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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes December 10, 2015 Page 4 of 29 ■ IDDSG allows one freestanding sign for each access. ■ Applicant has five accesses but is requesting 4 monument signs. o Wall Signs - waiver: ■ IDDSG allows 15 sf wall signs, not to total more than 80 sf. ■ Applicant is proposing 40 sf signs not to total more than 120 sf. Staff Recommendations: Staff recommends approval of 633 CTC Blvd Final PUD: Resolution 37, Series 2015. A resolution recommending approval of a final Planned Unit Development (PUD) to construct a 153,018 sf single story industrial/flex building with associated site improvements on Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, CTC Filing 2 subdivision, with the following condition: 1. The applicant must comply with the October 22, 2015 Public Works memo prior to recordation. Commission Questions of Staff.- Brauneis asks about the parking spaces. Are we over on one and under on another? McCartney says to get the overage, you look at the rear of the property. When you take out the loading area, the overage of the parking occurs. Rice says when he read the discussion about parking spaces, there is an indication for allowance for another 134 spots. Is that what you just described? If they do not use the loading area, does this take them over? McCartney says yes. It does not take them over it as it is still just under at 3.7. Four spaces would be needed for all office and they would be at 3.7 spaces/1000 sf. They have 558 spaces total without the loading area. Staff feels this is adequate. Brauneis says there have been a number of buildings coming before PC. Some signage proposals have been accepted and some were not. In your view, is this sign waiver request okay because it is not hugely different? McCartney says the 15 sf is a small sign in regard to a building measuring 153,000 sf in size. Almost every project in the CTC has requested a sign modification. They are not asking for a change of the type. They are allowed 2' signs which are standard. They want more sign area to cover more of the building. Applicant Presentation: Jim Vasbinder, Etkin Johnson Group, 1512 Larimer Street, Suite 325, Denver, CO 80202 Etkin Johnson Group now owns this property. We sold this property back in 2006 and just recently repurchased it last month. Regarding parking, we more than adequately satisfy the IDDSG which is 2 spaces/1000 sf. We always want to have the flexibility regarding parking since this is a spec building and we do not have a tenant presently. We want to provide some flexibility on additional parking if we do get office. We have slightly over 1,000,000 sf in the CTC and do not have any buildings that are 100% office. We have buildings with a substantial amount of R&D space or laboratory space, and very little warehouse. We do not use the doors and in most cases, we take the doors out and put windows in. We have not experienced any issues with the flexibility that the City has granted us to date. Commission Questions of Applicant: Tengler asks relative to the docks, my assumption is that if the space is that flexible so you can install windows or doors, I assume they are not loading bays with a ramp? Vasbinder says there is a combination. There are locations with ramps but the balance of the building between the ramps is traditional loading docks. We have installed glass, store front entrances, stairs, and mechanical equipment chases. We have a lot of flexibility. There is also a service area which will be walled enclosures. If a tenant had specialized equipment like cooling towers, this would provide a secure area as well as a visibility break for screening.