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April 3, 2004 Mayor and Member of the City Council City of Lino Lakes Lino Lakes, MN 55014 Dear Mayor Bergeson, Re: Final Plat for Century Farms North 2n Addition I am sending this letter and the attached materials to you and the members of the City Council on behalf of Gary M. Uhde and Avalon Homes so that you can have a chance to review them prior to the work session. The following two issues that came up during the review of the Century Farms North 2nd Addition by the Planning & Zoning Board. The two issues are 1) the exterior treatment of the attached town home buildings and 2) the need to include the existing Molitor homestead in the phasing plan, preferably the. Phase 2 plan. This would add 1 unit to the project for a total of 250 units. BUILDING EXTERIORS Attached are the colored elevation views of the proposed town home buildings that illustrate the proposed exterior treatments. s sample board will be brought to the Council work session and Council meeting for review and comment. Options A and B were presented to the Planning & Zoning Board. These two use a combination of brick, vinyl shakes, vinyl siding, aluminum soffit & facia on the exterior of the buildings to achieve the desired appearance and meet the requirements of the zoning code. The primary difference between options A & B are the reversal of the light and dark shades of gray on the shakes and vinyl siding. The Planning &Zoning Board requested evaluation of additional color treatments. Review by the building design experts and market studies by Avalon Homes indicates that the homebuyers prefer uniformity in color with some minor variation through out the project which is preferable to many colors on a building or each building being a different color. Avalon Homes is offering options C & D as a premium upgrade. The colors and stone materials add approximately $4,000 per unit or an increase of 3 — 5 % to the base price of $178,800 per unit. The new fire code that requires fire sprinklers added $4,000 per unit. These two costs are having an impact on the inclusionary component of the original plan. Options C & D would be available to the town homebuyer as an exterior premium upgrade and can only be done for an entire building not on unit -by -unit basis.