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'- geometry and massing of the buildings must be responsive to the entire District. Specific elements such as lighting and signage have not been identified for location or design at this stage. i) Concept A. The building faces the Interstates with a small row of parking separating the two. The north side of the building fuces two parking decks across a landscaped area. The view from Gateway Boulevard includes two single level parking decks, upper levels of both office wings and the atrium. ii) Concept B. The five-story building faces the southwest with a small parking area between it and the Interstate. The smaller buildings are angled away from the Interstates to minimize intrusion to the existing wetlands and avoid the power transmission lines. The middle building faces a to level parking deck, connected to the building from the upper level. The smaller buildings face the parking deck across small parking areas. d) Traffic, Site Access and Parking A traffic study for the District was completed by BR W in 1998, analyzing potential development and still keeping Highway 96 and Round Lake Road within design capacity. The conclusion was that the roadway could accommodate 1,100 additional trips in the afternoon peak hours. Concept A was evaluated by the applicant's engineers, SEH, and found that the maximum number of trips generated during this time, as a result of this development, would be 675 trips. The City Engineer has provided comments in a memorandum in Exhibit C. . In addition to the roadway design, the existing railway bridge will need to be discussed as to its use and maintenance responsibilities if the railway vacates its right-of-way. There has been past discussion of a trail connection, in cooperation with the City of New Brighton. The concepts should include a trail along the south side of Gateway Boulevard, leading up to the railway bridge. e By the Zoning Ordinance, the parking requirement for an office development is 1 parking space for every 250 square feet. There must be a 50-foot landscape setback from all public streets and 20 feet from other property lines to surface parking areas. i) Concept A Two parking decks provide 716 spaces, surfuce parking provides 1330 spaces and 150 spaces are provided under the office building. This is a total of2196 spaces, 58 spaces more than the 2138 spaces that are required. The minimum setback requirements from surfuce parking are not met in this proposal. The parking setbacks vary between 10 and 40 feet in width along the freeway and between 20 and 75 feet from the paved portion of Gateway Boulevard. There are three accesses off of Gateway Boulevard onto this property. ii) Concept B The parking deck provides 414 spaces, I, I 00 spaces in the surface parking and 60 spaces under the office building for a total of I ,574 spaces. One space is provided for every 200 square feet. Parking setbacks vary between 10 and e 4