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requires the preservation of worthwhile distinctive qualities in e the neighborhood and it was felt the neighborhood now has those. With the Clark partition, the norm of lot sizes in the neighborhood would be changed and threaten those qualities and therefore was contrary to public policy. He said the City contends it does not enforce covenants, but the Planning Department required Clark to enter into covenants in the deed of the partitioned land. He felt this was testimony that the City at least enforces the existence of covenants. He requested City Council to deny the minor partition and asked the Planning Commission to provide adequate notice, not just to neighborhood organizations but to all owners of land affected when future applications come in for land use. Marilyn Papich, 1309 West Fourth, is a property owner and building a home in the Skyline Loop area. She used a map to describe to Council the street areas affected. She said the proposed plan would cut up twenty acres of land. She said in the Zdroy 1974 case, the owner wished to build a house and was denied that wish until he agreed to donate land to a system of roads. She felt the Planning Commission was saying the road system had already been created and Clark was not in violation because the road system had already been created. She noted notification of property owners in the area was very poor, as only three property owners close to Zdroy had received notification and the others had not. Lloyd Brown, 1210 Barber Drive, represented the Southeast Firs Neigh- e borhood Association. He noted the organization had been formed in the Spring of 1976. Prior to that time, there was no organization in the area. Therefore, property owners had little notification of any processes by the City affecting their property. He noted the Southeast Firs Neighborhood Association was trying to follow through and notify people within the neighborhood of City actions. He said Planning Department had been very cooperative in giving him access to records. However, he expressed the desire that the Planning Department send letters to notify the neighbors in the area of what was occurring. He felt esp'ecially after annexation there should have been some process used by the City to notify property owners of what was occurring in the neighborhood. He felt some promises had been made prior to the annexation, but were not written down and could not be proven. He said now the area was facing an entire change by the minor partition. He said Mr. Zdroy was forced to create a street, and he felt the Planning Department was determining the law of the City without public hearings, and he felt that was wrong. He read a motion from the Southeast Firs Neighborhood Association in which they unanimously approved going on record in support of and endorsement of the Skyline Park opposition to the proposed Clark subdivision, and support of the position that covenants to deeds should be enforced. 12/12/77 - 3 e ~~