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67 to show a concrete sidewalk fNOm the public walk at County Road B that runs 68 along the east edge of the parking lot and extends to the south side of the library. 69 70 b. [City] Another condition sought pedestrian connections from the parking lots. 71 While the DRC is not opposed to the elimination of the connection in the southern 72 parking lot, we are interested in having a permeable paver path incorporated back 73 into the western most island within the northern parking lot. [Mike Collins] I 74 reviewed this with our landscape architect, civil engineer, and Ramsey County. 75 The consensus was the path requested in the north parking lot is not desirable for 76 the following reasons: 78 1. We need the maximum amount of storm water capacity with the western 79 island where the three basins are located. Each storm water basin is 20 80 feet wide and 30 feet long. Due to the grades in the parking lot and basin $1 height restrictions, these basins cannot be any longer than 30 feet. If a 5- $2 foot walk is added with the median, the basins must be 1 S feet wide and 83 we end up losing 25% of the basin's storm water capacity. 84 2. Site work was one of the major areas targeted in schematic design and $5 design development to reduce the cost of the project. The earlier sidewalk $6 and larger parking lot were items that were value engineered out to meet 87 the budget. The option of widening the median and the entire parking lot 88 by S feet to accommodate the sidewalk defeats the cost reduction efforts. $s 3. The location of the sidewalk within the median in relation to the storm 90 water basins limits access to the walk from the west side the median only. 91 A small percentage of the users could access the sidewalk. 92 93 C. [City] The path stub from the transit stop at Hamline and County Road B to the 94 parking lot can be removed. [Mike Collins] This has been removed in the bid 95 documents. 96 97 d. [City] The DRC is also interested in whether there are future plans for the open ss space area on the north of the property created for parking lot redesign. [Mike 99 Collins] Ramsey County has stated they currently have no plans for the northern 100 most portion of the library site other than what is shown on the project 101 documents. 102 4.3 The DRC has accepted the responses from Michael Collins on behalf of Ramsey County 103 and support the project as submitted for the City Council's approval. The DRC noted it 104 was very supportive of the facility seeking LEED certification. 105 5.0 PROJECT SPECIFICS 106 5.1 The Ramsey County Library Board proposes to renovate and expand the existing 107 Roseville branch library. The expansion seeks to add approximately 30,300 sq. ft. to the 108 existing 43,400 sq. ft. facility, primarily via a second story. PF08 -030 RCA 051809.doc Page 3 of 5