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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes October 8, 2015 Page 15 of 23 5. Staff requests sidewalk improvements be made along Dogwood Street and to access the Brew Pub before this criterion can be met. Staff Recommendations: Staff recommends Planning Commission move to approve of Climbing Gym/Brew Pub - Resolution 32, Series 2015: A resolution recommending approval of a final planned unit development (PUD) plan and special review use (SRU) to allow for the construction of a 24,282 SF climbing gym and 4,071 SF brewpub in the Colorado Technology Center. 1. The applicant shall remove the proposed sign on the west elevation. 2. If parking shortages are demonstrated on the site, the applicant shall develop a shared parking agreement with a neighboring property. 3. The applicant shall construct a sidewalk along Dogwood Street, from Cherry Street to the mid -block access drive. Also, the sidewalk shall extend along the south side of the access drive to the entrance of the Brew Pub. Commission Questions of Staff: Brauneis says that the previous application addressed manicured lawns. The IDDSG does have guidelines or requirements for manicured lawns? Trice says it does. I believe the majority of lawns should be manicured. It is not saying all lawns should be manicured. Brauneis asks about shared parking. The language says if parking shortages are demonstrated, to whom and when? Trice says one of the concerns from Staff is because it is a competition climbing wall, more parking would need to be available for those types of competitions. The competitions would likely occur at a time, such as weekends, when the surrounding parking is not being used by the office and warehouses. Russ says we have had this exact condition on a number of projects throughout the City and also in the CTC where they have had landscaped areas that we said, if demonstrated parking shortage exists, then you are required to add. People look at the PUD as a final site plan approval. If we don't have that condition, then code enforcement is not empowered to resolve problems. There are potential unknowns associated with events and other things. If there are complaints and code enforcement is called, or Planning or Public Works are called, and overflow parking or predominant on -street parking is associated with the project, this would be the trigger to which we could come back and require shared parking. Applicant Presentation: Andy Johnson, DAJ Design, 922A Main Street, Louisville, CO This is a unique project to the Colorado Tech Center. It offers something that is missing to a growing community out in this area. There is no place to recreate and no place to eat. Most businesses would agree that it is something desired. Those seemed to be the comments I heard through the grapevine at the business association meeting when they reviewed this project. It adds an exercise facility and adds a food and drink facility. The architecture supporting these two types of businesses is dynamic in nature, representing the uniqueness of the businesses that will occupy them. The building architecture is relatively simple; the forms definitely take a different shape than what you typically find out at the CTC. The buildings are much smaller than what you see at CTC as well. The Brew Pub is around 4,000 SF and the climbing gym is around 24,000 SF, with only an 18,000 SF footprint from what you see at the CTC. The nature of the climbing gym itself does not lend itself to a lot of architectural articulation. The walls rely heavily on the structure itself. They are metal buildings and very simple in nature. The walls are extraordinarily expensive to build so the building, in order to be economically viable, needs to be simple and inexpensive. Steel building method was chosen as the type of construction which