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Some townhouse owners on vehicular pedestri-
in Maplewood claim they an traffic."
have been denied their "We're also experienc-
"rights," all because of a ing vandalism,"he stated.
ruckus over a fence re- "We'd like to do what we
quest. can to protect our proper-
JERRY MARKIE, who ty."
lives in the Maple Woods City Manager Michael
townhouse complex at Miller said it appears as
1764 N. McKnight Rd., though the townhouse
says owners of most sin- owners "wish to exempt
gle family homes are al- themselves from the total
lowed to erect fences environment of the Maple
around their properties. Woods complex and deny
But when the Maple access through their area
Woods townhouse owners to common facility and
asked for the same right, circulation systems."
he reported the city coun- Councilman Don Wie-
cil said no. gert warned that allowing
Markie and others are fences in a planned unit
appealing that decision. development may be bad
"We're talking about precedent.
rights,"Markie asserted. "A fence could lead to
"We have deeds," he another fence here and
added. "We are legal. We there and then we'd have
do exist. We do own prop- a mini-planned unit devel-
erty." opment within a main
HE SAID the townhouse planned unit develop-
owners want to erect a ment,"he said,
256-foot long, three and a The issue, which has
half foot high fence, most- been debated at two re-
ly to separate their homes cent council meetings, is
from nearby apartments. expected to be raised
City officials point out again at a session tonight,
that the townhouses and starting at 7:30 at City
the apartments are part Hall,1380 Frost Ave.
of the same planned unit
development.
IN THE original ap-
proval for the develop-
ment, they note, there
were provisions specifi-
cally prohibiting fences.
"It's not a Berlin wall
we're proposing," Markie 1
said.
"The fence," he added,
"will conform with the ar-
chitecture of the existing
facilities."
He said it was neces-
sary in order to "cut down