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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April ll, 2016 Page 18 Ms. Vogel noted that when the neighbors appeared before the City Council in Augiist of 2015 saying that all obstacles had been reinoved, they actually had not been. In March of 2015, Ms. Vogel reported that their business began renovation of the building, and moved into it in June of 2015, clarifying that they had not even been there for a year due to zoning and other issues as well, but not two years as sug- gested. Ms. Vogel asked what was so bad about looking at an einpty parlcing lot; and fur- ther asked what the screening was protecting residential properties from. Ms. Vogel noted that their business had also been affected during this process; and recognized the personal piece, with their business being responsible for twenty or more of their employees' families. Mr. Crain stated that he had issues with the Planning Commission's use of the word "cedar" since that was a technical issue. Mr. Crain stated his concurrence in designating a"wood" fence, but asked that it be cedar or like quality rather than causing the Vogels to return for approval if another material was found more ap- propriate and cost effective. Ms. Vogel noted that the original condition of approval only designated "opaque." Mr. Crain opined that, no matter the action tonight, it wouldn't resolve hurt feel- ings; and in his perception of the City Council and atteinpting to balance things, opined that it was important for them to be leaders and state what they cared about. Mr. Crain asked if tonight's decision would inhibit small business froin being successful in Roseville or not. Mr. Crain noted that even with installing the new fence 20' beyond where residential property owners wanted it located was in support of staff's reading of city code coinpliance. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte as to their intended location for the new fence installation once the old one had come down, Ms. Vogel responded that after the existing fence had come down, multiple readings were done by Cen- turyLink further confusion new fence installation based on the inconsistencies of those readings and potential location of underground cable. Ms. Vogel noted that one reading had the cable on the residential neighbors side, another further south on the Vogel property, and yet another directly under the previous fence location. Being told by CenturyLink cable locators that the fence and trees were affecting those readings, Ms. Vogel noted that they had attempted to resolve those discrep- ancies by removing the old fence and having trees trimmed as well as to facilitate installation of the new fence, even though then told later that wouldn't have been necessary. However, Ms. Vogel noted that this served to create a different situa- tion in placing footings for an 8' fence versus those needed for a shorter fence at 6.5' due to load bearing on those footings for the fence based on height.