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• Planning & Zoning Board October 12, 2005 Page 7 Mr. Laden asked if the hotel had elevators. Ms. Kraemer responded it did. Mr. Laden stated it would not sit well with him to go through the pool to get to the main part of town. Mr. Tralle stated he did not like the shutters that had been previously proposed and he did not care what Country Inn and Suites had to have as a corporate image. He stated the citizens had to look at what was built and they knew what they wanted. He stated they wanted more brick on the building and while he did not like the way the building sits, he was not going to ask them to turn the building around as long as they were willing to put some changes in, specifically along the gabled in and the porches also. He stated the porches needed some "tweaking ". He stated just because corporate American wanted something, did not mean they had to have it. He stated they were not going to skimp at this point. He stated if they heard what the Board was saying and made the proposed changes, this would go a long way in getting this approved. Ms. Kraemer stated they did hear the recommendations and they would take this back and evaluate the suggestions. Chair Rafferty stated he did not like the shingled roof and he wanted a standing seam roof to match the rest of the buildings in the area. Mr. Laden agreed the standing seam roof would fit nicely on the building and while the rest of the building had come up on quality from last month, the roof had not. • Mr. Tralle stated the standing seam roof would fit better in the area. • Chair Rafferty noted they had looked hard at what was going on in the City and he also wanted the trash enclosure to be attached to the building. He stated he would not agree with a trash enclosure sitting in the middle of the parking lot. Mr. Tralle stated he agreed and noted the Betty's Pies had their trash enclosure inside. Frank Janes, General Counsel Hartford Group, stated a couple of the ideas could be put into the development, specifically adding more brick. However, with respect to the roof and trash enclosure, one of the issues was the design standard as to what was allowed and not allowed. Chair Rafferty noted they have design standards that were functioning and that he could not see that they would drop the idea of a standing seam roof. He stated a standing seam roof and the trash enclosure did fall within the design standards. Mr. Janes asked for guidance from the Board as to whether this would get approved with recommendations or give them criteria as to what they wanted as part of the project. Chair Rafferty asked if they were able to work with the fourteen recommendations by staff. Mr. Janes responded he believed they could and believed these were commonplace recommendations. He noted one of the concerns was the setback and in order to move the building closer, the porch would have to go away. He asked what other conditions might be added to move forward. Chair Rafferty inquired about landscaping and asked if this was part of the recommendations. Mr. Bengtson stated the landscaping would need to be sprinkled and they could add that as a condition of approval.