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have paid their taxes. She wondered if it were possible to cut the e zoning off from Washington to Chambers and keep the C-2 zoning. She noted she wanted to sell the property and wanted to be protected. She felt as close as the property was between Lincoln and Lawrence, it would become commercial anyway, as it was so close to the downtown. She felt she could sell her property for a higher value if it were zoned C-2 rather than MU. Margaret Ellis, 2486 Grovedale Drive, Springfield, owns property at 276 West 12th. She wondered why, when people have to be housed, it has to be at the expense of a few people who happen to own property in the area in which it is wished to have them housed. She felt low-income housing should be the responsibility of everyone in the city and the city should not rely on zoning as means of housing people who are unable to afford their own homes. She asked why she should be more responsible for housing than people who live in other areas of the city. Public hearing was closed, there being no further testimony presented. Mr. Saul prefaced his response to testimony raised by telling Council the comments made at the time of the public hearing had been made at great length before the Planning Commission and were not new informa- tion. In response to Mr. Stafford and Mr. Murray's request for R-4 permits with conditional use procedures, he said the Planning Commis- sion rejected this for several reasons. The specific development - standards were incorporated in the mixed-use zone to address the problems faced in an R-4 District. He said the mixed-use'zoning does incorporate more severe and more restrictive developmental standards than R-4. Another reason for rejecting this idea was that the mixed- use zoning is to encourage high density and the Planning Commission and staff felt it wrong to put impediments in the way of high-density development. In response to Mr. Hershner's remarks regarding Wyatt's, he said the mixed use would affect only the north side parcel on West 11th. Wyatt's existing tire service is on the south side and would not be affected. He said the affected lot was primarily a vacant lot used for parking with a warehouse at the rear of the property. He said that operation is non-conforming in a C-2 District or an R-4 zone. The tire recapping use is what makes it non-conforming. Also, that particular lot is part of an entire block recommended for rezoning. He reviewed for Council that the area was primarily now devoted to housing, citing a 48-unit apartment complex to accommodate the elderly being planned immediately east of the Wyatt property. . 9/26/77--6 l~