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June 1, 1982 �a the sort of eonstnaction and buildiq,, materials and a greater need for exits anc'. that sort of thing. MRS. MILLER WEEDA, 220 S. Fourth Street, made reference to not being objectionable and MR. MAGNUSON stated that it does not have anything to do with the rom ber of people that object to it - the Suprone Court has said many times that the objections, of the neighbors standing alone is not sufficient reason to deny a permit like this - it is the quality of the protest rather than the quantity - th,2 objections of the neighbors have to be well founded and have to be specific objections rather than just a general dislike of the proposal. MR. ILHWR stated that they have 55 signatures of the neighbors and this is a good neigborhood - new people have moved in and they are fixing up their houses and they are all single fa•^ly homes and they all sell - they want to keep it as a residential area. MR. KASTELLE requested that this perne:t be denied based on the discussions that they as a neighborhood had wit}. the Vegsunds - the financial figures that were stated at that time which are their private domain :;o a degree he felt - seemed to indicate that this could not succeed - it would seem ttet th(' volume which is self-imposed 15 or 16 people would have to necessitate a rate th?t is . st not realistic in the City of Stillwater. KATHY OF.R U?.. 118 S. Fifth Street, was concerned about the type of people that they would have c.: ;g into this facility - people sign up for summer parties on the river - once they ar 1n full swing and there are parties there at two in the morning was concerned how they could control that type of thing. MAYOR R1Kl;'rt felt that the price that they would charge is something that is their business and not the City of Stillwater or anybody else - he felt that they were looking at the wrong type of people that would be coning there - there will be absolutely no drinking, �hcre and felt that should be set aside and not look at what_ type of people that will be craning thee. COLINCn..MAN PETS 0NI stated that he has never stayed at a tourist ham>e as they are so- called, but there are many areas in this country and particularly in Europe where the bed and breakfast facility is very common - it is the case of people wanting to be in a quiet place - they do not want to have the noises of he average motel or hotel with traffic in and out - the salesmen that have to get up at three o'clock in the morning to get on the road or write his reports. From his understanding of it the kinds of people that go to tourist hones or into these bed and breakfast establishments are people who are not of the party type situation and he was sure that the kind of people that would look for the Rivertown Inn in Stillwater are riot the same kind of people who would go to the Howard Johnson out on Highway 94 - as to whether or not there could be any alcohol cor..,-option he felt that you would have a difficult time imposing more of a condition that the operators would not serve or provide alcoholic beverages. What is to prevent the individual who is travelling having a bottle with then and having a little drink before he goes to bed - the type of individual that is going to do this is not the persons who Crouse or adno are looking for a high -time during Lumberjack Days and as to the cost of these rooms, but he would bet his bottom dollar they won't be twenty dollars per rite and if they are sixty dollars per nite or eighty dollars per nite that is what controls the people that will be there - the people who want this kind of facility are going to pay for it and they are going to get nice service he was quite sure - what the Council has to consider is that SLi'l.ater is full of older homes and that he was one of tree parties involved in an efff-)rt to sell a home here not too long ago Stillwater is loaded with big homes and there will be the question of whether or not individuals can afford to live in these places as family people without some multiple housing going into condominiums or going into apartments - he felt that they have a probler here that if we don't provide same encouragtn nt for the proper utilization of sore of these bigger properties, the City may find sane of than falling into disrepair and beix,,g an eyesore and a detriment to the neighborhoods - goverrx-nt has a problem in this particular instance in that the government in the form of the State of Minrx.-sota authorized Mr. !. 'Is Anderson to run a Shelter hccv in this; facility ;and when they gave hi:n that licuxse to run a Shelter Home it was rift approved by the City of Stillwater hit did rant_ havA. to be) -