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Show Historic Zone Changes Slated For Thursday Public Hearing from on site parking and those new buildings that include only two stories above grade. However, new buildings that rise three and four stories above street level will, according to the proposal, be required to contain on site parking. Developers of larger buildings build-ings will either have to build the parking into their projects, pro-jects, or contribute to a special fund that could be established to build additional additio-nal parking structures in Swede Alley. According to City Manager Mana-ger Arlene Loble, the provision provi-sion will ease the impact larger new developments are having on limited Swede Alley parking and also encourage the construction of smaller, two story buildings. build-ings. Under the new proposal Main St. facing facades of new buildings could be no higher than 30 ft. However, the height of the building can raise at a 45 degree angle to a maximum of 45 ft. to the rear. The second in a series of public hearings on changes proposed for the city's historic zones is scheduled for this Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Bldg. Changes have been proposed pro-posed for the historic residential resi-dential (HR-1) zone that surrounds Main St. and for purpose of the ordinance is to maintain the residential integrity of residential Park . Ave. while still allowing expanded commercial development. deve-lopment. The new zone allows commercial development develop-ment to extend from commercially com-mercially zoned Main St. to, residentiallv zoned Park I literally an alley) into a public parking area. At the time property owners were told the expanded parking in Swede Alley would preclude the need for on site parking. The revised HCB zoning to be discussed Thursday exempts existing buildings the historic commercial (HCB) that covers the street itself. There is also a new zone proposed for the area that covers commercial developments de-velopments that extend into residentially zoned areas. Proposed changes for HR-1 HR-1 were discussed at an earlier hearing and Thursday alterations to the HCB zone will be presented as well as the new historic district transitional (HDT) zone. The new zone allows commercial development to extend through the block from Main St. to residentially residential-ly zoned Park Ave. The Ave. lots as long as the Park Ave. frontage is developed residentially and not commercially. com-mercially. The new zone is not expected to draw much concern but new parking requirements for HCB property pro-perty could bring considerable consider-able comment. Previously, Main St. developments de-velopments were exempted from providing on site parking because of earlier contributions to the Swede Alley improvement district. Main St. property owners were assessed in 1974 to develop Swede Alley (then |