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Special Use Permit – Applewood Pointe Planning Commission Report; 11-17-20 Page 4 Notable Code Definitions:  none Applicable Codes:  Chapter 4, Article 7, General Requirements. Allows fences for special purposes and fences varying in height from underlying standards by special use permit if certain criteria can be met.  Chapter 6, Article 4, MX District. Allows residential multifamily buildings as a permitted use  Chapter 8, Article 2, Special Use Permit and Variance. Identifies the process by which a special use request is to be reviewed and decided. Applicant’s Narrative: Applewood Pointe Residential Cooperative is requesting a Special Use Permit to allow the installation of an eight foot high fence along a portion of our north property line. Our neighbor to the north is the Johnson Screens Industrial Property and the purpose of the fence is to screen a view that now exists into the Johnson property. That area of their property is a delivery, loading, and storage area which accommodates steel products and other materials required for their manufacturing process. As such, the area also has a significant amount of truck traffic. The view from our north property line was formerly blocked by evergreen trees that were provided when the Cooperative was built about fourteen years ago. Those trees have lost a significant amount of their lower growth to a height of about eight feet and the proposed fence would provide the visual barrier formerly provided by the evergreens. We have been advised by a landscape architect that we will have a difficult time getting anything to grow beneath the existing trees so we have concluded that a fence would be the best permanent solution. The proposed fence does not affect anything along Old Highway 8 or any other nearby property. In making this request we are protecting the view from the building entrance and entrance drive at the ground level, as well as the lower and upper floor apartments on the north side of the building in that area. Thank you for your consideration.