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Session 1719, Minutes ! 0 April 13, 1998 to the neighborhood in U. City do not a good neighbor make. She has a collection of codes, both municipal and zoning, for University City, that have, over the past decade, since most recently this past week, have been in violation by our neighbor. One of them has to do with waste material and junk that is in the fire code. A violation has been served. She has photographs to show Council. (Given to City Clerk for distribution to the Council) Included in the photographs are two pictures of the investigator, Mr. Howse, who came out last Friday.' She asked the Mayor if she should read the codes. The Mayor said she could site them, but not read them and that she had another minute left to speak. Continuing, Ms. Katz said that there was a lighting violation. They have made numerous phone calls that have been recently taken care of. What she is trying to get at is that the buyout, which she has a list of people who attended a traffic commission meeting, two of them back in 1996, are members of the community that were bought out. One of them, David Campbell, the house on Barby Lane, was the initiator of the petition. Five of the eight people that were bought out were actually on the list of one of these meetings. She presented last week a letter from one of the people that was bought out, Sandy Vinyard. She will be glad to submit her documentation to Council if needed to see a running commentary that preceded the traffic commission meetings and violations. She would like to say that between parking, lighting, debris, trash and fire violations, she would encourage Council to reconsider the rezoning. She would find it difficult to understand how, until violations reach a pitch of protest, there never seems to be any action by the Gatesworth. No active on-going stewardship. Is this a good neighbor? Why should disregard of the municipal and zoning codes over a decade allow for rezoning to benefit the guilty. Ms. Shirley Katz, 8708 W. Kingsbury, is reading a letter from her mother, Melan Price, 8672 W. Kingsbury, who is ninety-eight years old and unable to attend. In a letter, Ms. Price cited her background as immigrants from Austria to new home owners on W. Kingsbury. She wanted to know what would happen to West Kingsbury to the east, because she wanted to have the street open to thru traffic, in order to access emergency vehicles quickly. She did not like it that so many strangers were invading her property to place sticks in her yard and along the street. She asked Council to please let her and her neighbors know what was happening. Ms. Nancy Holekamp, #19 Willow Hill Rd., said that at the City Planning Commission public hearing on Wednesday, March 25th, the commission called for a study on condition sixteen, which was a study of the south property line setback. Ms. Holekamp replied that the Planning Commission was doing the study, yet it had not been done. Ms. Holekamp said that it appears to her that if the zoning commission, in a public hearing, said that they were going to carry out a study of the setback, that they should be held accountable for what they say they will do. The Mayor said that she was right and that one would be done before the conditional use permit was dealt with. Her second issue is that at the public hearing on Monday, March 30th, she invited every