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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. <br />4800 Olson Memorial Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 65422 <br />Telephone: 763.231 .2555 Facsim ile: 763.231 .2561 planners©nacplanning.com <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Little Canada Planning Commission <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman/Michelle Barness <br />DATE: August 7, 2014 <br />RE: Little Canada — Little Canada Medical Building — <br />Architectural Review <br />FILE NO: 758.09 —14.19 <br />BACKGROUND <br />Davis Real Estate Service Group, LLC has applied for an architectural review for the <br />Little Canada Medical Building to be located at 2250 Rice Street. The property is <br />located in the B-3 General Business District, and is subject to the City's Architectural <br />Guidelines. <br />ANALYSIS <br />Building Materials and Facade Design. <br />Building Finishes. The exterior finish of the proposed medical building will be composed <br />of face brick and accent face brick. According to the Architectural Guidelines, durable <br />finish materials such as brick, stone and terra cotta are encouraged. <br />Windows. In the Rice/Little Canada Road area, windows must comprise at least 50% of <br />the front building facade. Outside of that area, the standards are relaxed to require that <br />reasonable window coverage is included on all sides of any building facing a public <br />street. In this case, the building faces two local streets (Rice and Viking Drive). <br />Highway 36 is to the south, and the McDonalds restaurant property is to the north. <br />Nonetheless, the building includes window coverage on all four sides, and when <br />considering total window area, actually meets the 50% standard in aggregate below the <br />parapet level when compared to the building frontage areas. <br />1 <br />8 <br />