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Preliminary Plat and Site Plan Review: Ebony Woods August 31, 2006 Revised: September 22, 2006, December 20, 2006; April 5, 2007 Page 3 of7 d. Balconies, porches, or decks e. Window Treatments The submitted elevations meet City Code requirements, contingent upon verification of the color aild brick requirements at building permit review. TIle City, Council has reviewed your proposed plat and site plan several times, and directed you to prepare revised building elevations. Council direction specifically on the elevations is summarized below: October 10, 2006 work session: consider using different colors for each building, other materials to make them appear to be 3 distinct buildings rather than 6 separate units. Add stone to the elevations. Some concern about six units versus four units. November 14, 2006 Council meeting: looking for higher-end architecture, possibly staggering buildings to avoid long wall of units. Still some concern about six units versus four units. Staff recommended wrapping the brick and shakes around the sides of the building_ December 28, 2006 Council meeting: case tabled at your request. January 9, 2007 Council meeting: buildings should ,be staggered, investigate options for reducing the mass of the buildings, vary colors between the buildings, bring revised elevations to a work session for Council review. March 20, 2007 work session: provide an elevation that shows all three buildings, stagger the buildings as shovm in the 2nd submittal, staggering should include the roofline, add landscaping between and around the buildings, and eliminate outside storage. The most recent submittal (m."arked as 5th submittal in the Council case) includes some landscaping between the garages and the buildings themselVes.. The units are staggered a bit, as are the buildings themselves. though this is difficult to verify without a revised site plan and ,plat submittal. These plans would need to be updated as part of the final plat submittal. Staff Wlderstands that the use of two different color shingles for each unit is an effort to upgrade the elevations. however we feel the same color shingles should be used for the entire building. Staff also recommends that the front doors be brought forward and some decorative columns be used in place of the posts shovm on the elevations. 9. Streets: All six units will have direct access to Ebony Street, a dedicated and improved public street. Ebony Street is 110t a collector street for which driveway accesses are -124-