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• Millers Crossroads Shopping Center page 3 on the front of the building. An additional sign will be allowed on the Hodgson Road side (west elevation). This sign on end of the building must be for a tenant of building. Lighting: The submittal includes several cut sheets for exterior fixtures. Exterior lighting fixtures must be 90 degree cutoff types. Recessed fixtures are shown in the soffits. The submitted wall fixtures for the back of the building do not meet the requirement and must be changed. The lights over the parking lot (Medallion CM flat lens) comply with the 90 degree cutoff requirement. However, the fixture submitted for the driveways (Towne Commons ALN 445) are a decorative design that echo the decorative street lighting within the residential part of Millers Crossroads. Though this fixture does not meet the 90 degree cutoff requirement, it is comparable to the existing decorative fixture in the larger residential planned unit development. The street lights on Birch St. and Hodgson Rd. are 25' high, but in Lakota Trail they are 18'. The commercial site is part of a larger development and the building was designed to complement the surrounding residential uses. The parking lot and driveway lights for this commercial site should be no taller than the street lights in Lakota Trail (18 feet). Parking: The following table lists the ordinance requirements by type of business. The ordinance states that 90% of the gross footprint should be used unless a specific use requirement differs. Lacking data on the interior dining area of the coffee shop, the calculation uses 90% of the gross shop area as listed in the floor plan (sheet A2.1). USE REQUIREMENT PROJECT coffee shop 10 /1000 sf of dining room plus one space for each employee outdoor seating area must be included in parking calculations per CUP requirement 90% of total 1648 = 1483 sf outdoors = 570 sf 25 2053 sf 21 spaces 4 employees 4 spaces total 25 spaces sandwich shop (fast food) 15 /1000 sf of gross floor area 2174 sf 33 spaces 33 medical clinic 1/200 sf+ 3 spaces 90% x 8658 = 7792 sf 39 spaces + 3 spaces 42 42 spaces total required 100 to be constructed 87 proof of parking 20 total potential 107 In the 2003 approval of the commercial building, 65 parking stalls were required (1 per 200 sf). The building was similar in size to the new proposal and the plan provided 65