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• Apollo Landing, page 3 Building Materials/ Elevations The elevation that was submitted with this application is strictly an artist's rendering of what a hotel built to the height standards of the zoning district, and to the commercial design standards of the city zoning code would look like. h is in no way an architectural elevation depicting exactly what will be built on site. The architectural elevations are intellectual property of the different hotel chains and since a specific user has not been tabbed to take the hotel location final architectural elevations are not available at this time. However, as a Part of the Planned Unit Development rezoning request, architectural design standards must be established to dictate the aesthetics of the buildings eventually built on this site. Staff has worked closely with the applicant to develop architectural design standards that are acceptable to the developer as well as enforceable by the City of Lino Lakes. Building Height Again, the final occupant of the hotel, and therefore the final design of that building can not be verified at this tune. The architectural design standards limit height to 45 feet, as is the limitation in all GB (General Business) Zoning district. Landscanlli In accordance with the Screening requirements of the zoning ordinance screening is required along the boundary of the residential property adjacent to this commercial use. Either a green belt with 80% opacity, six feet in height must be provided, or alternatively a solid screening fence six feet in height. The plans as submitted provide a six -foot fence augmented with some additional landscaping. The remainder of the landscaping on site looks rather minimal, but that is based on the lack of definitive users and building size/layout for the site. As each site is designed with the final user the landscaping would be designed to work with the layout. However, again the architectural design standards would be able to spell ou the types of allowable plant materials. This would create the cohesiveness desired. As requested by staff, additional landscape islands have been added to the parking area for lots 2, 3, and 4. Green Area 'The GB (General Business) zoning district requires that impervious surface coverage not exceed 75 %. Th submitted plans currently show the property at approximately 70.5% impervious surface coverage, well withi the limitations of the zoning district. Revisions to the plans depicting additional landscape islands in t1 Parking area shared by lots 2, 3, and 4 further reduces that percentage. Barking The Parking analysis is attached to the end of this report. It clearly shows that the site is providing parking at c above the requirements of the zoning ordinance. The lack of defined tenants for the retail /commercial /office _portiorls of the site makes the reduction of parking a difficult task to undertake. City staff certainly does not 'want to eliminate parking which then causes the tenant mix allowed on the site to be limited. With the parkin provided a variety of uses (as allowed within the zoning district) can be provided for with the parking depicter