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Shonkwiler: I wouldn't anticipate that happening. Hedding wondered if Homart had guidelines or provisions to address the architecture regarding the roof lines. He hoped that air conditioning ducts, HBAC items, etc. on the roofs would be hidden as you come up Hwy. 36 and up the exit into Louisville. Shonkwiler: Whether it's on the ground or the roof, it will be screened. You must understand that given the difference in vertical elevation, between the top of the interchange and the shopping center, you couldn't build a parapet high enough. Our 50 ft. height limit may not be enough to hide a rooftop unit from the top of the interchange. From the travel and the perception of the center from the roadway abutting and surrounding the center, the parapets will be required, or landscaping, if they are ground mounted, to provide for the screening of those units, such as it's possible to do. Hedding wondered if the lighting is going to be sodium vapor or mercury vapor. Shonkwiler: Public Service puts in sodium vapor. We require, if not Halide, a light light. Mercury vapor is not permitted, because of the blue light. We haven't gotten to that point on the design standards. We need to consult with our users with regard to what is most beneficial to them for marketing. We're going to be providing adequate lighting for security. We haven't addressed a color yet. That's going to be in consultation with our retailers. Howard, in relation to the gas station site, was concerned with the open area bays, where you fill up with gas. He wanted the same kind of design guidelines and view on that site as on the other sites. Shonkwiler: One of the advantages to that is that a car being filled up with gas is really the same height as one that is parked. So, the landscaping