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Regular City Council Meeting <br />June 5, 2003 <br />Page 15 <br />installed and probably would not be in her lifetime. She said that she went <br />through all the channels and asked for a waiver for the curb and gutter. She was <br />told by the Planning and Zoning Commission to take it up with the City <br />Council, who could help her. When she went back to the City Council, they <br />told her to go back to the Planning and Zoning Commission with a <br />recommendation of the City Engineer for a variance on curb and gutter and <br />it could be granted. She stated that Mr. Hayter took over the meeting, he did <br />not let anyone else have a chance to speak, and she believed that he had made <br />his mind up. Ms. Beezley said that the City Council voted and turned down her <br />variance on the curb and gutter and now she is being told that the City Council <br />can not vote on this because the Planning and Zoning turned it down. She said <br />there has been a lot of mistakes made on her request and she did not know why <br />she has to put up money for curb and gutter which will never be done in her <br />lifetime. <br />A. W. Clem came forward stating that he did not know Ms. Beezley, but she <br />had called him this morning and asked him if he had ever requested a variance <br />from the City Council or the Planning and Zoning and he told her that he had. <br />Ms. Beezley asked if he would look it up in his record and see and he agreed. <br />He also stated that he read about this in the newspaper and some of these <br />things do not make any sense. Mr. Clem said he knew where this property is <br />and the city is never going to, in his lifetime, develop that road with curb and <br />gutter on it; and yet, the city is asking this lady to do that. Mr. Clem said on <br />May 7, 1998, he came before the City Council on behalf of the Joplin Estate on <br />some property on 36th Street which runs all the way through where Rachel <br />Braswell lives and that whole area has never had curb and gutter. He stated <br />that he was asking for a variance for some lots that they were developing. He <br />wrote a letter to the City Council asking for this to be a variance because it <br />would be ridiculous to have a particular short area there with curb and gutter <br />and the expense that would be involved compared with the nature of the road, <br />which he said was not kept up very well out there. Mr. Clem said a variance <br />