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Regular meeting August 8, 2005 the far north/northwest corner of this property and that would be a backyard that would abut this property. Mr. Wagner wanted to be sure he understood what the City Manger said that there was only one residential neighbor to this project. City Manager said there was residential on the north side, maybe one or two residential properties. Notices are sent out to anyone within 200 feet of proposed residential or commercial. City Clerk stated that notices were sent out even farther than required area. The GIS, electronic system lists all residents in 250 feet radius so actually even sent notices to residents that did not abut the property in discussion. Ms. Brot asked City Manager if the U-City’s Children’s Center is no longer located there and was it just an empty house now? City Manager agreed that it was not currently in use. Mr. Adams said that it will not be used for a while, as it will take a massive amount of money to bring it to code. Mr. Wagner said that the Children’s Center should then be registered on our vacant house ordinance list. The Council does not like boarded up house in U-City. Mayor Adams said that he was not sure if it is considered a house as it was zoned commercial. Mr. Wagner said that when you look at it, it looks like a house and you think it’s a house and it has been used as a house, but it is now zoned commercial. Mr. Wagner wanted to know if it is not a residential building, does it not have to be on U- City’s list of vacant houses. Mr. Wagner asked City Manager to research this and give Council an answer. If it was not, he wanted to be sure it was added. CITIZEN COMMENTS: Mae Etta Weston, 1595 Mendell Dr. – a resident for 36 years. She would like to speak on concerns of Bill 8806, which is the rezoning to expand Seafood City Market. Olive Street Rd, at one time, offered a variety of shopping options which offered a wide range of services that area residents could utilize. Most have been replaced with businesses that do not meet these same needs. Between April 2003 and March 2006, City Scape, a city publication, listed thirty new businesses along the 1.2 miles section of Olive Street Road, between North & South Rd. and McKnight Road. Of the thirty, 15 percent or a full 50 percent of these were businesses owned by, operated by, or cater to an Asian consumer. There are currently 39 Asian businesses operated in this section. China Town Square is advertising the addition of three new 1000 sq ft units. In spite of resident’s complaints, Olive Farmers Market is expanding and building a new three story retail/residential property. Of the thirty new businesses, spoken about earlier, eight were Asian restaurants, groceries, produce stores or seafood market. This area already has numerous Asian businesses, dealing with the same products. It appears to me that we have sufficient business of this type already existing. There seems little need to rezone to accommodate expansion of Seafood City. What we do have is a Page 4