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e Councilman Haws said he understood the purpose of the motion but questioned whether two members of the Council should do that. He thought some persons other tQ~n Council members should try to resolve the issues with the two groups, because of de- mands on Council members' time for one thing, he said, and because the Council shouldn't become involved in solving neighborhood problems. He suggested appointment by the Mayor of two or three presidents of other neighborhood groups instead of Council members. Councilman Murray noted staff had worked on the issue without suc- cess, and he felt the Council should devote some time to it. In response to Mayor Anderson, he said he thought it appropriate for the Mayor to select the Council representatives. Vote was taken on the motion as stated. Motion carried - Council members Murray, Keller, Bea1, Williams, Bradley, and Shirey voting aye; Council members Hamel and Haws voting no. A short recess was taken. e C. Appeal from Planning Commission approval of Phase II-A, Oakway pun Preliminary approval given March 4, 1975 by the Planning Commission. Staff notes and minutes for that meeting were previously distributed to Council members and are made a part of this record by reference thereto. The development covers over 12 acres abutting Cal Young Road west of Oakway Road. Jim Saul, planner, reviewed the series of public hearings before the Planning Commission concerning the development of the area in conjunction with the reconstituted Oak way golf course. Because of concerns expressed with regard to open space in the development in relation to the surrounding neighborhood the design was changed in an attempt to meet those concerns. The redesign brought back to the Commission was given preliminary approval and is that which is the subject of this appeal. Assistant Manager noted that some of the Council viewed the development on tOUT. No ex parte contacts or other reasons for conflict of interest were declared by Council members. (1020) Public hearing was opened. Elizabeth Heath, 2087 Law Lane, thought people in the neighborhood were concerned about the departure of the development from the character of the area. They thought that the provision for buffering the development from the existing neighborhood did not adequately compensate for the difference in its character, and that the pro- posed density for the development was too high, that the open space used in calculat- ing the density was to be used as a golf course. She acknowledged that the build- ings immediately adjacent to the end of Law Lane were single-story, but said that the immediate rise to two- and three-story buildings negated the buffering effect. She thought the low-line development should be carried further through the development to provide more visual lines. The open space provision, she said, was the most im- portant feature. There.was no criteria now in pun regulations for open space and she thought there should be a standard of so much open space pe~. unit per acre and a definition of that open space. Precedent in that respect was being set in this development, she said. e Ms. Heath continued that there was no contractual agreement giving assurance of the specific density for the overall development, that the golf course was claimed as usable open space open to the general public as well as qualifying as open space on which to determine the density of the development. The golf course would pro- vide no diversity of use, also there would be a fee charged to use it. So she felt there was inadequate open space available to the development itself. She suggested as alternatives that the greater density be concentrated on the golf course side, and the lower density on the outer edges of this phase, and that the lower density structures be compatible with the existing neighborhood of one-story homes. Charles Sparks, 2093 Law Lane, said his home was purchased overlooking the golf course in a single-family occupancy area. This proposal would convert the character 2'0 4/28/75 - 5