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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION - MAY 17, 2021 4 Planning Consultant Kansier said they will have to provide screening, probably similar to what they see at Walgreen's. Mr. Fest mentioned there is another retention area in the southwest corner of the lot that the parking lot drainage will go to. Mayor Grant said he would go through the discussion items, starting with parking. Councilmember McClung said he'd like the drainage to not be impacted if they need to add the additional parking. Everyone was OK with 20 stalls. Mayor Grant moved on to the front setback line. Council did not object to the request. Mayor Grant continued with building elevations, to reduce the required window area from 50% to 37%, and to allow patterned cement and anchored stone masonry veneer. Planning Consultant Kansier explained it was 37% on the elevation facing the public right-of- way, or only the north elevation. Councilmember McClung commented that he was fine with the 37% but that he'd like to see the faux wood and know more about how it would stand up. Councilmember Holden agreed and she would want to see a materials board. Councilmember Scott said given the nature of the company he felt they wouldn't put up a building that would start looking shoddy. He was comfortable with the window transparency issue. Councilmember Holmes felt they needed to look at the materials carefully. Mayor Grant said he had concerns about the materials as well. Mr. Udris said they can provide better renderings. He noted they are vacating their office space in Minneapolis in order to build in Arden Hills. Mayor Grant said the pedestrian and bike circulation item was requesting to reduce the minimum trail size from six feet to five feet and allowing the existing bituminous versus concrete. Councilmember Holden didn't have an issue with that but wondered if they would put a bike rack on their property. Mr. Udris felt they would be happy to do that. Councilmember McClung had concerns with reducing the trail size and not using concrete. He felt this was an area they shouldn't allow flexibility. Councilmember Scott said he would like to see the concrete sidewalk for ease of use, maintenance and ADA issues.