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A'ea Board of Zoning Appeals—December S, 2412 they were doing this. The reason we didn't have to ask for all those variances is they did not do any changes at the time we were doing the construction. There was house that sat on the property on Madison Street. When we had gone through this original petition with them those people had decided not to sell to the school at that point in time. Since that point when the construction started they changed their mind, they sold to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. The contractor went out there, because they were out there doing stripping and putting the top coat on the parking lot that was there he knocked the house down and he actually built parking lot where that house was. Unfortunately no one understood that we didn't receive Special Exception approval for that parcel of ground. So now I'm back before you to ask for a Special Exception for that parking area. What also happens because of that, we talked with Chuck at the Building Department, all the typical variances start kicking in for landscaping. So even though that parking lot exists for the St. Joe hospital, it was right out to the property lines. I know have to come back and request variances for setbacks for parking and for screening. There was one portion in the Area Plan Commission staff that they had asked us to do was try and put some perimeter trees around the site. And we will tell the Board we will work with that. Looking at the site plan for that Parcel B I could probably come up with about 7 or 8 trees, perimeter trees that we could put around that site. There is an existing overhead line, a utility line that runs along the south side of Madison Street and the west side of St. Louis but I can probably fit some trees on the parkway area. So I'll work with the Parks Department to put those trees in there. The other Special Exception is for the trailer. If you've been out to that particular site,they have a trailer put on the parking lot. At the old school they actually had two storage trailers so they thought they could just take one of those storage trailers and bring them to this particular site. What it is it's athletic equipment for the football field. They did not know that you had to have a variance or Special Exception in order to put that trailer on the site. So when I went out and looked at the site I saw that also and discussed it with the Building Department and Area Plan. So what we would ask to do is ask for a Special Exception for that trailer as well. They'd like to keep it there for a two year period of time, I believe that's what the ordinance would allow them to do. And at that point in time if the decide to do another accessory building to store the equipment then we'd be back before you or ask for another extension of time for the trailer. If you have any questions for me I'd be glad to answer them. MR. URBANSKI: Just to clarify something. We originally had approved on Notre Dame Ave. and LaSalIe, we had approved the sign to be moved from the old high school. Due to the fact that was a message board sign and that was at a traffic light where it could be read,they did not want to put that sign on the corner because people driving down LaSalle would be looking at what it says on the sign instead of looking ahead, being distracted. So that was, "a change" for a reason. MR. DANCH: That was I think doing the two monument signs, simple monument signs works out a lot better. MR. URBANSKI: And monument signs, and I'm looking at this, match the pillars for the fencing that's being put up around it. It's probably all going to be tied together. MR. DANCH: That's it. If you saw the architectural fencing that was going in with the brick columns, it does match everything. 30