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Case #2: Request for Site Plan Approval; Case of Tradesmen Properties Community Development Director Sherman reported that the City had received a request for site plan approval from Tradesmen Properties. The plan proposes to construct an office/warehouse facility on Lot 2 of Block 1 in the Oakridge Industrial Park. The facility would be just over 10,000 square feet in size and will house the applicants, Kerns, Welle, and Wander, dba Tradesmen. The Planning Commission recommended approval with a couple of contingencies. The discussion was about the exterior elevation of the building. The east and north sides of the building would be constructed with a smooth face block with no banding and the front and west sides of the building would be front face blocks. The north elevation faces an l 1-foot retaining wall. The Planning Commission suggested allowing the north side as plain concrete but to continue the banding around, however the east side will have rock face and banding. Other than that, the two accesses shown are acceptable and no screening is required because the area is all industrial. They are proposing landscaping and it was suggested there be additional plantings added to provide some break-up. That was the recommendation of the Planning Commission. Staff is recommending approval subject to compliance with the City staff letter and the conditions discussed by the Planning Commission. Joe Wander questioned what the benefit is of them facing their building with rock face on the side where it faces a building with flat face. Ms. Sherman stated that the City is trying to get away from flat face buildings. She understood it to be rock face on all four sides to begin with and that what the Planning Commission recommended is a compromise. Mr. Wander thought that when they left the Planning Commission meeting, it was with the understanding that they just had to run color banding all the way around their building. Motion by Councilmember Haas Steffen and seconded by Councilmember Zimmerman to approve the proposed site plan for Tradesmen Properties contingent upon compliance with the City staff review letter dated February 25, 1999, and the conditions listed by the Planning Commission, and that if upon review of the Planning Commission minutes it is noted that the conditions are different than what was stated at this meeting, Council will approve it as the Planning Commission intended it to be. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Haas Steffen, Zimmerman, Anderson and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Case #3: T.H. #47 STP Project Land Acquisition Update City Engineer Jankowski reported that with the T.H. #47 STP project, the City is responsible for acquiring the right-of-way, which are 13 homestead properties. One has been acquired because it is vacant. The Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), which will allow the City to proceed was expected this afternoon. Evergreen Land City Council/March 9, 1999 Page 8 of 12