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Attachment to the Application of Holiday Stationstores to amend the building and canopy exterior elevations of the PUD to allow installation of 0.75 inch diameter LED illuminated architectural accents on the canopy and building at 1920 Hwy. 96. Holiday proposes to install 0.75 inch diameter blue LED illuminated architectural accents at the roofline of the canopy and building at this site. See Exhibit One. The architectural accents will be GE Tetra Contour LED lights within a guide/tube. See Exhibit Two “GE Tetra Contour LED Architectural Series”. Exhibit Three “Architectural Accents at Bloomington Stationstore” illustrate how they appear when installed. This is a different lighting product by a different manufacturer than the LED lighting that has been installed on the freestanding sign at this site. Shielding the LED light source by surrounding it with a translucent guide/tube both diffuses and dims the lighting greatly reducing the potential for glare. See the top of page two of Exhibit Two for detail on the installation. The reduction of luminous intensity at the source (candelas) achieved by shielding the light source is illustrated in the display “Light Output” on that same page. The guides/tubes that will be installed conceal and control the source of the light similar to the way the face of an illuminated sign conceals and controls the source of the light behind an illuminated sign’s face. The accents are part of the evolving and continuous application of new technologies to update and reinforce the Holiday brand and the image of its sites. For example at this site the accents would replace the painted stripes on the canopy. Visual and land use compatibility with uses and structures on surrounding land The sole impact of approval of the amendment will be visual. The architectural accents will add a marginal increment to the existing illumination on the site and not change its visual image in a significant way. No noise, odors, vibration, smoke, dust, air pollution, heat, liquid or solid waste, and other nuisance characteristics will be generated. Existing and anticipated traffic and parking conditions will not be affected. The Holiday site is completely surrounded and any visual impact buffered and mitigated by the roadways: I35W and the off ramp to Hwy. 96 to the west, Hwy. 96 to the north, and Round Lake Rd wrapping around the site on the east and south. The nearest residences are in the Arden Manor Park across Hwy. 96. Walls installed along Hwy. 96 visually shield all residences except those few directly at the entrance of the Park from any view of the Holiday site. The next nearest residences are east across Round Lake, facing Hwy. 10. Round Lake, across Round Lake Road from the Holiday site, is not presently available for public recreation and public use of its shoreline is discouraged. South along Round Lake Road are the office and warehouse industrial uses of the Gateway Industrial Park. 1