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Gerald H. Kaufhold, Case No. 1857 Page 2 indicates otherwise. They have the money and the desire to relocate in their own facilities and have, in fact, reduced the number of students currently at the Lexington Avenue site by one-half for enrollment this fall. 4. We suggest that developing a parcel of land in a first string suburb virtually surrounded by single-family development without a total long range plan is unfair to the surrounding land owners, not in the public interests, and not an intelligent approach on the part of the developer. No community in the Metropolitan Area that we know of would seriously pursue such a solution. This observation is based on 30 years of doing private and public sector work in this and other Metropolitan Areas. 5. Mr. Kaufhold has reiterated to us verbally with the advice of an appraiser,_that.the remainder of the land is a "commercial site". It is this kind of supposition (already turned down by the City) that leads to the concern relating to the platting of a portion of the site for single-family homes without regard to an intelligent solution for the remainder of the land. If additional areas of the site are to be developed for single-family purposes, for instance the platting of the land as proposed utilizing the street frontage to the west and south, may be a mistake. Mr. Kaufhold's position is that having tried two development programs involving substantial Business zoning and having failed in each, his only alternative is to plat the developable single-family lots and worry about the rest later. The question is whether this is a reasonable and intelligent way to go for both the developer and the City. In the process of approving a preliminary plat, the City is to determine that the division of the land and the uses in which it is to be puc are reasonable and appropriate and in the public interests. It would seem that determination is impossible to make without a reliable determination of all of the land uses involved within the relatively near future.