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1 ~ <br />• <br />Page 2 <br />Requiring future screening to meet the "block direct visual access" criterion <br />in the code may be important in defining what is appropriate screening and what <br />isn't. Encouraging businesses to spend money on fencing and/or landscaping to <br />meet the code, yet not provide anaesthetic visual screen, would be pointless. <br />An example of a well-done retroactive screening project appears in Figure 1 <br />below. This Roseville single family homeowner buffered the residence from a busy <br />street with burming and landscaping. (Front yard screening like this is not <br />allowed in the Falcon Heights zoning code.) <br />r: <br />FIGURE 1 <br />2. WEiEN SHOULD EXISTING BUSINESSES BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE SCREENING? <br />According to the zoning code, all existing businesses either "shall conform" <br />as of January 1, 1989 or "may be asked by the City Council" to screen after a <br />public hearing (see Attachment 1). This may be done in two ways. The first <br />is on a complaint basis only. The second is in an overall screening code <br />enforcement program. <br />