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Show Council Denies Deck Appeal Although quoted in Sunday's Sun-day's Salt Lake Tribune as saying he plans to pursue legal action against the City for the Council's action of denying his petition to erect a d ok above a city sidewalk, Otto Mileti, the owner and proprietor of Mileti' s Restaurant Res-taurant says that this is not his intention. He told the Record he may seek legal counsel to determine how to deck, with changed plans and resubmit them to the Planning Commission. He feels he can rework the plans so as to work around the objections raised by both the Planning Commission and the City Council, and is in the process now of doing his redesigning. pursue his next step, but a suit is not in the offing. Mileti first took his proposal for a deck, much like the one the Club has to the Planning Commission, which turned down his request. The Commission turned his proposal pro-posal down chiefly on the recommendation of Chief of Police Frank Bell, who pointed out health and safety concerns, such as bottles, or even people falling from the deck and injuring pedestrians pedes-trians to outweigh the consideration for the deck, which Mileti says he needs to financially support his establishment. estab-lishment. After being turned down by the Planning Commission, Mileti appealed to the City Council, which also denied his request, but by a divided vote. Mileti .pointed out to the Council he had designed his deck so the railing would be high and no benches would be built against it. ; There would be no way to lean, put a drink, or sit on the railing. Contrary to the story in the Tribune, Mileti says he nou plans to rewrite his bid for i |