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• • Planning & Zoning Board June 13, 2001 Page 30 Mr. Corson made a MOTION to close the Public hearing closed at 11:00 p.m. and was supported by Mr. Rafferty. Motion carried 5 -0. K. North American Composites, Amend Condition of Approval for Site Plan Staff presented the application by explaining the City Council approved a minor subdivision and site and building plan for North American Composites on November 13, 2000. One of the conditions of approval was: 4. The precise concrete panels will be Fabcon Wide Rack 3/8" grooves at 3" O.C. with smooth concrete cattails design, or similar design. Decorative concrete block on the office portion of the building shall be either smooth burnished concrete block or rock -face block. Staff stated this originated in a request by the Planning & Zoning Board to revisit the building elevation along the freeway. Because this was a very visible location, the P & Z asked for some additional attention to aesthetics. In response, the applicant then submitted a revised south elevation that included a custom "cattail" pattern in the concrete panels. Though the P & Z did not see the new pattern, the revision was included in the project review by the City Council and was specified in the condition of approval listed above. Staff indicated North American Compsites had asked that this condition be deleted because of the cost of the custom design. Instead, they had submitted a design that included a four -foot blue stripe across the top of the precast concrete panels. The panels had a raked finish, just like the original submittal. In addition, the design of the building had been reviewed somewhat. The office portion exterior would still be decorative concrete block. However, the standing seam metal roof on both portions of the building had changed in the new design. Instead, the new proposed design had a flat roof for the warehouse portion. The office portion also had a flat roof, but the east elevation incorporated a peaked facade. Staff stated the footprint of the new design increased the footprint by about 500 sf, about a 2% change. Staff considered this a relatively minor change. Staff indicated because the cattail design was a condition of approval, it would require action by the City Council to change it Staff discussed the request with the City Council at the June 6 worksession. Council directed staff to bring the request to the P & Z for a recommendation. It would then to go the City Council at its June 25 meeting. Staff recommended approving the new building design and revising the condition of approval to delete the sentence regarding the cattail design. Condition number four would thus read: 4. The warehouse portion will be precast concrete panels and the office portion of the building shall be decorative concrete rock -face block as indicated on the exterior elevations by Stiglich Construction, Inc., dated 5/1/01. Chair Schaps invited applicant to make comment. Ivan Levy, presented a history of the project and thanked the Board and staff for all of their efforts.