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-3- Councilman Marks reported he perceives ..from the number of police calls to the Equinox Apartments , 2808 Silver Lane N.E. , that there is virtually no security provided for the row garages for the apartment complex -, since , if' one garage door is - left unlocked, . all parking spaces are accessible for vandalism and burglary. He suggested there should be at least a discussion by the Planning Commission of the feasibility of amending the City Zoning Ordinance to require a partition between each vehicle .in a .multiple family dwelling garage. Mr. Hamer agreed the lack of fire .walls in the Equinox garages poses a problem for both the City Fire and Police Departments , but said the Equinox garages would probably be grandfathered .in to any new ordinance as well as the new .Uniform Building Code which requires a partition between every. two stalls . He suggested, instead, that he see if he could negotiate a solution to the problem with Mr. Olson, the Equinox manager, which would be agreeable to both the apartment management and the City. When Councilman Marks persisted in his recommendation that the Planning Commission at least study the one-vehicle partition, Councilman Ranallo and the Mayor indicated they agreed with Mr. Childs that builders would probably resist- an .ordinance which is more restrictive than the State code because these restrictions would probably increase their construction costs in a period of a tight housing market. Mr. Zawislak was present to report the Commission' s June 15th meeting and they requested he advise the Commission- members that any recom- mendation from them to amend the ordinance in the manner suggested by Councilman Marks would face a negative vote from at least several • Councilmen.. Councilman Letourneau said he couldn' t see the wisdom of changing the- City Ordinance .to address an isolated problem. The Planning Commission representative- :stated he was of the same mind as the Mayor and the two Councilmen .but would relay Councilman Marks ' request to the Commission at their next meeting. The Equinox management should also be .contacted regarding their failure to maintain the .berm on Silver' Lane , . Councilman Marks sug- gested, adding that the apartment ownershad recently cited these same maintenance costs as justification for developing the Silver Lane strip for housing. Mr. Hamer -told the Councilman the berm has to be cut- by hand, since it is too steep for a machine , which, of course, is much more expensive. He reported he had, just the week before , notified Mr. Olson that Equinox was in violation of the City ' s vegetation ordinance .which requires grass .be no*more than eight inches tall , and promised to report back the results of his negotiations with Mr. Olson related to the -garage security and grass cutting. In reporting the actions taken by the Planning Commission, Mr. Zawislak said the Commission would no doubt have recommended Council approval of the seven- foot frontyard variance requested by Orville Thompson , 3202 Belden Drive, had they not noted a discrepancy between the survey and actual measurements of the distance between the existing garage and the curbline on Belden Drive and tabled the matter until the confusion cleared up. In his June 22nd overview of the Com- mission minutes , Mr. Berg had reported onsite measurements of the Thompson property had shown the survey to be incorrect but the re- quired variance to be seven feet as requested.