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March 16, 1978 .,: At. Review of Revised Site and Landscape Plans MacGillis and Gibbs 440-5th Ave. N.W. PURPOSE: Review of plans for revision of VN-167 as requested by MacGillis and Gibbs. BACKGROUND : In March of 1977 MacGillis and Gibbs was granted a variance to permit the use of a mobile home trailer as an office, with the condition that they would construct a 6-foot stockade fence around a portion of their property and that the remaining front- age along 5th Avenue and lst Street N.W. would be provided with screening in the form of spruce trees. The site and landscape plan was approved by the Council on March 22, 1977. In October of 1977, MacGillis and Gibbs requested a revision of the approved site plan by substituting the spruce trees with a continuation of the stockade fence. The Board of Review, at its November 15, 1977 meeting, carried a motion to recommend to the City Council that it approve a revision of the landscape and plot plan for MacGillis and Gibbs allowing them to construct the stockade fence around their property in substitution for the proposed line of evergreens. It was also recommended that the new landscape and plot plan would include jogs in the fence with evergreen trees planted in the jogs,and that the revised plan be reviewed at a later date by the Planning Commission. At the December 13, 1977 Council meeting a motion was carried to direct the administration to draft a resolution revising condi- tions of variance VN-167 as requested by the applicant with the stipulation as outlined by the Planning Commission, and to direct that this item not be placed on the Council agenda until after review of the plan by the Planning Commission. The revised site plan and details for the MacGillis and Gibbs stockade fence is consistant with the Planning Commission's design requests. The plan calls for five jogs in the fence along the 1,800 foot span along Fifth Avenue NW. Each jog is 28 feet wide at the front line of the fence and is 12 feet in