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Meeting and could not see me that time. That sounded reasonable, but since I had a few hours before I had to be at a meeting, I stayed in the lobby and started to look at the two set of papers I had been given. At that point Mr. Norman did come out of the door in a hurry, but since he went to the Rest Room before going out the door, I asked if I could have a Minute. He said `yes, as soon as he was back out'. We meet, I conveyed my apology to him if any of me actions and /or words from last night's Council Meeting had offended or bothered him. He thanked me and accepted my apology, and we walked to his car so that he could get going. I showed him that I had just gotten the papers he had told me about and said that I would be getting back to Sylvia and /or Patrick with my responses. Over the next few hours I read and examined the papers. AND GUESS WHAT!! The "Mixed Use" zone, while it did contain descriptions of types of uses similar to what we had been zoned under before the Comprehensive Plan, clearly stated that this zone was to ONLY apply to two parcels of land and these were very carefully described in the document as "Mixed Use" District. On Friday, I called and got a copy of the Council Minutes where the "Mixed Use" Zone was discussed and adopted. The Council voted to Amend the Ramsey Comprehensive Plan at the two JULY Council Meetings which would make the "Mixed Use" District zone designation EFFECTIVE AUGUST 25, 2003m THIS MEANS THAT FOR 2 FULL DAYS STAFF, CITY ADMINISTRATOR, CITY ATTORNEY, AND COUNCILMEMBERS HAD KNOWN OF THIS ZONE DESIGNATION -- YET NO ONE HAD AT ANY TIME BY PHONE, LETTER, OR PERSONAL CONTACT (EVEN DURING THE NIGHT OF THE COUNCIL MEETING) MADE ANY CONTACT TO ADVISE US ABOUT THIS NOW BEING AVAILABLE AND TO CONSULT WITH ON THIS !!!!! Another upsetting surprise was in those same July minutes I received copies of. The motions to adopt and second the "Mixed Use" District Zone language and the motions to Amend the Comprehensive Plan were each made by none other than Councilmembers Kurak, Elvig,Cook, Peterson (in various combinations !! Now, why did they never bring this to my attention in our long discussion of mixed use that they had with me in the parking lot after the August 26th Council meeting ?? This raises the question in my mind, Could there be a hidden agenda that I and the rest of us property owners should not know about? Well, this on top of the evenings events and the discussions I had with people have clarified my own opinion and if asked I will only accept "RESIDENTIAL" as the zone my property should be designated as, as well as the entire North Side of Rivlyn Ave should be "RESIDENTIAL ". (See the included copy of my e-mail response to Councilman Cook - as he had asked me to send him when we parted Tuesday night.) Now, if you had gone through all the steps and all the meetings as we had - following the rule - and always been up front and open about where we were and what we were doing, and to be SURPRISED by the Council action, How do think you would have reacted W M AND FEEL ? ? ??