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4 Date of Job: September 1, 2016 5 IN RE: The Matter of 6 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT HEARING 7 CITY OF CLAYTON, MISSOURI 8

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2 1 IN THE CITY OF CLAYTON 2 STATE OF MISSOURI 3

4 IN RE: The Matter of 5 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT MEETING 6 September 1, 2016 7

8 BE IT REMEMBERED that the above-entitled 9 matter came on for a hearing at Clayton City Hall, 10 Second Floor Council Chambers, 10 North Bemiston 11 Avenue, in the City of Clayton, State of Missouri, on 12 the 1st day of September, A.D., 2016, commencing at the 13 hour of 5:00 in the evening of that day, said hearing 14 having been called by the City of Clayton Board of 15 Adjustment, pursuant to the issuance of due notice to 16 all parties in interest, and the following is a 17 transcript of the pre-recorded record made of all 18 proceedings held during the course of that hearing. 19

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15 For the Property at 9 East Brentmoor Park: 16 Alvah Levine - Architect 17

18 For the property at 8028 and 8034 Crescent Drive: 19 Scott Mehlman - Owner/Applicant 20 Blair Mehlman - Owner/Applicant 21 David Neiers - Attorney, 120 South Central Avenue, 22 Suite 1420 23

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4 1 THE CHAIRMAN: I would like to ask 2 everybody to take a seat, please and we're going to get 3 started. Again, welcome. It's 5:05 p.m. The normal 4 starting time is 5:00, so I acknowledge that we are 5 starting five minutes late this evening. 6 Just to make sure you are all in the right 7 place, this is a regular meeting of the City of Clayton 8 Board of Adjustment. My name is Gary Soule and I am 9 the chairperson. We will be presiding over this 10 meeting and I am going to ask the other board members 11 and staff to introduce themselves at this time. Anne, 12 would you please begin? 13 MS. BISHOP: Anne Bishop. 14 MR. TAIT: Ray Tait. 15 MR. DISNEY: Mel Disney. 16 MR. BLISS: Rick Bliss. 17 MR. CLAYTON: Louis Clayton. 18 MR. HEINZ: Ken Heinz. 19 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Board members 20 and alternates are appointed by the mayor and approved 21 by the Board of Aldermen. Members serve without 22 monetary compensation. This board consists of five 23 regular members and three alternate members. All 24 members must be residents of the City of Clayton and 25 hold no other office or position in city government. Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000

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5 1 Four votes in favor of granting a variance are required 2 to decide in favor of the applicant. This is a duly 3 advertised meeting and these proceedings are on the 4 record. At this time, Louis, would you please call the 5 roll? 6 MR. CLAYTON: Rick Bliss? 7 MR. BLISS: Here. 8 MR. CLAYTON: Mel Disney? 9 MR. DISNEY: Here. 10 MR. CLAYTON: Ray Tait? 11 MR. TAIT: Here. 12 MR. CLAYTON: Anne Bishop? 13 MS. BISHOP: Here. 14 MR. CLAYTON: Chairman Gary Soule? 15 THE CHAIRMAN: Here. Thank you, Louis. 16 Before we proceed, I want to take just a moment to 17 thank Anne Martin for her many years of dedicated 18 service as a member of the Board of Adjustment and 19 would like the record to reflect that. 20 Anne has been replaced on the board by 21 Nicki Herrington, who wasn't able to attend this 22 meeting. So we will save our welcome for Nicki to our 23 next meeting and I did want to acknowledge a thank you 24 from the board to Anne, for all of her years of 25 dedicated service. Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000