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computer City, Case No. 2505 paqe 2 1) The building materials are a textured concrete panel similar to the new facade of Dayton's. 2) The landscaping, both inside the parking lot and at the site edges, meets or exceeds the Code standards for amount of landscaped area and spacing of plants. 3) The loading area at the east end of the building is screened with a solid wall from County Road B-2, as required. No screening is required between commercial uses (toward the Crossroads Center), but a row of trees is provided anyway on the north side of the loading area. 4) Trash handling is within a completely enclosed structure attached at the east end of the building. 5) Parking spaces are provided at a ratio of 5/1000, 90 spaces for 18,000 square feet, exactly the City standard. 6) The building meets the 35' height limit. The only provisions that require variances are the setbacks. If the site were able to reasonably accommodate the required setbacks, the Computer City would not need any variances and could simply have been issued a building permit. The SC District requires 100' setbacks on all sides, except for 60' side and rear setbacks to B-2 and B-3 districts. It does not mention a setback to another SC District, but we could reasonably interpret the Code to mean that B-2 and B-3 are similar enough to SC to allow a 60' setback as well. In any case, these setbacks are clearly unreasonable for a site that is triangular in shape and only 225' deep at the most. In other instances in the City, small parcels in the se District have been granted setback variances, relying on the Business District standards of 30' front, 10' side, and 20' rear. Our interpretation is that the north edge of this site is a side, not a rear yard. The issue of traffic congestion was raised as a serious concern. The parking lot is front of Rainbow Foods and Best Buy is seriously congested at busy times. The main concern was the driveway at the west edge of the computer City site accessing directly into the parking lot near the main entry from County Road B-2. By private easement, the Computer City parcel is guaranteed access anywhere onto the Crossroads parking lot. Crossroads, of course, gains its major access for the eastern part of the center across the computer City parcel, also by private easement. We have met several times with the applicants to try and devise a plan that would reduce the traffic conflicts in the original plan.