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TO: City Council
FROM: Department of Planning and Housing
DATE: November 22, 1991
RE: Protest of Bandshell Neighborhood Rezoning
A written protest of a proposed rezoning of a portion of the Bandshell
Neighborhood from R-3 (Medium-Density Residential) to R-2 (Low-Density
Residential) has been filed with the City.
Section 27.73, VOTE REQUIRED WHEN AMENDMENT PROTESTED, of the
Municipal Code states the following:
If a written protest against any proposed amendment, supplement or
change has been filed with the City Clerk, signed by the owners of
twenty percent (20%) or more of the area of the lots included in the
proposed amendment, supplement or change or by the owners of 20%
or more of the property which is located within 200 feet of the
exterior boundaries of the property for which the amendment,
supplement or change is proposed, such amendment, supplement or
change shall not become effective except by favorable vote of at
least three-fourths (3/4) of all members of the City Council.
The amount of land represented in the protest filed by Alice Failor (20.9%
of the area included in the proposed amendment) requires that a minimum
of five (5) Council Members vote favorably for the proposed rezoning to
become effective.
Chapter 380.3 of the Code of Iowa states the following:
". . .If a proposed ordinance or amendment fails to receive sufficient
votes for passage at any consideration, the proposed ordinance or
amendment shall be considered defeated."
This means that a minimum of five (5) Council Members must be present at
each reading of the rezoning ordinance, or the zoning amendment will be
defeated, regardless of the votes for or against the ordinance.
Therefore, staff would recommend that the Council table action on the
second reading of the Bandshell Neighborhood rezoning proposal at the
November 26 meeting, since only four (4) Council Members will be present.
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Iowa's housing shortage
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hurts economic recover
By DAV D YEPSEN «We can build as
R.a~SUN wfmr �. any houses as ..'
anybody wants. But
we can't build them
so the working man
can afford them.»
Ken Selzer
Iowa Homebuilders Association
Ken Selzer of Fairfax , an official with the Iowa Hcmebuilders
Association, said the problem is cost .
"We can build as many houses an anybody wants, " he said .
"But we can' t build them so the working man can afford them.
Lumber is high . . .and we've got tremendously higher energy costs.
Nothing consumes energy like constructing a new home. "
With the Persian Gulf crisis .pushing energy prices higher ,
"the cost of a new house next year is just going to go out of
sight , " he said . "There' s just nothing to stop it . Every
one of the component parts of a house takes a tremendous amount
of energy . "
Des Moines Register
September 30, 1990
New Construction Existing Structure
1102 Wilson 607 Carroll (historically
significant architecture)
Building Permit : $42,310.00
Assessed Land : $10,000 .00
Total • $52.310.00 Assessed Value: $53,000
Lot Size: 4 , 122 square feet Lot Size: 10,800 square feet
Building : e64 square feet Building : 1472 square feet
(finished )
624 square feet
(unfinished )
The solution? The preservation, rehabilitation, and enhancement
of older , moderately priced neighborhoods. Low density zoning
makes that possible .
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as Rector,
o,itivcly no shaving after 12:00 Go:rlocSk on Sundays
a the longest remained
Coldleee Pastorate thus
heaEpiscopal Church
hcreaiter, at either of the barber sho,�.. _ forty-two years.
' Tucsdav afternoon Dell Maxwell, now City Clerk, son During 1919. property on the corner of Lincoln Way and
of D. H. Maxwell. sustained a Painful injury at the hands Stanton Avenue was purchased and an old house was used
of an cr.�in�er or fireman on the railroad. About. 5 o'clock, for six years :is a combined Rectory and Student Center.
young 1laxwell, in company with other t4sys. was fishing Ikie new Y.ectnry was built in 1925, and the old house was
Under the railroad bridge which spans the bayou east of continued for use as a Student Center until Septeniter 15,
j the city. At this hour the regular west::ard bound freight
Passed and one of the men on the engine took a chunk
of coal ;tnd threw down among them. It struck one of his
fingers holding the fishing rod and mashed it so badly
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that amputation was necessary. .,$
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.Meredith performed the operation the same evening. It
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is a charity to suppose that the ac^_ident was not intended,
but the result of a careless manner of scaring boys.
ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH BY THE C-IL31PUS
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ion- was established in the Grange
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Hall by a group of Episcopalians in 1877. In 1892. Arch-
deacon Hoyt presented the first class for confirmation to
nday School was held with Gen-
Bishop Perry; in 1883. Su a
eral Rugh Lincoln as superintendent, and the group also r
attained Parish status that year. In 1899 Professor Bissell --
drew plans for a small church which was built and located ?
on Fifth Street, the first service being hold on Christmas �` jei11„ LIiiscopal Church first stood on Clark in I&
Eve, 1899.
• w between fifth sand Sixth Strcetti. It was later moved
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Services, at first, were conducted by neighboring min-
isters until 1919 when Father Roy Burrot of first two naths was ional
al nett thearound
to make roomrner U for sthe Street
v hightschool Clark
:va later
}' first resident Rector. He was one of the :where it was used for music claws
�J research men to study college work in the Episcopal andbow
by the City :chile the addition was being ad-
was
.!.7' Church. His choice of Ames for a place for study and !aU r for a librarymade
due to Dr. Pammel's years of persistent promotion of the uh�chT�ri scntly acre locate later ds been
end of east Sixth Street.
idea. Father Burroughs continued this study for six years I
1964
1883 81 YEARS
Schoeneman Bros. Lumber Co. was founded in 1883 by
W. D. Schoeneman and his Five sons—Robert, A. C.,
David, Frank, and J. H. C. All of these original partners are now deceased. Herb and Cecil Schoeneman, sons of
management of the company. The firm operates
A. C., and Chet Schoeneman, son of Frank, are active in the
' 1 1 Lumber yards in Iowa and South Dakota with headquarters in Hawarden, Iowa.
27 and has been active in providing material to the
The yard in Ames was purchased by Schoeneman's in 19
The store has been remodeled twice in the past 15
home builders, carpenters, and home owners in Ames.
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years and now handles a complete line of building materials, Hardware, Paint and a newly installed re-
modeling department.
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Schoeneman's are very proud to have had a part in the exceptional growth of Ames and are looking forward
to spending the next 100 years helping Ames and its people prosper and grow.
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Schoene an Bros. Lumb
BILL ALLEN,Manager 232 2372
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