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east through the full length of the property. A secondary connection is provided that would access the parking area of the Tacheny Town Offices if that connection can be arranged with the neighboring project. The applicant has retained the single access point to Rice Street as well as the connection to the Tacheny Town Office project. The change in the alignment of the units now provides for a more indirect driveway through the site, breaking up the line of buildings. The shape of the property inhibits the ability to vary the project design significantly. However, the following comments are offered that should be considered for refinement of the project design: 1. The long, dead -end parking area offers no turn - around space. If visitors to the site find all the spaces taken at the end of the parking area, there will be no way to turn around a vehicle, particularly a larger delivery vehicle. The site plan should accommodate a loop or cul -de -sac to correct this deficiency. The revised plan includes a larger parking area that provides for vehicle turn- around on the east end of the project. 2. The parking area runs along the north side of the property, and units will face the back side of the "Midwest Spring" building. No connection is provided to future development to the south. It is likely that some type of redevelopment will occur toward the south over the next few years. A better design would incorporate the possibility that future redevelopment projects could be connected to this site for shared access and internal circulation, similar to the connection to the Tacheny project proposed in this design. As a part of this comment, the applicant may wish to consider varying the location of the buildings relative to the parking area, or wrap the parking around the last few buildings to provide the looped circulation. The revised plan accommodates connection to the Tacheny project, and would allow for connection to the south if two or three parking spaces were eliminated to provide a driveway. 3. The site plan provides for a total of 80 parking spaces. The City's basic parking requirement for office uses is one space per 200 square feet of usable floor area. This would result in a typical expectation for anywhere from 71 to 84 parking spaces. Parking supply will need to be verified as part of the building plan review at the Development Stage PUD application. The revised plan shows 121 spaces, based on 1 space per 200 square feet of usable area — the applicant calculates a demand of 118 spaces based on this formula. 2