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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL NOVEMBER 10, 1999 with Mr. Rossow, he has agreed to keep the area in front of the landscape structures clear from snow. Scalze asked what the Zoning Code said about structures such as this in the right-of-way. Scalze felt that the City would be setting a precedent by allowing these landscape structures to remain. She was also concerned about the resulting agreements that would have to be entered into relative to snow removal issues. The Zoning Administrator reported that the Zoning Code says that the boulevard area of the public right-of-way should be green area. However. throughout the City there are residential property owners as well as business property owners who have placed improvements on the right-of- way. The City has taken the position that should these structures or improvements be destroyed as a result of work necessary in the right-of- way, the City will not restore the improvements. Scalze pointed out that there are four access drives for 3101 Spruce Street. She suggested that without the landscape structures, there would be fewer access points. The Zoning Administrator indicated that the property had been two separate lots at one time with two accesses per lot. The Zoning Administrator further reported that she had the City En~ineer look at the issue of the access points for this property, and he recommended that two oversized access driveways be allowed. However, he did not object to the four that exist and indicated that they do not cause a problem for traffic flow. Mr. Rossow reported that 3101 Spruce Street is the largest parcel in Ryan Industrial Park. He also pointed out that the Frattalone property has three access drives. Rossow indicated that the site cannot function without the four accesses given that all the traffic moves into and out of the site within a half-hour. The four accesses are needed to separate bus traffic from vehicular traffic. Mr. Rossow described each of the four access points and how they function. Morelan felt that the four access points made sense for this property given the nature of the business. Fahey a~reed, and also indicated that he was comfortable with the landscape structures as they exist with the modifications proposed for the structure around the fire hydrant that have been described this evenin~. Scalze did not support the landscape structures and felt that they presented a problem for snow removal.