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Davidson called for the applicant's presentation. Donald Slack, SEM Architects, Inc, 7935 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 102, Englewood, Colorado 80111, stated that they are presenting a site plan that has its open space through a combination of soft landscaping, ground covers, shrubs, trees, and hard-scape to create the kinds of open plazas and areas that the preliminary PUD spoke to and what they and staff had been discussing. He reviewed the site. Davidson called for Council questions and comments. Sisk did not want a drive-in included in the gateway to Louisville. He wanted the internal traffic flow of the project to be self-contained. He was concerned about the stark absence of landscaping on the northeast corner of the project. Levihn asked who the other tenants might be. Dennis Bass stated that the committed tenants are Peaberry's Coffee Shop, Fowler Real Estate (4,000 s.f), One Hour Martinizing, Fantastic Sam's, Pizza Hut, Mail Boxes, Etc., Laser Storm, and (inaudible). Levihn wanted to see the Burger King building drawings before committing to allowing the facility. Mayer was concerned about the landscaping along McCaslin and the possible Burger King. Lathrop was concerned about the signage. He liked the pedestrian orientation. He felt the big issue was not commercializing the exposure to McCaslin Boulevard. He wanted the businesses identified in a very subtle and decorative manner. Levihn wanted the 14 parking spaces up against the property line and facing McCaslin bermed. Slack anticipated a landscape hedge or a wall that would match the building construction. Keany pointed out that in the land elevations McCaslin was about 20' lower than building "A". Since people would be looking up into a large parking lot, he wanted shielding or blockage of the parking lot. He stated that he would look favorably on the applicants putting landscaping on the open space parcel. He did not like the large side of the building "C" facing out toward McCaslin or building "A" facing the hotel. He suggested they be architecturally enhanced. For the signage facing McCaslin, he wanted no open neon, nothing over -sized, subdued, and tasteful. Davidson was not sure the shared-parking would work to the applicant's benefit because other people would be using their parking lot. He had no problem with the 4.5 parking spaces. Concerning the use of City owned land as a detention pond, if the City could get some sort of benefit from that, as landscaping possibly. To do underground retention, the City was going to allow Home Depot to do that, so he did not see why it would not be allowed here. That would be a preference. He did not 9