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4 25th meeting and provided a number of comments many of which related to the proposed species. The applicant must work with City staff to address these comments and finalize the landscape plan prior to the final plat/PUD final plan submittal. The plans show air conditioning units in the front yards. Staff has been working with the applicant to move the units to the rear yard, but they have indicated they cannot move it to the rear yard. In order to comply with the Zoning Ordinance standards in Section 1007.043, all mechanical equipment must be screened from view from adjacent streets, public rights of way and adjacent properties. The applicant must revise the plans and should provide revised renderings to show compliance with these screening requirements. The plans show a 6-foot wide landscape area between driveways in the rear yard. The plans show a tree and rock mulch. We recommend that the rock mulch be removed and replaced with turf or landscaping and wood mulch. Architecture The applicant is proposing a mix of 4-8 unit buildings. The buildings all provide access via new private streets and have front porches facing the existing public streets (Town Center Parkway, Village Drive and Woods Edge Boulevard). All of the townhomes will be part of a homeowners association (HOA) that will be responsible for maintenance of the common areas, including the private streets. The HOA will provide snow removal and landscape maintenance for the individual lots and the common areas. The Section 4.3 of the Guide provides minimum building frontage standards and the applicant has met these standards: 1. Where build-to lines govern, entries must face the street. Seventy (70) percent of the block length must have building fronts, parks or plaza within the required setback area. 2. Where build-to lines are shown on the Regulating Plan, buildings shall face the street and shall occupy a minimum percentage of each block’s linear street (at least 50 percent or 70 percent), as noted in the Regulating Plan, within the required setback area. 3. Buildings shall be sited a minimum of 5 feet and a maximum of 15 feet from the public right-of-way. The standards require building articulation on both the roof lines and front/rear elevations. The elevations show a 2 foot shift for every 2 units. The grading plan shows elevation changes of 1 foot in most of the buildings, which will result in a one foot roof line articulation within the buildings. Staff finds that this is generally consistent with the standards. Two-car garages in each unit provides the required parking for each townhome unit. This meets Code requirements. Additionally, the plans show 47 on street parking stalls on the public streets and 10 guest parking stalls internal to the project. The applicant has worked to comply with many of the PUD standards, but is requesting