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3- Mr. Shelquist stated that birms are not allowed as part of the screening in the present ordinance. The new zoning ordinance allows up to 3 feet of the screening requirements to be taken up by a birm. Mr. Magnuson: We are not interested in a variance. If you want a fence you have got a fence. Mr. Shelquist: I think the residential area should be protected. Councilman Hodges: We would like to do what we have to out here. If you see something nice it doesn't matter what is behind it. Mr. Magnuson: Opaque screening when you plant is extremely difficult to do. Mr. Hardinger would like to delete the fence if possible, but doesn't want to go into a variance hassle. Mayor Johnson: If you could take and make the birm wider you could build it up higher. Councilman Baumgartner: They are complaining of debris blowing into their yards. A fence would stop this. Mr. Magnuson: A birm would stop some. Councilman Hodges: In the winter the fences are starting to collect debris. I think that looks worse. Mayor Johnson: We have residents here. Maybe we could open the meeting up to the floor. Tom Gustafson, 2295 Cnty Rd. H2 no matter what you put up it is still going to depend on who maintains all of it. There are broken bottles, etc. in the ditch at my house. What about parking on H2? The chain won't last. Who is going to maintain the birm? Mr. Burt Ramsted, 5295 Jackson Drive what alternative do we have if these terms are not met. Mayor Johnson: In the future the city is going to control development and the developers will join in with the city in a development contract wherein they negotiate and agree to what they have to do. In order to make sure that the development is done the way it is agreed to be done, they have to enter into a bond to make sure that all of the stipulations of the contract are adherred to. If there is a problem the city could require that there be a bond posted and if maintenance is not in accordance with the agreement the bond could be used to clean up the property. Also if it is a public nuisance they can go in and clean up and assess the property owner. Mrs. Walter Johnson, Cnty Rd H2 We have to live with the noise all night. It is the customers driving straight out, not the owner's fault. Who will enforce this? What abut ull the debris that comes down? We call and we get no help. How do you solve that? Bruce McDonald 5287 Jackson Drive Got to be something done with that debris. Kids are throwing broken bottles, I have seen them throw boxes out of their back door, rather than walking to the garbage can. Someone ran through our back fence as we did not have a hill that would have prevented that in our backyard. Mrs. Walter Johnson: Is anyone that wakes you up 4 times a week a good neighbor? Mayor Johnson: No. Mr. Hardinger Launching Pad We haven't had a complaint from the police department in a year and a half about the door being opened. To my knowledge we haven't had complaints from the neighbors. Since we got a citation a year or so ago we haven't had any problems. We have had a problem with one or two truckers and have asked them to park over by the Launching Pad sign. Most of them do. The debris is impossible to handle in the winter time. For example, the cans with snow on them. We pick up the obvious debris. In the summer once a week a cleaning service comes in and cleans it up. We try to get as much as we can. Fence collects a lot.