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Final S itc Plan Review- Gateway Retail Building Town Center 3rd Addition October 7, 2004 Page 7 of 8 Development Permit: As part of the approval by city Council, the applicant will need to enter into a development permit with City. This permit, among'other things, will incorporate relevant items from the Master Development Agreement with Ramsey Town Center LLC that will be obligations ~br Ramdance, LLC. The Development Agreement will also enumerate the financial sureties needed by the City to allow construction of the project. Town Center Development Review Guidelines: The following comments are a review of the site plan in accordance with the Sub-District Guidelines for the TC-2 Commercial area, as found in the Final Draft Town Center Development Guidelines. ?,tblic Recdm/Streetscape: The Gateway Retail building is located immediately adjacent to Sunwood Drive, adjacent to si'dewalks and trees installed as part of the streetscape. No public parks are identified for this sub-district; small group sitting areas and a mix of pavement and plantings were encouraged. The Landscape Plan indicates that there are foundation planters and benches on the north, east and south sides of the building. This is acceptable. Site Development: The site plan includes a mix of large floor (grocery store, convenience (fuel amenity, pharmacy) and specialty, uses. The retail building is located at and parallel to the street right-of-way. Parking for this facility is behind the structure and located away from the street. ;4rchitect'ural Standard3': In accordance with stated goals of the Town Center design guidelines, detailed elevations regarding architecture for the building have been provided. The architectural t"eatures of the Gateway Retail Building are multi-sided and include diversity in texture, color, shapes, projections, recesses, height, and transparency at street level. The selected materials include EIFS integrally treated with color, split face CMU block, precast concrete, brick veneer, pre-finished metal accents and awnings. The TC-2 District requires buildings to be 1-3 stories in height. The retail building is one-story. The guidelines recommend 35% of the total ground level street front fac, aries be glass openings. At least 50% of the non-glazed wall areal should be brick or a comparable alternative. Current calculations of exterior material finishes must be provided in order to determine conformance with the design guidelines. At the time of Preliminary, Site Plan review, the building contained access doors on the south elevation only, ~'acing the parking lot. The guidelines recommend access doors hcing public streets, which in this case would be Sunwood Drive. While it-is understood that dual entrances to a retail t2cility become a security and staffing concern fbr the tenant, it was noted that perhaps there are some design options tl4/~t could be considered t3 meet this guideline. The re¥ised Building Elevations dated September 24, 2004 now include two-way corner entrances at the east and west ends of the building. This design feature provides access doors on Sunwood Drive and meets the intent o Jr'the guidelines.