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4 <br />feet more or less along the existing brick pavement of Webster Street as <br />shown. The Petitioners are asking to be allowed to continue to use the <br />existing paved street for access to their property without being <br />required to bring the existing street up to the latest City standards <br />and improve said street for a minimum 150 feet. The existing street <br />provides satisfactory access for the property and has since the <br />Petitioners purchased the property. The City has no plans to improve <br />Webster Street from what exists today. The site has access to Sample <br />Street, and Webster Street is used today by three other property owners. <br />The Petitioners do not believe approval of this Variance would be <br />detrimental to any adjacent property. <br />The third Variance request is from the requirement of providing a <br />paved outside storage area, paved parking spaces and paved driveways and <br />maneuvering areas to existing gravel outside storage area, parking <br />spaces and driveway and maneuvering areas as shown. The Petitioners <br />would state that their use of the property with trucks entering and <br />exiting to drop off containers and take materials for recycling or to <br />landfills along with picking up containers or dropping them off for <br />later use places a heavy use on any surface within the site. A paved <br />surface with the heavy use and the constant picking up and dropping off <br />of containers would be easily damaged. The Petitioners have found that <br />using gravel as the wearing surface is easier to maintain. It makes <br />replacing any heavily used area with additional gravel easy as compared <br />to ripping up a paved surface and constantly patching worn areas. They <br />would pave any parking area required to meet ADA standards for access to <br />the building. The remaining portion of parking would be left on a gravel <br />surface. The Petitioners do not believe the approval of this Variance <br />would have a negative impact on any adjacent property. <br />The fourth Variance request is from the required Fencing containing <br />30% open space or greater and supplemented with Screening of outdoor <br />storage areas consisting of Type "C ": Full Screening along the North, <br />East, South and West property lines to using existing and proposed <br />minimum 6 ft. high chain link fencing on said property lines as shown. <br />This request is similar to the first Variance, in that the proposed <br />outside storage areas abut existing outside storage, existing on the <br />adjacent properties. The Petitioners propose to place a minimum 6 ft. <br />high chain link fence along the south perimeter of the property to tie <br />to the existing fencing running along the west property line and tying <br />to the building on the east property line. This will help to secure the <br />site. Since outside storage is being done on adjacent properties, the <br />Petitioners would ask not to be required to have fencing with add Type <br />"C" Screening in conjunction with the fencing as stated in the <br />Ordinance. The Petitioners do not believe the intent of the Ordinance <br />was to require outside storage of materials to be screened from adjacent <br />outside storage on similarly zoned properties. The Petitioners would <br />state that the proposed outside storage areas would be difficult to be <br />seen directly from the northwest corner of the site from the fully <br />improved portion of Webster Street. Webster Street presently is unpaved <br />along a portion the west property line and the City has no plans to pave <br />Webster Street from where the pavement presently exists. The Petitioners <br />