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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - JANUARY 29 2001 , 10 permitted on this site, this had major implications for the development of the remaining parcels . in the District, allowing for mainly warehouse development. 2. Business Standards: Building Height - Concept A was the most intense proposal of the two. It proposed two five- story office buildings, joined by a two-story entrance atrium in the center. The total office development was 450,000 square feet. The project creates an important presence at the freeway intersection. Concept B proposed one central five-story office building and a separate one-story office building on either side. The total office development was 315,000 square feet. This singular building would have less of an architectural presence than Concept A although still visible at the intersection. Building Setbacks - Concept A, it appeared this concept met the minimum building setback requirements. Concept B, it appeared this concept met the minimum building setback requirements. . Building Exterior and Views - Concept A, the building faced the intersection with a small row of parking separating the two. The north side of the building faced two parking decks across a landscaped area. The view from Gateway Boulevard included two single level parking decks, upper levels of both office wings and the atrium. Concept B, the five-story building faced the southwest with a small parking area between it and the Interstate. The smaller buildings were angled away from the Interstate to minimize intrusion to the existing wetlands and avoid the power transmission lines. The middle building faced to a level parking deck, connecting to the building from the upper level. The smaller building faced the parking deck across small parking areas. Traffic, Site Access and Parking - Concept A provided for two parking decks, or 716 spaces, surface parking provided 1330 spaces and 150 spaces were provided under the office building. This was a total of2196 spaces, 59 spaces more than the 2138 spaces that were required. The minimum setback requirements from surface parking were not met in this proposal. The parking setbacks varied between 10 and 40 feet in width along the freeway and between 20 and 75 feet from the paved portion of Gateway Boulevard. There were three accesses off of Gateway Boulevard onto this property. Concept B, the parking deck provided 414 spaces, 1,100 spaces in the surface parking and 60 spaces under the office building for a total of 1,574 spaces. One space was provided for every 200 square feet. Parking setbacks vary between 10 and 40 feet along the Interstates and 20 to 65 feet along Gateway Boulevard. There were four accesses shown from Gateway Boulevard to this property. . Drainage, Wetlands and Floodplain - Concept A, had some unavoidable wetland encroachment with this proposal, requiring mitigation, but the major portion ofthe existing wetland system remained intact. Wetland mitigation and storm water ponding requirements were provided adjacent to the western wetland system. A total of 46,305 square feet of wetlands located in the central part of the site needed to be filled to develop this concept. This required mitigation at a ratio of2:1 or 71,730 square feet of new wetland and 35,289 square feet of storm water treatment pond in the northwestern corner of the site. Concept B, the same conditions