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Mr. Bulot replied,No,the minutes are not completed yet. However,the audio is available. Councilmember Scott continued, I'm not on the committee but I rather see this continued so we can get all the data. I would like to hear from Mr. Masters about the court injunction. I think in lieu of this and especially with Councilmember Jo M. Broden asking for the data that has lead up to this property,that information is not available. Committee Chair Davis asked, When will the audio be in written form? Mr. Bulot replied, I'm not sure. It could probably be available in say, a week. I can forward the audio still. Committee Chair Davis requested the audio and Mr. Bulot stated the audio will be given to Councilmembers by tomorrow, July 11. Councilmember Scott stated, I want to apologize for any confusion on the dates to this meeting. What we enacted about four(4) years ago was a fast-track approval process which took out about ten(10) days from the process. If there was an ABZA meeting, we would set at our previous meeting a timeframe where we could hear the legislation right after the ABZA meeting. There was a little confusion with this. We have gone through some transition in Council so we had some dates mixed up. We were trying to do the fast-track program. What it has done is it has allowed petitioners and businesses to move on with their projects ten(10) days sooner than possible. Mr. Masters and your client, if there was any confusion, we take responsibility for that. What we typically do, if everything is clear-cut and moving forward, we stick to that process. Whenever there has been something that needs detail or attention, we tend to ask for a continuance. James A. Masters,Nemeth, Feener, Masters & Campiti P.C. with offices at 350 Columbia St., stated, I am serving as attorney for Mr. Burg. Your Council,Mr. Palmer, was at the ABZA hearing on Wednesday afternoon. After the ABZA ruled, he said this would be coming before the Council in two (2)weeks on July4. So I told that to my client and he said he would be out of town at that time. I asked him if we want to move forward with this or not and he said yes, so he canceled his plans to be out of town that day. Thursday, I then find out that this was set for hearing for today. My client has arranged to have a number of people come tonight to speak on behalf of this petition. Are you going to tell those people that will show up tonight that you are going to continue this?Are you going to send me back to my office to call these people in the next hour? I don't think that is quite fair to my client. Mr. Masters continued, This is a petition for a special use exception to allow a tavern in an area zoned MU, Mixed Use. This is all necessitated because of a paper rezoning that was done by the City in May 2004. The zoning districts were changed. For decades,that has been a bar known most recently as the `Dunham Inn.' In 2004, they changed the zoning to MU, Mixed Use. This meant that any place that had been zoned that way is now a legal non-conforming use meaning, it can operate until there is a change. My client acquired the property in 2014 and wanted to put in an outside deck. He went to the City Building Department and asked for a permit and they told him he doesn't need a permit. My client builds the deck and the City then sues him for, among 2