in pre- uncooperative with neighbors
Center, 831 Century Ave. N., vious years, he said, with no who did complain.
must comply with conditions of complaints. Council members said they
their special use permit that al- Dege said a fenced-off area did not want to revoke the spe-
lovir only customer parking in near the building, where plants cial use permit, but agreed that
thgir parking lot, the Maple- are displayed, cannot be used Dege was in violation of the
wood City Council said last for parking anyway. conditions.
week. He said he had heard only one. City Manager Michael Miller
THREE neighboring residents complaint from a neighbor said Dege would need a zone
asked last week that Dege's per- about the greenhouse and did change in order to sell plants in
mid be revoked because of activ- not know some of the other ac- the parking area.
ities on the parking lot, located tivities were problems. The loudspeaker, council
at Mayhill Road and 7th Street, The neighbors said, however, members noted, is legal, though
that included sale of merchan- that Dege had continually vio- neighbors would have recourse
dise from a plastic greenhouse, lated the conditions of the spe- under the city's public nuisance
sale and display of gravel and cial use permit and had been ordinance after certain hours.
railroad ties and storage of a
commercial dumpster.
The city staff already has red-
tagged the greenhouse, and the
•dumpster has been moved, i t
was noted in staff report.
Requesting a review of Dege's
permit were Anthony Cahanes,
2703 E. 7th St.; Don Gochlecht,
825 Mayhill Road; and Irving
Dreher, 814 Mayhill Road. Two
other residents on 7th Street said
they had no complaints about
the garden center.
RESIDENTS also complained
that Dege employes demonstrate
lawn mowers and rototillers on
nearby vacant property, that a
loudspeaker has been installed
outside the building to page em-
ployes and that commercial ve-
hicles have been parked in the
lot.
Dege's uses of the parking lot,
residents said, amounts to "de
facto rezoning" of the land from
residential to commercial. •
They said the various uses of
the lot also were decreasing the
amount of parking space avail-
able and forcing drivers to park
on the street.
GEORGE DEGE, however,
said the greenhouse was in-
s t a 1 1 e d' to protect bedding
plants, which he said make up
one-third of the company's
business during the summer
months. Dege has sold bedding