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Dan Kovtynovich, 1595 Skyline Loop Drive, represented himself as e an engineering contractor. He had lived in the area for 30 years, and noted prior to annexation there had been a local organization which dealt with the maintenance of roads, the water system, which since annexation, EWEB is still using. Also, the organization donated five acres of land to the City as a park. He said the City Attorney was asked at that time to strike out the restrictive covenants attached to that particular piece of land, but the re- strictive covenants were not struck from other pieces of property. He felt the City should honor the deeds and covenants. Maxine Skates, 1500 Skyline Park Loop; spoke regarding the proce- dure of notification in general. She sai d noti ces in the 1974 Zdroy partition were sent only to landowners abutting the proper- ty owner, but she felt the criteria of the ordinances required by a minor partition that the contiguous property owners be also notified. The affected property owners were not notified, and she felt using the minor partition notification was a loophole used by the Planning Department. She said citizen input is requested by the City and questioned how that input could be received unless the property owners were notified. She also noted the Southeast Firs Neighborhood Association had not existed in 1974, but with the Clark minor partition they were still not notified through the organiza- tion. In fact, she said some people in the area were not aware they were members of a neighborhood organization. She said it seemed once the Planning Department had notified the neighborhood organi- zation it felt they had done their job. She said that process con- - stitutes telling the president of a neighborhood organization, who then has to find someone in the area being affected to pass on the i nformati on. She felt the City should come up with some better notification procedures. Peter Lorenz, 1185 Barber Drive, distributed a map to Council indi- cating the street system with the Clark and Zdroy partitions. He sai din 1974 the Zdroy project was accepted for partiti on by vi rtue of what was creation of streets. The street portion cuts through his own property twice, yet he had not been notified of the existing street system until 1977. He contended no street creation took place up to and through 1977. The City should not create streets without public input and without documentation. He questioned when the street was created and by what process and why property owners were not notified or asked for input. Jerry Stafek, of Iverson and Hughes, Inc., represented the seller and buyer of the property. He felt the opposition was basing its appeal on maintaining a certain character of this particular neigh- borhood. He said the dividing of large parcels in this small por- tion of the City would make little difference in its total character. The size of lots would be substantially larger than the average i n th e City. He felt the Planning staff had lived up to the South Hills Study in requiring that certain vegetation clearing restrictions be upheld and a covenant to this effect was insured by Mr. Clark. e 12/12/77 - 4 Q03