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e e - " 3. Landscape Lot Area - Landscape area requirement met; Landscaping requirements not met. The landscape area requircment for the B-1 district states that a minimum of 25% of the propcrty should be kept as landscape area. Bcthcl College's current Landscape Lot Area has been calculated at approximately 123.94 acres or approximately 77% percent of the total campus as landscape area. In condition #7 of Special Use Permit 78-5, Bethel college was limited to a minimum amount of landscape lot area (by indicating a maximum of25% impervious area) for the campus as 75%. While the exact figures were not available at the time of this report, staff has estimated that the new dormitory would reprcsent a loss of 2.88 acres of landscape area or approximately 76%. If the new dormitory were not being relocated but were simply built in addition to all buildings shown on the plan the campus would still meet the 77% landscape lot area. (Acres) 123.94 (%) 77 (Acres) 121.06 (%) 76% Under the City's landscape plan design requirements 259 caliper inches of trees are required (the minimum total caliper inches required for trees can be arrived at by dividing the gross square footage of all floors of the building [83,000] by 320) for this case. The applicant has proposed approximately 96-115.5 caliper inches of deciduous and ornamental trces and 25- 33.3 caliper inches of coniferous trees in the provided area near Addition J. The result is 121-148.8 total caliper inches. The range is due to a listed range of caliper inches on the applicant's planting schedule. The City's Landscape Plan requirements (Ordinance 291: Zoning; Appendix A, Landscape Plan #4) state the minimum size for deciduous and overstory trees as 3 caliper inches; 2 caliper inches for ornamental trees; and a height of 8 feet for coniferous trees. In addition, there are 38 ornamental trees which could not be counted in the caliper inch figures because the planting schedule only lists the trees height. The caliper inches of trees also do not comply with the percentages outlined in the City of Arden Hills Landscaping Plan standards (as shown on table below). The conifcrous trees proposed by the applicant actually fall somewhere between the categories listed below (6-foot or 8-foot height divided by 2.4). Staff has included the coniferous trees in the 2 to 3 inch caliper category. \\Earth\Planning\Planning Cases\2004\04-02 Bethel SUP Amendment for donnitory (PENDING)\03-03"()4 PC Report Bethel.doc Page 4 of9