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1 after making the initial outlay to convert the office to a • 2 dwelling, would be much cheaper in the long run than for i 3 his firm to spend $6 ,000 to partially fence the facility in 4 5 and provide an expensive automatic locking system for the 6 entire facility; 7 '*conceded it would be possible to fence in the accesses to the 8 units which face the back of the property, but it would not 9 be practical to fence in the two units which face 39th Avenue 10 N.E. because those are only garage units which exit onto the 11 street; j 12 *told the Chair there are 180 units in the facility, and alth- 13 ough he wasn' t really certain, believed the office was open 14 from 9 : 00 A.M. to 6 : 00 P.M. , seven days a week or perhaps 15 only from noon to 6 : 00 P.M. on Saturdays; 16 *told Commissioner Werenicz his firm had experienced no 17 security problems like break ins at all since they acquired 18 the property; 19 *conceded it was only for the convenience of the caretaker 20 couple that he was requesting a second caretaker unit; 21 *indicated to Commissioner 'Wingard that although parking 22 spaces- are not specifically designated as such, there is 23 ... space for 50 cars to be parked around the site somewhere 24 or another; 25 *also said the entrances to the inside units are kept locked; 26 *told Commissioner London he believed it would be impractical 27 to pay someone to sit in the office for three hours doing 28 nothing and they, to respond from another location for 15 min- 29 utes where his firm could offer free rent in an efficiency 30 apartment to have that person available when the caretaker 31 couple was gone; 32 *reiterated that his firm did not consider free rent in a 33 space they already had available, plus the initial outlay to 34 bring the unit up to code, could be considered to have .a 35 significant impact on the operation costs for the facility 36 when compared to the $6 , 000 it would cost to fence in only a 37 portion of the property and what it would cost to provide 38 security for the units which could not be' fenced in. 39 Mr. Childs said he understood there had been considerable discus- 40 sion of fencing in the property when Mr. Blanske had come in to 41 request the second story and the Commission and Council had not 42 been too excited about thatprospect because of the visual ap- 43 pearance. Commissioner Madden agreed with that statement, saying • 4