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Regular meeting May 23, 2005 policy would be to treat sales as tobacco sales are treated, requiring anyone under the age of 27, or he would recommend 30, to be carded. His understanding is that the crowd there is usually not younger, except at the midnight show. The nature of the films shown determines the audience. Monitoring will be by means of a separate concession stand and by means of employee monitoring if there are questions about individuals seated together. Reputations are at stake, so they will be very strict. Every effort will be made to ensure that control is maintained. The measure passed with a unanimous vote, subject to approval of the ordinance and the issue with not selling alcohol during the late show. Aqenda Item #4 - 7018 Forsyth Site Plan The City Manager recommended approval of the site plan submitted by Chabad Lubavitch of Greater St. Louis permitting the conversion of the first floor of this apartment building for use as a sanctuary, library, assembly and related religious oriented uses. Two apartments on the second floor would remain although they may be combined into a single residence in the future. This is similar to other uses in this block which is otherwise primarily residential. Conditions include acceptance of this not-for- profit ownership and that parking shall be provided on premises for visitors, employees and residents and that they be strongly encouraged to use the off street parking to avoid added burdens on the limited on-street parking available in this neighborhood. Ms. Welsch moved approval and Mr. Sharpe seconded the motion. Stuart Zimbalist, 8124 Amherst Avenue, the applicant, came to address the issue and answer any questions. This building is ideal for use by Washington University students because of its location. It will have less vehicular use by students and that is why this building is proposed for this use. The impact of the University is felt strongly along this area of Forsyth. Ms. Welsch asked how many spaces there are, and the answer was currently there are four, but there are plans to add more. They will use the first floor only, and residential tenants will live above. If the second floor is converted at a later date, it will be necessary to pay real estate taxes; if it is used entirely for religious purposes it will be exempt from real estate taxes. She had been concerned about the possibility of this moving parking over to Big Bend, but it sounds like most of the people will be walking. She would like to ask Mr. Ollendorff to suggest to the Traffic Commission that they look at limiting parking as one comes over the crest of Big Bend north, because the line of sight is very poor there. She accepts; however, that she doesn't believe that Mr. Zimbalist's application will affect this problem further. Ms. Brot thanked Mr. Zimbalist for attending this evening. She urged her colleagues to vote for this and said those attending services here will be Orthodox Jewish students Page 8