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r: 472 Request was received from cottage grocery on his property on ~~ tion--just inside the City limits. ~\city and the lot zoned for limited ;.~ Board r-ecommends that this request ': ,;'~ Chet Lawson aSking for a permit to erect a Riverview Street--Lot 9, Block 7, Kincaid Park Ad i- There are no store facilities in this part of th business is to be used for the new highway. The be referred to the Planning Commission. I Request was also received from Ray Hegberg asking for a permit to erect an ~addition, also a three car garage at Cox's Potato Chip Factory at 263 Ferry Street. ~JMr. Hegberg is asking for a permit to waive the building requirements covering the ('2 construction of such a building in the limited space on his property. The Board 52 recommends that the request be denied and the recommendation was unanimously approve . I Communication was presented fromR. N. Stevenson asking the council's consideration in taking the necessary steps to have the alley on22nd Street between Hilyard and Alder Street vacated. It was pointed out that a previous vacation of th alley was not a legal transaction and Mr. Stevenson had bought an adjoining lot supp ing the alley had been vacated. If it were vacated, it would increase the size of ~his lot by seven feet. The matter was referred to the Street' Committee to report ba 53 at the next council meeting. Request for a $7.50 refund because of an overpayment for sidewalk repairs 54' presented from Fred Wull schle gel' and granted. Request was received from the Rugh Realty Company for a refund of $9.71 \ which they had paid for sidewalk repairs and which the owner of the property, Mary 55 Barker, had also paid. Upon motion made and seconded the refund was granted. A letter was read from Robert H. Lemon, City Auditor for the year 1941. He called attention to the fact that the recorded council minutes had not been ffianua ly signed, only the officer's name being typed in. City Attorney Calkins said these minutes should be Signed by the Recorder or Acting Recorder. Upon motion made by Councilman Farrington, seconded by Councilman Hawn it was requested that Mr. Bryan be asked to sign the minutes the first time he returns to town and future minutes be signed as they are recorded. Mr. Lemon also pointed out that the city bills as pres- ented to to the Finance Committee were not signed by anyone as having received the merchandise and there was no indication on the bills that the extension of the vario s items had been ehecked. The Council instructed the Recorder's Office to have the bills initialed by someone in the future verifying the extensions and also the heads of the department or someone responsible must sign for having received the merchandise. 56 Otherwise, the bill is not to be okeyed by the Finance Committee and it was so ordere . I The following applications for curb cut permits were presented:No. 846 for ;Mike Dewey; No. 847 for OWB.n A. Thompson; No. 848 for K. D. Hironsl;- No. 849 for Ralp ~unsaker; No. 850 for Ivan J. Clark~ No. 851 for CarlD. Monro~; No. 852 for Scott Hastings; and No. 855 fmr ~r. E. C.Hun~. The City Engineer recommended that the abo e lcuts be grantad and upon motion made and seconded the recommendation was unanimously approved.Application for a curb cut permit was presented from Roy Hegberg, a cut of ~2 feet at 260 Ferry Street, and held up because the request for additional construc- I~ion at this location had been denied on the recommendation of the Board of Appeals. pplication for a curb cut permit was presented from the Salvation Army~a seven root cut at 702 Pearl Street. The City Engineer reported that the cut was made befor ~he application was applied for and the owner had full knowledge of the ordinance. pouncilmen Bond and Farrington both stated they thought something should be done regarding these curb cuts where work was done before the permit was granted and if th ,ptdinance carried a penalty clause, that in this case the penalty shoul~e imposed. Major Ford. of the Salvation Army was present at the meeting and took exception to the ~tatelnent that the work was done before the application was applied for but admitted ~e had cut the curb before securing the permit from the council. It was pointed out ~hat this situation had developed several times before with other curb cuts. Founcilman Stewart pointed out that this request was not for peFsonaluse but for the ~e of the Salvation Army and he moved that the penalty in thispase be waived. The 5?li:::::n~;;;;;;;d;~~b;~~;:~;;~:;:::;;~:;: ;~;;::i;~:~:;::~:;:~~~~i~~~l; ~~~~~c~~; ~0ut on March 13, for the same job. Upon motion made and seconde? the request was 58 granted. . II . Chief of Police Bergman reported he had investigated the barn on Elk Avenue WhiCh matter had been referred to him at a previous council meeting. He and City Attorney Calkins had contacted Mr. McDully, 'owner of the barn, and learned that goods were stored there at the present time but as soon as a suitable location could be 4 found, the gOQds would be removed and the barn torn down. This would be done not 59 later than within two or three months. ~ A resolution" transmi tting to the Planning Commission a proposal to extend t e boundary line of the ~ingle family residence district extending westerly in the aIle between 4th and 5th Avenue on Westerly to the center of Jefferson Street and thence orth in such a manner as to embrace all of Block 1, Harris Addition thus Changing ~he area from a single family residence district to a light industrial district bO was presented and adopted by the council. I I ~