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reminiscent of the late 1800's Shingle Style, sometimes known as Seaside Style, which evokes a casual elegance with its gables, descending rooflines, and shingle siding. The warm earth tone palette is understated and allows the building to blend into its surroundings. The direction for this style was reinforced at each of the neighborhood meetings where we showed imagery of several styles and components and asked for input on elements that seemed to fit with the lake estate feeling without being too east coast or north woods. The same couple images were selected as directions to take and the same dislike was indicated for gambrel roof lines and dominant turrets. This direction allowed us to fully develop the architectural style most fitting for this site. The main building is three stories from the front/street side and four stories from the rear/lakeside as the grades drop away from the street to the lake. The fourth story - would be visible from the lake. Much consideration has been given to proper architecture for the site and to the roof design. The building does exceed the height requirement under the R2 zoning of 35 feet. We have been working on a design that incorporates some of the space in the top floor units into the roof line in order to minimize the height. In general,we are about 44 feet above average grade which is 9 feet above height limit. It is our desire to maintain as much green space as possible and keep resident neighborhoods as close as possible by designing the building vertically instead of spreading it out over the site. Underground parking will also be utilized by independent senior apartment residents. Sideyard setbacks in R2 and R4 are 5 feet. The building currently is about 50 feet from the east property line. The building proposed would be about 70 feet from the property line. This end of the building is angled so that the view from the neighbor's property will look more down the line of the building and into the rear yard area and not just directly at the end of the building. Brownstone Architecture These three senior apartment buildings are designed as two stories that blend elements from the main building with smaller residential elements. The Brownstones would have underground parking for residents and parking lot for visitors. Each unit would have a patio or balcony area. The warm earth tone material palette is understated and allows the buildings to look as they belong on the overall site. Monuments The site is proposed to have a main campus sign at the main entrance on Lake Johanna Boulevard. A secondary smaller sign at the Shorewood Road entrance and smaller signs at the entrances to the Brownstone on County Rd D and the Brownstone on the west side of Lake Johanna Boulevard. A directional sign would indicate the receiving entrance off Sandeen Road. Within the site several signs would provide direction to the Library, Care Center and other points. A general campus site would be desired at the