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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 15, 2022 Page 7 Council President Schutt asked, are there any other questions from Council to Ms. Calta? There were none. Olga Mechanis I am the daughter of Danuta and Stefan. One of the things that you mentioned is that it has to be a difficulty. I am not sure if anybody is aware of the property. It is not a flat property. It does have a little bit of differences in height. One of the neighbors are lower and the other is higher so the fence would be different on one side versus the other so having a 5' fence would actually get more even than having the same amount if an animal would decide to jump over if the property is higher on the neighbor's side then it would be easier to jump over versus lower. Dogs can jump over a 4' fence but a 5' fence is much harder for anybody to jump over. My parents did have an issue with a dog actually coming over into my parents' property when they were dog -sitting. Who is to say that another neighbor is going to get another dog that decides to jump over? That would be a difficulty for them since the property has one side higher than the other. Also, it is easier for any human to just jump over the fence versus a 5' fence and you are able to see for safety reasons everything that's going around you so that if there's anything going wrong with your neighbor or they get hurt, you can easily see that they need help and you can jump over and help versus not knowing what's going on. Thank you. Council President Schutt asked, are there any other public comments on this issue? Mrs. Jurcisek stated, I do have one follow up question. In the Board of Zoning Minutes and this evening, it was mentioned that there was potentially a pool? Was a permit pulled for a pool yet on that property? Mr. Russell replied, no there has not been. Mrs. Jurcisek replied, okay. Thank you. James Sofianos I may have misunderstood you so I apologize for coming up here for nothing, but you had mentioned that it was not appealing to the eye, a wood fence as opposed to a chain link fence. Is that part of the reasoning for the Code? Is that what you were pertaining to? Ms. Calta replied, within the context of the Code, typically chain link fences are not looked at as being aesthetically pleasing the same way that a wooden fence would. We were talking about discrepancies between allowing a board -on -board versus a chain link. They are looked at in the Code completely differently and that's pretty typical across all sorts of fence codes.