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Chairman Wilson and~~mbers of the Commission City of LaPorte Page 10 . procedure, and particularly would deal with residential PUD's, or manufactured housing parks within residential neighborhoods, or MH districts, respectively. Since the conditional use permit procedure specifically deals with a case by case approval of a project, within the guidelines as established in the Ordinance, it would seem that a subjective compatability standard is appro- priate, particularly since only uses that would have a major impact on the surrounding neighborhoods are subj ected to the Conditional Use Permit procedure. ANALYSIS: Leave this section as is. 16) Section 6-500: Citizen comment indicates that the a maximum height in Neighbor- hood Commercial districts should be increased to 45 feet from the presently proposed 35 feet. The proposed change of 35 feet to 45 feet would not adversely effect any use established in the Comprehensive plan, and it would not deter the ability of the City to provide fire protection to neighborhood commercial uses. Increasing the height from 35 feet to 45 feet would bring Neighborhood Commercial district height requirements into line with General Commercial district height requirements and multi-family Residential district height requirements. ANALYSIS: Change the height requirment in neighborhood commer- cial from 35 feet to 45 feet. 17) Section 6-600: Citizen comment indicates that glass covered lights should be allowed without being subject to having a sourcehooded or directed away from a right-of-way or residence. The intent of this section is to prevent lighting from causing a traffic hazard to right-of-ways and prevent excessive glare into a residence. This proposed change would allow the use of a typi- cal mercury vapor yard light. On the other hand, this type of un-hooded lighting can cause excessive glare to a residence. Vapor lighting is usually not directionally intense enough to cause traffic hazards except in the case of heights of less than 12 feet. ANALYSIS: Mercury vapor lights can be hooded or screened to prevent the light source from being visable from a right-of-way or residence. This requirement should remain as written as there is some liability involved to the City with the removal of this requirment. 18) Section 6/600 (B)5: Citizen comment indicates that the additional five foot set back required behind the screening fence for every foot of height of •