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combined with the other two lots on Bland which are zoned commercial, one vacant and one with a resident) and become one mega commercial area. Jean O’Hagan, 7374 Northmoor Mr. O’Hagan encourages the Council to give Mr. Erker a special use permit for a time period. He does not have any objection for Mr. Erker’s use of the property but along with the rest of the residents, he can see the problem of its commercial use in the future. Gregg Grigaitis, 7253 Northmoor Mr. Grigaitis has been a resident there for 16 years. He stated that there are a dozen children in the block area. Hypothetically the one parcel could merge with the other parcels zoned commercial and would be imminently accessible from Forest Park Parkway. He requested that this zoning not go forward. Wes Frazer, 7377 Northmoor Mr. Frazer said he was in agreement with all of the previous neighborhood speakers. He said he was the single one trying to move from a larger house in the area to this piece of property. He said that it is perfect for a single person. Mr. Michael O’Neil sent a letter to Ms. Brot to be read as he was unable to attend the meeting. Ms. Brot said that he confirmed what all of the other residents were saying, but in addition, Mr. O’Neil said that the driveway was below grade and can only accommodate two cars and would make ingress and egress to and from the driveway very difficult. Ms. Brot commented on the dimensions the U City zoning code requires for General Commercial. The zoning code for General Commercial required a much larger overall dimension than what this property has. She wondered how the Plan Department approved this and later found out that it was passed as a non-conforming use. Therefore, she urged her colleagues to vote against this property being rezoned to commercial. Mr. Sharpe, Jr., asked Ms. Feier if a variance could be issued for this property. Ms. Feier said that there are variances for allowances but they are considered dimensional. An example would be if a resident wanted to build a deck three feet instead of five feet off your property line, the Board of Adjustment could approve this. There are no variances that could apply to this property. The conditional-use permit is not appropriate here either. Ms. Feier agreed with a comment made by a resident previously that this address is not the only address on Bland; there are more families living in the Clayton part on Bland. Ms. Feier said that this should be put in the file. Ms. Ricci said she sat on the Plan Commission when this was approved. She said that this was not a non-conforming use but was rather grandfathered in. She said that when she was sitting on the Plan Commission she was not aware nor were the others aware that this was a one way street. Given the new information, Ms. Ricci moved to deny the rezoning to commercial. Her second alternative would be to kick this back to the Plan Commission to see if they would have a better recommendation to allow the Erkers to do what they wished with their property and then would return to residential.