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00 so CASE NUMBER: 1572-85 APPLICANT: Fine Associates Page 3 Cleaver, Cisco's, Moxies, Chart House, and Luther's. The featured foot item is meat barbequed in wood fuel pits within the building. The wood storage facilities (inside) and the barbequing operation has been reviewed by the Fire Marshall who finds it appropriate to the life safety code. 3.2 beer is served with the facilities oriented to family dining. Representatives of Luther's will be at the Planning Commission and Council hearings to answer questions regarding their operations. The exterior material of Luther's will be cedar wood, similar to that used on portions of the exterior of Stewart Anderson Cattle Company Restaurant. 7. The first of MGM's drawings illustrate the landscape plan for Lots 3 and 4. This plan is consistent with and we believe will be complementary to the landscaping proposed and approved on Lots 1 and 2. All setbacks, curbing, and delineation of parking and access conforms to ordinance requirements. The remaining two sheets (the last drawings in the packet) illustrate the finor plan and exterior elevations of the MGM Liquor Store building. These reduced drawings are difficult to read. The structure, however, is proposed to be the same as their building south of Larpenteur at Lexington Avenue in Saint Paul. Thus, members of the Planning Commission and Council may wish to familiarize themselves with that building. The exterior mkiterials include painted light -weight break -off concrete block (at the corners) and painted light -weight, double scored concrete block for the lower portion of the remaining walls. These blocks are scored so as to appear to be eight inch by eight inch blocks which are proposed to be laid in stack bond (not common bond as indicated on the drawings). The upper portions of the exterior elevation are proposed to be done in horizontal cedar wood which hopefully will complement the cedar exterior material used on two of the other structures in the development. 8. We are somewhat concerned about the use of painted concrete block. The Planning Commission and Council may wish to consider this question in discussions with the applicants at the hearing. 9. A part of the application is a special use permit for the off -sale liquor land use on Lot 3 on the part of Lexington Spirits, Inc., operatives of the MGM Liquor Store. The land is zoned B-IB within which a retail building of 10,000 square feet or more is a permitted use and restaurants of 5,000 square feet or more are also permitted. The liquor store operation itself, however, is a special use in a business district other than if the store is a part of an 80,000 square foot shopping center (in which case no special use is required). Approval of the special use permit for the off -sale liquor store operation is a matter of a value judgment on the part of the Planning Commission and Council members. There would appear to be no contiguous use in compatibility on the site inasmuch as it is located a substantial