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� . � FREDERICK BENTZ � MILO THOMPSON � F�pgERT RIETOV�/ INC Mr. 8 Mrs. Clyde McLean February 15, 1988 Page Two 2. Our design intentions for the landscape wail were several. Firstly, we attempted to address concerns you raised in the City Planning meeting held on October 2� 1985. At that time, the City instructed us to provide only one access point into the site, adjacent to y��r property and to also eventually abandon th� driveway and free- standing garages located at the southeast corner of the project. You, in turn, expressed concern over that decisinn and raised questions as to the impact of fihat traffic flow going past your house. We consequently added return segments of landscape wall flanking ��oth sides of the entry drive to better provided a buffer between your house and the drive. Secondly� 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 decision was reached to construct the wall to a he�ynt of 6 teet +o better screen the project from the neighborhood and, in effect, make the existing complex more presentable. You expressed your disagreement with our design and told us 1-hat. in your words, we must be "asinine" for thinking that the land- scape wall could hide the garages and that all we ended up build- ing was a"Berlin Wall". Your feelings are that the averall height of the return legs of the landscape wall should be reduced to such a height that you would be able to see over the wall from inside your home. 3. We went on to discuss th� facts that tr►e landscape wall is cur- rently in its rou�hest looking state since final steps such as "washing down" the wal) have not been done and that final grad- ing along the landscape wall needs to be done. Steps recently taken in hop� that we would be addressing some of your and the City's concerns h�ve been �to add additional land- scaping along the Namline Avenue side of the wall that will cr�ate 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 p�er elemen+s on either side ofi the main entry drive to give addii�ional landscape detail. We concluded the meeting by informin�� you that we would review the above with our Client andconvey as best we could your feelings on �the landscape wall and that we would contaci� you again if aur Client wishes to take some action on this matter.