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narrow,
lot division
By MELANIE WAAGE turned
the city about the loss down
S\ An application requesting to home were to be builtonthe split lot. than
hThe san only
ordinance.
Q` divide one lot into o denied bytheAbdel Azizrto
Maplewood City Council was at its home seven feet omdthe property line on requires two readings s whileence between the
the new Procedures will be that an ordinance
�,� Maeting. Abdel R. May the south,instead of the original five feet. requires only one.This change
ween council
Stillwater bAbdel Aziz, 2502 This would save two large trees.Also, he two to three weeks a resolution
4) the Rd., Maplewood, was making suggested removingonlycould save
request,plus he wanted approval of a the treesgthat meetings for the applicant and would save
rear yard setback variance and a garage would be in the way of the moved garage time on council agendas. If the council
deration,the
setback variance.The lot presently and saving other trees that would be in feels time is needed for
single dwelling and a garage eon if,has a front of the house.
eeting.
Abdel move thegarage Councilman Don item can always be tabled aunt l a later
thought the lot could be divided and still mNo one spoke against the change,
to the firstlAzizlot,wanted to toho residence.etThe meet h city code. said he
garage would have had only an eight-foot
setback from Sterling Street. Maplewood f "I don't think we should restrict council voted in favor approved for it so the
• cityekrequires Ste a 30-foot setback lewoom a from using their property for building."
The councilrt be locatedcd a bid for a double
right-of-way.coderequ AbdelP Y g' tennis Thet contracto foat Ia ecst
Aziz also Greavu moved to deny the motion, and
it-of- a . Aydel setback soiance Norm Anderson seconded. The motion awardedafor asphalt was
N�1 Again,requestingcity acrede rd a depth of i20s passed 3 to 2, to andT. A.the ontra in foruamount
cent of the total lot requiresque .Abdel Aziz would Earl Nelson and Don
per Wingert voting against. of $10,351, contract fencing
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`, cent a variance of r28e feet. After a requestwas awarded ton l set ayclone Fencing ect
"I don't feel there is enough room to by the Maplewood city $5,317. The council seta total
council, the city staff developed
move a car in and out of there," Procedure to speed up theprocessingP a budget at $17,930.90. Project
movn a a r naid. `°Ireofl Mayor for development applicat oThe staff The included the
will work." Y don t think it recommended that the council fencing and asphalt, $1,762.50 for color
coating and $500frfor the miscellaneous. This
Residents living near the lot had written rezoning applications and amendmtprocess will Improvement eabudg 1979 Park Capital
the zoning ordinance as resolutions rather HECObudget.
THE COUNCIL ALSO APPROVED a
■ bid for lights at Goodrich Park. L.P.D.
. Electric was awarded the bid for$46,890
The council set a project budget of$50,090.
IN NEW BUSINESS, attorney Michael
DeCourcy, representing Robert Hulke,
1820 White Bear Ave., appeared before
the council to voice his client's position
about an unfair zoning situation.
Hulke owns a piece of property which is
zoned residential located next to Hejny
Rental's at 1829 White Bear Ave. Hejny
operates a multi-use rental agency.
Hulke,DeCourcy said,believes the zoning
situation is unfair to himself and other
property owners adjacent to the Hejny
Property. -$:*a y
"This concerns a conditional variance
Hejny received some 25 years ago,"
DeCourcy said."He has just been allowed
to operate his business with no recourse.
Yet, other neighbors can't get any
rezoning of their properties to operate
businesses.
"The two suggestions I would make to
the council would be to either give con-
sideration to the neighbors to rezone to
business commercial, or make all the
properties along the block residential."
COUNCILMAN NORM Anderson told
the council he had drafted two letters to
circulate in the area to determine who
wants residential and who wants com-
mercial. He had not done so by meeting
time.
"The problem is we never had the
chance to tell them how else to operate,"
councilman Don Wiegert said."If there is
a specific problem in how they are
operating, we would want to know."
No action was taken on the matter, but
the council urged Anderson to circulate
the two letters,and they would take up the
matter again.
IN OTHER BUSINESS the council
looked at a staff report concerned with a
fire station being constructed on lower
Afton Road and Londin Lane. The East
County Line Fire Department has urged
the city to provide funding for the con-
struction of a fire station identical with
the one constructed at County Road C and
Hazelwood.
"We can improve our response time 10
minutes if we have this new facility,"
dispatcher Duane Williams told the
council. "With a person having a heart
attack, we can improve the breathing
time by four to five minutes,which is very
crucial.
"We have found about six persons in-
terested in joining the department.We've
gone house to house to get applicants and
the citizens are very interested."
The East County Line Fire Department
indicated that if necessary, they will
support a referendum for general
obligation bonds for this facility. The
estimated cost would be about $350,000.
Councilman Wiegert said other means
of financing should be looked into. The
matter was tabled, and referred to the
city staff for study.
HARRY ZACHO appeared before the
council to attempt to have sewer
assessments on property on Lakewood
Drive dismissed. His argument to the
council was the property was assessed
before he bought the property. The
original assessment was made in 1960. It
was then deferred until 1971. Zacho said
that when the matter then came before 1
the council,in 1971,he was never notified.
The area he is disputing the assessment
for is 20 feet of Lakewood Drive frontage.
It is swamp land and unusable for
building.
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