have paid their taxes. She wondered if it were possible to cut the <br />zoning off from Washington to Chambers and keep the C-2 zoning. She <br />noted she wanted to sell the property and wanted to be protected. She <br />felt as close as the property was between Lincoln and Lawrence, it <br />would become commercial anyway, as it was so close to the downtown. <br />She felt she could sell her property for a higher value if it were <br />zoned C-2 rather than MU. <br />Margaret Ellis, 2486 Grovedale Drive, Springfield, owns property <br />at 276 West 12th. She wondered why, when people have to be housed, <br />it has to be at the expense of a few people who happen to own property <br />in the area in which it is wished to have them housed. She felt <br />low-income housing should be the responsibility of everyone in <br />the city and the city should not rely on zoning as means of housing <br />people who are unable to afford their own homes. She asked why she <br />should be more responsible for housing than people who live in other <br />areas of the city. <br />Public hearing was closed, there being no further testimony <br />presented. <br />Mr. Saul prefaced his response to testimony raised by telling Council <br />the comments made at the time of the public hearing had been made <br />at great length before the Planning Commission and were not new informa- <br />tion. In response to Mr. Stafford and Mr. Murray's request for R-4 <br />permits with conditional use procedures, he said the Planning Commis- <br />sion rejected this for several reasons. The specific development <br />standards were incorporated in the mixed-use zone to address the <br />problems faced in an R-4 District. He said the mixed-use zoning does <br />incorporate more severe and more restrictive developmental standards <br />than R-4. Another reason for rejecting this idea was that the mixed- <br />use zoning is to encourage high density and the Planning Commission <br />and staff felt it wrong to put impediments in the way of high-density <br />development. <br />In response to Mr. Hershner's remarks regarding Wyatt's, he said <br />the mixed use would affect only the north side parcel on West 11th. <br />Wyatt's existing tire service is on the south side and would not <br />be affected. He said the affected lot was primarily a vacant lot <br />used for parking with a warehouse at the rear of the property. He said <br />that operation is non-conforming in a C-2 District or an R-4 zone. <br />The tire recapping use is what makes it non-conforming. Also, that <br />particular lot is part of an entire block recommended for rezoning. <br />He reviewed for Council that the area was primarily now devoted to <br />housing, citing a 48-unit apartment complex to accommodate the elderly <br />being planned immediately east of the Wyatt property. <br />9/26/77--6 <br />i <br />-1 zq <br />