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Show Jy ps898 offSioieG for bl se& oqBqs Nearly two months after the original request, Milford City Monday evening passed ordinance 44-79 allowing for Sunday sales of take -out beer. The ordinance amended amen-ded the previous beer ordinance, ordi-nance, to allow sales for off premls consumption. The move was anticllma-tic, anticllma-tic, since there had been little opposition, and Milford was about the only place In the county that did not allow 0 Sunday sales. The' change will allow merchants with a Class A beer license to sell take out beer between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and midnight on Sunday, the same as other week days. The request had been made by Trail-side Trail-side Store. The Council also agreed, to proceed with advertising a public hearing for the annexation an-nexation of property In the Northwest end of town, as soon as Neil Bradshaw presented pre-sented proof of ownership. owner-ship. Bradshaw had petitioned' peti-tioned' for annexation a month ago. Councilman Pettey moved to set a public hearing hear-ing on the annexation for 8:00 p.m. July 6th. They also discussed re-zoning re-zoning of 12 lots from R-l to CD in the Mountain View Estates subdivision, requested re-quested by Bradshaw at the" same time. They Informed him the Planning Com-4 Com-4 mission had recommended rezoning all the rest ofMain Street from Center Street north to the city limits, including in-cluding Bradshaw's lots. However, the recommendation recommen-dation had been referred back to the Planning Commission Com-mission to clarify the boundaries boun-daries of their recom- mendation before action is taken. The Planning Committee Com-mittee has not yet made that clarification. Norm and Thompson asked the status of his request Ofor rezoning of his property in the South East end of town from MD to RR-1. He cited a demand for an unimproved subdivision of one acre lots. , . Attorney Waddlngham was asked for his opinion, and stated that personally he felt the city would be making a mistake to approve an RR-1 zone. However, he said it was legally covered in the zoning manual, and was up to the Council. Herecam mended that Thompson pro-1" vide the city with a pro-., posal on just what obligations r would be expected of the city, and what would be provided pro-vided by the developer, and"" then let council make a decision. de-cision. Thompson has proposed a subdivision of unimproved one acre lots, with dirt streets, septic tanks and wells for every four to six lots. RR-1 would allow animals ani-mals to be kept within the city limits. He said, he -knew of several people who wanted to live in an area with less zoning restrictions than regular residential areas. The question arose as to whether the area was presently pres-ently zoned MD or not zoned at all. The city map used when drawing the zoning map does not extend that far west. However, Mayor Young argued ar-gued the MD zone would cover the area, since it was contiguous to the MD zone. Councilwoman Hanley argued ar-gued it was not even zoned, since the PlanningCommis-sion PlanningCommis-sion was not aware the land was within the city limits when the zoning map was"', made. ' i"1; Attorney Waddingham'said the unimproved residential, area would cause ' future problems for the city, -be--cause once developed, rest- dents of the area would hound the city for Improvements such as oiled streets, sewer and water. He said costs of maintaining streets, sewers and water would be more ex-" pensive, but if the Council wished, it could be passed" on to the property, owner. No action was taken on either rezoning request, awaiting further Imput from the petitioners and the Planning Plan-ning Commission. 0 Petitions to vacate alleys torn Sam Florence, Leon Gay and Rosemary Davie, were tabled until information informa-tion about easements granted grant-ed utilities could be clarified. clari-fied. A petition was also submitted from Herb Heer, , Harlan Thomas and Dorothy Bowman to vacate their al-lev. al-lev. The motion to table (Continued on Page 2) piinhasi-d for tin- i-xn-nsion of the runway was dis-.inlfl as not lxinc sifniifianl enough to warrant tying flu1 property up f' 20 years. Ttie offer was for $1.00 per aere per jvj r. Mayor Young said that the FmllA water application had len dropped, but that he would lie meeting soon with the 'Vater Resources Board to apply for an interest free loan to complete the project. The Council discarded the FraHA proposal last meeting meet-ing when it was reversed from a 75 percent grant and 25 percent loan to a 25 percent per-cent grant and 75 percent loan. Pettey proposed to limit hours for dancing at the bicentennial bi-centennial pavillion to 12:30 p.m., stating that he felt 2:00 p.m. was too late for nearby residents to be kept awake with the music. However, both Larsen and Hanley argued that 12:30 was too early to close a dance down, and since no com -plaints have been received no action was taken. Pettey also proposed that businesses on Main Street be asked to sweep their walks every day. Letters will be written, and Pettey will bring it up with the Milford Business Busi-ness Association. Assoc. to discuss closure of the contract on the extension exten-sion of the airport. The city agreed to a contract in 1975, to extend the runway, with Kaiserman Assoc. to obtain funding and do the engineering. engineer-ing. Kaiserman has been unable un-able to obtain the funding, but contests the city cannot get out of contract and pro -ceed with other funding, with out paying their fee. The contract has no date limitation. limi-tation. The Mayor and Recorder presented the proposed budget bud-get calling for a 20 mill -levy in the general fund. They proposed applying the surplus this year to redemption redemp-tion of the recreation bonds. The budget will approach a half million dollars with $160,000 earmarked for the general fund, and the rest in special funds. The budget allows an across the board wage increase of seven percent. per-cent. The Council approved the Planning Commission Recommendation Re-commendation for Kirk to enclose his carport to enlarge en-large his living room. But rejected and sent back to the Planning Commlssion a proposal from Donald Livingston Liv-ingston to permanently set a house trailer on the trailer park on 200 West. Council contended the trailer park was established, but that the lot size did not meet qualifications quali-fications for a permanent residence of the size contemplated con-templated without a variance. vari-ance. Hanley was instructed to review the proposal on site, and take the information back to the Planning Commission. Com-mission. It was noted that Livingston was already working on the foundation, and the trailer house was ordered. The trailer park was in existence before the zoning laws were passed, but a founkation and skirting would constitute a change of use and require a variance. An offer to renew the geo-thermal geo-thermal lease on property - HERE'S MORE ABOUT City Council was then withdrawn, and two more motions failed for lack of a second, and no action was taken. Hanley asked Attorney Waddingham if he had com -pleted the dog and fence ordinances. or-dinances. He had not. They discussed the fence ordinance ordi-nance and Swain moved for the Attorney to proceed with the ordinance for Council consideration. Attorney Waddingham went through his files, asking ask-ing questions about the status of several issues. Several files were closed. Mayor Young and Waddingham offered of-fered to bet new hats over who had certain papers that were not on file at city hall. Public hearings are scheduled for June 18, at 7:00 p.m. on the new budget, and to open the old budget to make transfers. Also June 26, for adoption of the budget bud-get for 1979-80. A special meeting is called for August 20 to meet with Kaiserman |