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Merle Hay Mall will replace failing masonry panels with 6-foot wood fence for selected sections, council approves
Summary
After staff and mall representatives described failing masonry wall segments and homeowner impacts, Urbandale council approved substituting selected masonry panels with a 6-foot wood stockade fence for 15 sections, subject to permit and utility conditions; mall will reach out to homeowners where trees encroach on the wall.
Urbandale City Council approved a staff-recommended substitution allowing the Merle Hay Mall ownership to replace select failing masonry wall panels with a 6-foot wood stockade fence in the area south of Prairie Avenue to Madison Avenue.
Assistant Community Development Director Christy Bales presented an engineer's conditions report evaluating roughly 60 wall segments; staff recommended focusing first on 15 problematic panels and provided…
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