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CASE NUMBER: 1354 -81 APPLICANT: Fine Associates, Inc. Page 4. Attached are a series of drawings furnished by the applicant showing the site plan, elevations, a perspective of the front, a landscape plan, and a drainage plan. The City staff has thoroughly reviewed these drawings with the applicant, and the applicants have been very cooperative in making minor adjustments suggested by the staff. one such adjustment related to the required provision for a tern foot landscape strip between a commercial area and a contiguous residential area. The easterly half of the northern boundary of the shopping center site is contiguous to the garage and parking area that serves portions of the residential site. This garage area will be screened (as required) with a vertical extension of a poured concrete retaining wall required to adjust the grades along this property line. Instead of providing a ten foot landscaped strip, however, on the south side of this retaining wall (which would not be seem from the garage area) we suggested that a five foot strip be left and that an additional five feet of landscaping be provided along the east side of the shopping center building contiguous to the Comten site. We felt that the provision for additional landscaping at the base of the east side of the shopping center structure would be more helpful in creating a more aesthetically pleasing transition to the Comten Office Building to the east, You will notice them on the landscaping plan that there is a five f oo t landscaped strip along the property line on the east side, plus a five foot strip of landscaping at the base of the building itself on the east site. Thus, the applicant is applying for a five foot variance to the required ten foot landscaping strip contiguous to the residential area on the north side of the site You will notice from the drawings that the Center is to be of `masonry construction with the same Material on all sides. The front features a. herring bone pattern with landscaped bays contiguous to the walk in front of the building. There are two principal entrances to the center leading to the interior mall which is lighted by skylights visible from the exterior. In the overall, the building would appear to be well designed and should offer an attractive addition to this portion of the City. 5. Also attached is a copy of the drainage plan which provides for interior on, site drainage carried by underground storm sewers to the pond located northeast of the Comten building. Fortunately, the provisions for drainage of the site in question were included in the overall drainage solution evolved with the City and the Rice Creek Watershed District at the time of the approval for the Comten Development, In other words, the interim pending required for this site was designed into the pending solution approved with the Comten drainage plan. 6. At this time, the applicant is requesting approval of the rezoning of the northwesterly portion of the site from B -1 to B -lB in accordance with the City plan, and approval of the variance described. A subsequent application for a Special Use Permit for Site Plan Approval will follow if the ti rezoning and variance are approved.