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Regular Meeting March 28, 2005 although his plans were described as a “small impact to their neighborhood” it is still an impact to their neighborhood and she wants them to be involved. Mr. Wagner then asked how many residential units would be included and Mr. Yang said that each floor will be identical: on the west wing there are three residential units and on the east there are nine, so the total is twenty-four units. Ms. Welsch asked the City Manager why the Hafner residents were not advised of the hearing or when they had received notice. Mr. Ollendorff said that the City Clerk mailed notices to all addresses within the prescribed distance of three hundred feet and those probably were mailed about ten days ago. The City Clerk advised they were mailed fifteen to eighteen days ago. Mr. Ollendorff said he remembered a list of about twelve or fourteen addresses notified. Ms. Welsch said that the people were notified then, but Mr. Ollendorff noted that it was the people within the appropriate distance, but what happens is that other people outside of the notification distance learn of the issue. The City Manager said that in this instance, he went further than was required, at the request of Councilmember Colquitt, and it was a full city block distance to make sure those who were most immediately affected were notified. Possibly some resident at the far north end of Hafner Court did not receive a notice. Mr. Sharpe asked if the notice was for the Plan Commission meeting or for the Public Hearing at tonight’s City Council meeting and was advised it was the latter. Mr. Ollendorff said what Ms. Colquitt had reminded the Council this evening was that at the last City Council meeting the City Manager had asked the Council to set this Public Hearing and the Council did so. Ms. Colquitt asked then that the notification be extended beyond the normal boundary and notify residents within a block of the property. Ms. Welsch said she would defer to Ms. Colquitt at this point. Mr. Ollendorff added that what the Council just heard from the applicant was in direct response to the residents. The only objection they raised was their objection to ingress and egress off of their residential street, Hafner Place. The applicant agreed and notified the City of a new revised plan to delete an ingress or egress from and to Hafner Place, as requested by the residents. There may be other concerns, but this is the only one the City was aware of and the applicant has addressed this concern. Ms. Colquitt said the other concern was that so many residents telephoned her to say they are not familiar with the development and out of fairness to them, she wants them to know what is proposed and for the developer to work with them. She asked that when development is brought to the community that abuts with residents’ homes, that “we be friendly with each other because they live there. These individuals on Hafner have been in their homes many years and they take pride in their property” and she wants the developer to be a “friendly neighbor and speak with them about what they are bringing into their neighborhood.” Page 6