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MEMORANDUM <br />To:Mayor Stille and St. Anthony Village City Council <br />From:Stephen Grittman, City Planner <br />Date:October 5, 2022 <br />Meeting Date:October 11, 2022 <br />NAC Project No.323.01 – 22.01 <br />Request:Request for an amendment to the City Code related to fence height <br />Property Address:NA <br />Property PID:NA <br />STAFF AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION <br />As the Council may recall, this item came before the City as an independent code amendment <br />request related to fence height. On a parallel track, the City’s Code Review Committee was <br />considering recommendations to a more comprehensive overhaul of the fence section in the <br />code. As time has passed, the two items have converged, with the larger Code amendment <br />incorporating the changes requested by the private property owner/applicant, along with the <br />other Committee-generated elements. Both the applicant’s request, and the City’s proposed <br />ordinance, have resulted in a proposed fence height of 6’-6”. <br />Since the Council has conducted two prior readings of Ordinance 2022-07 (the City Code <br />Committee version) as now written, staff believes that it would be appropriate to dismiss action <br />on Ordinance 2022-06 (the Tomas application version) with the height specification as moot. <br />Therefore, the requested Council Action below recommends dismissing Ordinance 2022-06, <br />pending adoption of 2022-07 in a prior action. <br />For additional background: <br />The applicant for this item proposed an increase in fence height from the current 6 foot <br />maximum to 6 feet, 6 inches to accommodate variations in the grade causing measurements of <br />a standard 6 foot fence panel to exceed the height standard. Staff had recommended shifting <br />the amendment to 7 feet, as this was consistent with building code thresholds, and the <br />Planning Commission passed that proposal. <br />Following the Commission’s action, the Council took up work session discussion of a broader <br />code amendment (separately brought forward in this agenda). When this applicant’s request <br />was brought forward to Council, there was concern noted over the full 7 feet height, and the