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Session 170 I, Minutes July 7, 1997 restrictions, and even beyond that, the zoning ordinance. He will stick by his motion and urge a vote of denial on this and then come back with a better instrument to vote on. Mayor Adams said that he would support a change that would not be precedent setting, in order to deal with each request individually. He would not like to see fifty requests coming before Council. Mayor Adams called the question, which was "Shall Council vote to deny the conditional use amendment?". Mr. Wagner and Mr. Munkel voted Aye, except Mr. Ware, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Schoomer and Mrs. Thompson, who voted Nay. The motion failed two to four. Mr. Schoomer made a motion to approve the conditional use permit. Mr. Lieberman seconded the motion. All voted aye, except for Mr. Wagner and Mr. Munkel who voted Nay. The motion carried four to two. AGENDA ITEM//4 - REZONING PUBLIC HEARING DATE FOR 501-515 NORTH & SOUTH: Mr. Ollendorff reported that Council was asked to set a public hearing date to rezone three lots on the west side of North & South Road, north of the City limits with Clayton. The proposal is to rezone from single family to planned development. The Plan Commission recommends approving this rezoning. The Council's past policy, in this zoning category, is not to approve rezoning until an acceptable site plan has been reviewed. In this case, the site plan is not recommended for approval and the developer is interested in revising it. Never the less, there is no harm in setting a public hearing date, which can be set for July 28, 1997 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers. Mr. Ueberman moved approval of setting the Public Hearing date. Mr. Munkel seconded the motion, which carried unanimously. Mayor Adams directed the City Manager to make sure that the appropriate people are notified of this public hearing and that the same people that were at the last public hearing, dealing with the property across the street, were also sent the information. Mr. Schoomer also requested the City Manager to have his staff check for clear indication of ownership of this property before Council considers any change in zoning. PERSONNEL REPORT The Personnel report for the period ending July 7, 1997, was received and ordered filed. CITI7EN COMMENTS: The Mayor called forward citizens who wished to speak on non-agenda issues. Mr. Alex Feldman, 1233 Backer St., wished to make a comment about the proposed nursing home to be built at the Delta Dental site. He said that presently state law has provided a moratorium on nursing homes in Missouri, because there are too many. One can be built under certain conditions, however. One of these conditions is to serve an ethnic group. At the nursing home at # I McKnight Place, the developers used that option as a reason for overcoming the moratorium on nursing homes. They have to come before Council and apply for a permit to build. Everything is line and legal, however; there reasoning for having a nursing home here is that it will serve the Jewish people. They also use that same reasoning for opening up the nursing home at # I McKnight Place. Mr. Feldman said that he has nothing against that, however; they are forgetting that the Jewish population in University City is seventeen percent in poverty. He had said to Mr. Deutsch that they should make some room for some Medicaid beds. The developers told him that the clientele would not be that way. He told Mr. Deutsch, that legally, he did not have to put in any Medicaid beds, but morally he should. Now, the developers