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� � 25 • . , Communication was received from �Ir.. and ??�.s. Clifton Riley expres�ina apnseci- ation for e�ression of sympathy from the Council at the loss of their son. Communication was ordered filed. , Communication received from the Redwood City Planning Commission recomm=ndin� favorable consideration by the Council of tvro apnlications for regoning, one by Vincent Guida, agent for John r.?cC and one by C. G, and L. Alsnaua,h. The first application c'tiacuseed:-was that oP C. G, and L. Alspaugh n�hich �rt=as ' for permission to re2one Lots 1, 2, 9, an d 10, Block 6, Hancock Addition to light industry, the location of said lots bein� �.t tne nortnea�t corner of Pine and Lathrop Streets. The Plannin� Commiesion a.pDroved the anplica.tion with the exception that the front��e on Lathrop Street with a depth of 20 feet be continued as business property. The follo��ing stipulations were provided: that the laundry be placed �. in the rear of the 20 foot depth on Lathrop Street and the service entrance to the laundry be on Pine 3treet; that a sketch of the f�.ce of the building be sumitted to the Pla.nning Commiseion if the Council anproves the rezoning. and; that the apnlicant furnish a bond in the amount of �5000 to assure com- pliance with the rezoning for laundry purposes, t1E bond to be in ef°ect until the building is coruplete and put to use as a laundry. Councilman Armstrong exprea�ed the opinion that if the.�.nplication were ' � gr'r�.nte� it �rould nmount to spot zoning to �vhich he H�as opposed. The question was asked as to what conatituted � li�?_ht industry and, after Citv Attorney McCa,rthy advieed that it v�as impossible to give a comprehensive definition of light induetrg and that the zoning ordinance provides that the owner muet en- �age in the light industry for erhich he has been �s,iven �. permit, Couneilman Armstrong stated that he had no c�uarrel with la.undries or �vith the annearance of those no�v loczted in the business district but he did believe a li�ht in- � dustry should be located. ir1 a distric t zoned for light industrial purposes �nd that he v��s opposed to rezoning businese property for the purpose o� li�ht in- dustry for the advanta�e of one pronerty o�vner. Councilman BritscYigi entered the meeting. City Rttorney PRcCartl�y upheld the Planning Commission�s action stating ' that the industrirzl area ae no�� zoned wa.s suit�ble for some industries while there vrere servlce industriea auch as shoe repairing and laundries �hich might be cl�.asifisd as li�ht industrial and appropriate to a.11o�r in the business dis- trict. He said that notices had been sent to adJoinin� property o��.mers withins� 275 feet of the nroperty involved and that only one protest had been received ' which h�d been �vithdravm after the protestant had vievred the nlans. Ee further stated that the Plannin� Commission was in the preliminary atages of working on pl�ns for rezoning pro�,erty elong the railroad tracks to allonr for li�ht indus- ties, atating that such industries �,re anxious to loeate near a, businees dis- � \