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Mr. Leary indicated he has heard there was one from the owners. He stated if<his is a viable development, and they have been thinking about this and working on it for two years, he questioned why they have to go back and forth when they could just: leave the zoning commercial. Chairperson Johnson stated changing it back to commercial could be an Commissioner Brauer asked what Mr. Leary wants it to be zon Mr. Leary indicated they want it commercial, and unt few months ago they thought it w commercial. Commissioner Brauer asked if it were not commercial; to the river, would that cause him a big problem. Mr. Leary stated he did not know if it would be a big problem,, as they may come with a PUD situation. Assistant Community Development Director Trudgeon stated they could talk all night about what could be there, indicating there are major problems with what Mr. Leary is proposing, such as access issues and river regulations, but the fact is,^hhey have had two previous meetings on this with public hearings, and then the Planning Commission sent it to the City Council. The City Council gave their proposal for the lower two-thirds to be residential, and that is what they want it to be. Mr. Leary stated he does not disagree, but the reason he is here is to see what the land was going to be; how much residential and how much commercial. He noted they could have paperwork ready on this property inwo months time Hendicated if they are going to have residential by the river, he wants to know. What he fails to understand is in 1999 someone decided this should be residential. The own obviously did not think it ever would be or they would not have gone through the planning process. He indicated it is easy to change it to residential, but hard to change back. ;;Austin indicated -it apparently is not too difficult to change from residential to commercial since they just did it to is property. He asked why they did not leave the three parcels alone. Chairperson, Johnson asked how changing the top third of Mr. Austin's property to commercial affects him, Mr. Austin dated it probably does not. Mr. Nathe indicated access is going to kill the Colby's, and if the City does not look at this and makesome changes to access they will kill a ton of people. He stated at the rate of speed on that highway a lot of people will die. He indicated he had a policeman tell him he does not pull people over unless they are doing 80, and the City needs to do more and look at the property before they make these decisions. Planning Commission/August 7, 2003 Page 12 of 19