Planning Commission Minutes 1995 02 28

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A. Are we talking about a two foot grass strip or are there other plantings as well? What we are talking about is there is a two foot grass strip along each side of the building. There clearly are other plantings within our site plan. Commissioner Lipton - If in fact we decide on the two foot strip I not sure we want it to be sod. We may want to look at designating other types of plantings that may be more meaningful. Mark Neuman - That is something that we have considered. Probably putting in something like some kind of flag stone paver at the points where there is likely to be traffic. Q. A. In the minutes from the last meeting for this when we looked at the preliminary there was a concern expressed that there was not enough brick in the design. It was even designated as substantial brick. I don't see where that has been mentioned or discussed? In the last meeting in was suggested that we have substantial amount of brick or stucco. I think the Commission was somewhat divided on that issue. The project that has been approved just to the west, across McCaslin, is going to be an all brick project. It was presented to us that it would be nice to see some contrasting building materials. I believe we have addressed that by going to 100% stucco. Commissioner Lipton - I don't recall that, does anyone else? Commissioner VanNostrand - I was one of the brick team and Barton felt that we already had plenty of brick and that he liked the stucco better. Q. On the two foot grass area, what is the functioning purpose of that? A. From an operating point of view we would prefer not to have it. I was a change we made in the plan to accommodate the desires of the City. Q. Would something other than grass, like shrub, hedge, bush or whatever handicap your operations in any way? Q. A shrub would end up getting beat up by car bumpers. A. On the snow removal plan do you pile all the snow up there on the grass? A. No. Q. Do you have a picture of one of your properties that would use a two foot strip? A. We have never done that before so I do not. Applicant's Summary - Mark Neuman - We appreciate the comments that have come both from Planning Staff and the Commission. We feel we have done the best we could within the limitations of the fixed boundary of the site. We feel that we have done a good job of meeting the stipulations that were presented at the prior meeting and would look forward to a vote of approval on the project with the conditions we have outlined tonight. 25