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Session 1719, Minutes April 13, 1998 Councilmember to #19 Willow Hill, to see the damage that the expansion of the Gatesworth would have on their property and, to her knowledge, only Mr. Wagner had done this. Ms. Holekamp said that it would be necessary to journey to Willow Hill in order to properly address the concerns of the Willow Hill neighborhood for this expansion. In both a letter and at the public hearing, she provided each Councilmember and each zoning member with a letter stating that there would be a $35,000 property loss which she felt constituted significant detriment. For the record, she reminded Council that at the public hearing on March 30th , she requested that Council provide facts of finding and conclusions of law prior to the decision on the conditional use permit so that it could be evaluated in a court of law or a court of equity at a future date. She told Council that if they approve this with the current setback, they plan to go to the Board of Adjustment. She said that the owner of the Gatesworth's private home also does not meet a rear yard setback requirement. She said if they fail their appeal to the Board of Adjustment, they will sue the City Council. A.J. Chivetta, #35 Loren Woods, said that this expansion is being looked at under the light of a very old comprehensive plan and with poor planning. He said Council was in a unique position in pondering whether to allow a commercial multi family office building to creep into a zoned single residential neighborhood. He felt, though, that to allow it was not necessarily good planning and robs the expectancy of the neighbors living there of the character of their neighborhood. He stated for the record, that the Planning Commission did not care very much about the impact on Ladue, so he is asking Council to consider the impact on the existing neighborhoods in University City as well as in Ladue. He recommends that the Council postpones any rezoning from single residential use until the City has a chance to look at its long range plan. Ann Byrnes, 18 Willow Hill Rd., said that if the Council votes approval of the rezoning, then it will be even easier to slip in the conditional use permit. She does not believe the rezoning is at all adaptable. She mentioned that the Plan Commission minutes were not correct. This means the Council's information is in error. She said that the new expansion was less than one-fifth of the size of the present Gatesworth, and pointed out that this could not represent a very large amount in revenue. She asked that the second and third readings be tabled until a later time. Ms. Lana Weinbach, 8720 W. Kingsbury, requested that Council simply vote against the rezoning. If not that, then she requested that Council table the vote for rezoning until a later date. There is a definite link between the conditional use permit and the rezoning. There is still too many questions that have been unanswered and not investigated with respect to the conditional use permit. Since amendments proposed to the zoning code will be discussed at the May 4th Council meeting, she did not believe it would be proper to approve rezoning until these were finalized. The bill should be tabled. She said that there were gross inaccuracies in the approved planning