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• Marketplace PDO Page 3 Pedestrian Circulation The plans have been revised to incorporate pedestrian linkages between the smaller shops and Target/Kohl's. Concrete pavement treatment, for crosswalks, will be incorporated into the plan. Sidewalk has been extended in the northwest corner of the Target site to link the site with the northern residential area. A bituminous trail will be provided adjacent to Lake Drive in conjunction with future improvements. The developer will be responsible for the cost of the segment adjacent to this property. Lighting Lighting details have been provided. The applicant is working with staff to use a decorative fixture, along main circulation routes, that will be used throughout the Town Center area. Spacing on the decorative lights has been modified to address staff and Planning & Zoning Board comments. All other exterior fixtures are shoebox style with downcast lighting, which is intended to control spillover lighting. Lighting levels meet the ordinance, except along the rear of Kohl's. The ordinance requires 0.4 foot candles at the property line where adjacent to residential uses. This lighting level will need to be reduced. 411 Signage Signage has been addressed in the project narrative and sign submittal for the monument signs. The Sign Ordinance requirements, within the SC, Shopping Center District do not specifically address a development such as this, which is designed as a multiple tenant site, but all of the buildings are detached. The Sign Ordinance speaks to single tenant buildings and multiple tenant buildings. Under the ordinance, each lot or building would be allowed one wall sign and one freestanding or pylon sign. Instead of having multiple freestanding or pylon signs, the applicant is proposing to limit freestanding signs to two adjacent to the freeway; one at Apollo Drive; and four smaller signs between Apollo and the secondary access. The two (2) freeway signs and the Apollo /Lake Drive signs are proposed to be forty (40) feet in height. This is inconsistent with the staff and P& Z Board recommendations to limit sign height along I -35W to thirty feet and the Apollo /Lake Drive sign to twenty (20) feet. Staff is extremely concerned with the aesthetic impact of a forty (40) foot high monument sign at the Apollo /Lake Drive location. Additionally, a fourth single user monument sign has been added along Lake Drive. Staff is recommending that the sign proposed on Outlot D be removed and the Apollo /Lake Drive monument sign be reduced to a maximum height of 20 feet. •