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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I November 3 Meeting With the Adjacent Roselawn Avenue Neighbors. RLC invited the seven southern homeowners on Roselawn directly across from the site to discuss landscaping and related matters. Five of the owners joined us. The strong concensus of those homeowners was that they wanted to be able to see the Worship Center and the parking area from their homes. They rejected a dense pattern of tree screening, either at the Roselawn boulevard or at the base of the Worship Center. They reported that they would not appreciate berms, fences, or a continuous line of dense shrub plantings along the boulevard. The veiled screening of deciduous trees along the Roselawn boulevard was preferrable year round to dense evergreens. These neighbors asked RLC to consider retaining the existing over-story trees as detailed in Exhibit B. They asked that the current variety of tree species along Roselawn be continued. They preferred intermixing lower height shrubs along the parking lot. They felt that smaller, less dense trees, such as ornamentals, were preferrable at the parking lot islands to taller, more dense trees. They asked that the church parking lot entrance sight lines be kept relatively clear for driving. They asked that parking lot lighting not be obscured by over~size trees. The only discernable disagreement among these neighbors was that some asked that RLC cut down the large cottonwood, and others were equally hopeful that RLC would save it. Saving the cottonwood won out. In response to this input, RLC prepared the following Exhibit C concept landscape plan. In this plan more of the berming has been removed and intermittent shrub plantings provide a headlight barrier. The eight parking lot island trees are slightly smaller and less opaque. Recommended colorful, hardy, native shrub types on this plan include: Dwarf Red Twig Dogwood Compact Viburnums Sea Green Evergreens Recommended tree types for the islands on this plan include: Crab Apple Japanese Tree Ulac Canada Red Cheny simUar varieties Recommended tree types for the Roselawn and Fernwood boulevards include: Maple Locust Ash Unden Boulevard trees will not be planted until Spring 1996. RLC hopes to defer final specification of boulevard trees until the City enacts boulevard tree regulations sometime in 1995, so that RLC can take advantage of the City's commissioned boulevard tree study. -)6-