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21 DRAFT 767 768 Statler Gilfillen: I'm not sure at this point. That's the problem. I'm just sitting down and discussing. 769 770 Beth Bronson: I mean, there's an exception. 771 772 Statler Gilfillen: With perhaps a better use of the language. I can give you a specific example. At the location that 773 I'm at,the farmhouse, they planted Burford Hollies in the'40s, and they were planted very close to 774 the foundation of the porch and along with other plants right there. The amount of pruning and the 775 root system that goes down to the foundations is a problem around the building. 776 777 Charity Kirk: Would you suggest a minimum distance away from the foundation? 778 779 Adam Beeman The roots are going to chase to the building. That's the problem. 780 781 Charity Kirk: I'm just trying to narrow down what the suggestion is. 782 783 Statler Gilfillen: The issue I am raising is that the way the language is written, it's ambiguous. I'm not sure that 1 784 have an exact solution to tell you tonight what that language should be. 785 786 Beth Bronson: Are you specifically referring to a minimum of 5-foot landscape area? 787 788 Statler Gilfillen: No. It could be wider,from my experience. 789 790 Beth Bronson: I'm asking is that the verbiage. 791 792 Statler Gilfillen: It's because it's up against the foundation. 793 794 Adam Beeman: That's the whole problem. And I'm on the page of Statler. I completely don't like anything planted 795 up against the foundation because when you work on a house, and the place is buried in bushes, 796 and you're bringing insects and all those other things in,that's a whole different argument, like 797 completely get rid of it. But I'm not at that argument, but that's what I think Statler's trying to say is 798 that he's not for planting something up against the building. 799 800 Perdita Holtz: The 5-foot-wide landscape is 5 foot from the building to let's just say the sidewalk for lack of a 801 better term. Now, you're getting into where a shrub should be planted within that 5 foot space, 802 because if somebody were to plant it 1 foot from the sidewalk,then it would be 4 feet from the 803 foundation. 804 805 Statler Gilfillen: The 5 foot is fine, but it should start 2 feet out from the foundation. You should not be putting 806 plants immediately at the foundation, as this language seems to allow. That's the issue. 807 808 Cy Stober: I suppose it could be interpreted in that very kind of heavy-handed way, but my interpretation and 809 what the intention is—and if it's unclear,we can clarify that—is that it can be 5 feet away from that 810 foundation. The intent is to screen it from view from the right of way. So, it can be 50 feet away, 811 theoretically. That's not going to be very useful, but I think, to your point, if the root zone is going 812 into the foundation,then the plantings will die, and we will then be able to issue a notice of 813 violation and require compliance with this landscaping requirement for non-residential structures. 814 So,we do have recourse should someone inappropriately plant them too close to the building. 1 815 share your concern, but I believe that the intention of myself,at least—I can't speak for all the 816 staff—is that they would be placed at reasonable distance away from the foundation to survive. 817 Because survival and growth is the purpose. Screening is the purpose. 818 819 Lamar Proctor: It's a minimum of 5 feet from the foundation, right? 820 821 Cy Stober: Yes.