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Louisville City Council Meeting January 2, 2001 Page 5. and CTC Boulevard. He reviewed that the subject property consists of four platted lots within The Business Center. All lots are zoned as part of the BC at CTC General Development Plan (GDP), which was approved in 1998 and subject to the Commercial Development Design Standards and Guidelines (CDDSG). He noted that the proposal is strictly for offices. Wood stated that the Planning Commission has reviewed the application as a preliminary and a final PUD. The preliminary was approved on July 20, 2000, and the final approved on December 12, 2000. With respect to the site plan, Wood stated that there are three individual buildings designed to function independently, though they share access drives and a storm water detention pond system. They are CDDSG compliant for parking and landscape coverage. Lots 15 and 16 are to be jointly developed, with Lot 16 having only parking. They will be held as a single parcel through a recorded covenant agreement. Wood reviewed the proposed phasing of the three buildings on Lots 15 through 18, which would be phased from west to east. Plans address the extent of site improvements and landscaping that will be completed with each building. Phase I includes all of the grading and seeding within the easement/outlot along Highway 42, as well as the planting of the tree portion of the plant materials. Wood reviewed the public use dedication requirement for The Business Center at CTC. He noted a 55-foot outlot and an additional 55-foot conservation easement were granted to the City adjacent to Highway 42. The terms of the dedication do not allow any grading activity within the easement. The subdivision agreement and deed of easement specifically grant Council the ability to amend those terms through a final PUD process. The applicant has proposed grading (primarily gently sloped berming) and landscaping within this area. The berming will screen the buildings from the highway. Wood reviewed the drainage of the proposal. He noted that the site generally falls from north/northwest to south/southeast, thus retaining walls are proposed in several locations. The walls have been further softened with landscaping. All walls have been limited to 30 inches in height, as recommended by the CDDSG. The walls are tiered and in some cases, double walls go up to the property line, but do not go into the conservation easement. He noted that retaining walls are also located around each of the shared storm drainage ponds. Wood reviewed the landscaping plan, which is compliant with the CDDSG plant material requirements and is consistent with the Landscape Beautification Master Plan. The architecture has been reviewed and found to comply with the CDDSG architecture standards.