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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 />