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73 fj march 1 1972 ,a r;n 13) expanding s downtown the expansion itself of the area is neitheroffice uses beyond the central business warranted nor ::'.. He said the puroose and function of the aS Zone is to provide for 0 and protect areas adjacent to the central business He said the main differences in this e officio high . ment over and !above the current:code were as follows. He said h striction tan been eliminated. The density requirements have. 4,,been eliminated. Non-mercantile office tine uses will be d under certain conditions. Also under certain conditions,office buildings will be a/lcmed within residential areas. He said on r site parking requirements have been released..d P will more or less surround h b 1 t o provide people to shop in the hstance etc. He said as of now g set and prior to anything being b of course there would be apublic hearing by the Planning 5n d then rx d to the Council. gCJ.1 '. tile uses. I,.Shockev sass it had been the feeling Of private Councilmanbuoinesses,agencies and citizens that the present code was quite 4I ,restricting to certain type of office uses that would not be detri- toadjoining land uses. He said for instance if .built an office building under the present code,all offices would , intum'co he occepiedby certain professional people. If they were able officeCo rent only 503 of this area to this type of onal person, he remaining p people though under the present code it would be impossible to vtit would not be detrimental to t o the tenants nor t thesurrounding land.uses. Councilman Aldcroft asked Mr.Stookey just what areas were Mk.. zoned R5 and Mr.Shockev said he really could not say this at the present_time. He assured she,own though.1 o adjacent to the councilman Minch asked who would approve the zone and Mr. i d staff w ommiss ockev the essnRiss cssmississ would approve or reject s ortheir wouldrecommendation it e 1 for final approval. 1 foiden Serhes askeS if RR,s',I'M,of zone would not type zone and leave the downtown area dead. He zone could be kept the same so that some of these older buildings that the could be torn down and new construction the same loco Mr.ShOckey said that this Rs Zone hooefully ma to construction in h b se the dmajority of e the F 1 dwellings an people etc. an office building on Oakesmouth of Pacific. He d s c g yI• aid so far he had. been unable to rent all of ionalnervices htheoffice afeltsof profess- ! hese 1I`}yy that type of z . T.did ask when the zones would one .Pa been y zonas pony I .