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0 0 CJ � FREDERICK BENTZ � MILO THOMPSON � ROBERT RIET�W INC Mr. 8 Mrs. Clyde McLean February 15, 1988 P�ge Two 2. Our design intentions for the landscape wall ne�hesCv�raPlanningtly, we attempted to address concerns you raised i Y meeting held on October 2, 1985. At that time, the City instructed us to provide only one access point into thed�ivewa�dandefree� Your property and to also eventually abandon the Y ro eci'. standing garages located at the southeast corner of the p J You� in turn, expressed concern over that decision and raised questions as to the impact of that traffic flow going past your house. We consequently added return segmentste� �an�dSc�eP�eaWbuffer flanking both sides of i�t�e entry drive to bet p between your house and the drive. Secondiy, after great concern was expressed by both the City and Pointe's marketing staff on the negative appearance of the Forum Apartment and its free-standing garages, a dec��betlerascreenhthe to construct the wall to a height of 6 feet t project from the neighborhood and, in effect� make the existing complex more presentable. You expressed your disagreement with our design and told us that, in your words, we must be asinine for thin{�ing that the (and- scape walf'Icould hic+e the 9oua9feeli�ngshareathatethedo�vera�build- ing was a Berlin Wall . height of the return legs of �debeaableaPo seelove�Uthebwa�educed to such a height that you wou from inside your home. 3, We w�n-t on to discuss the facts that the landscape wall is cur- rently in its roughest looking state since final steps such as "washing down" the wall have not been done and that final grad- ing along the landscape wall needs to be done. Steps recently taken in hope that we would be addressing some of your and the City's concerns have been to add additional land- scaping along the Hamline Avenue side of the wall that will crea�re a continuous green hedge along the base of the wall. Ivy has been added to the Forum side of the wall and dogwood hedges have been added behind the pier elements on either side of the main entry drive to give additional landscape detail. We concluded the meeting by informing you that we would review the above with our Client and convey as best we could your feelings on the landscape wall and that we would contact you again ifi our Client wishes to take some action on this matter. 0