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DRAFT 5/2/05 • L BUILDING DESIGN STANDARDS The design features of the individual buildings will include a select variety of design materials which will feature a combination of natural earth tones with appropriate accent colors, together in a very distinct, handsome architectural style that is in scale with the site and the surrounding land uses. Equinox Development may, at its discretion, retain review authority through restrictive covenants on the individual properties to insure compliance with the proposed commercial neighborhood architectural design theme. This authority, however, is subordinate to the City of Lino Lakes review authority. All proposed buildings will be required to create a pedestrian friendly streetscape image. Limitations will be created for detached accessory structures. Building massing for all individual buildings and for the arrangement on the site will combine with landscape elements and lighting to highlight entry and sequence. Each building's exterior elevation will work within the time honored aesthetic vocabulary of three -part composition. A base, middle, and top will each be articulated to give clarity to the buildings as well as tie all elements of the site together in a simple cohesive composition. Color and texture will be used to denote these differences. Common materials will tie the complex together. Buildings shall generally relate in scale and design features to others on the site and to other developments in the area, showing respect for local context. Equinox' intent is to create a complex in tune with Lino Lakes Marketplace and Legacy at Woods Edge thereby creating triangular anchors supportive of a common architectural design and color theme. • • Buildings shall avoid long, monotonous, uninterrupted wall or roof planes. A wall surface shall be no longer than 30 feet without a break. Building wall offsets, including both projections and recesses, fenestration, and changes in floor elevations, where possible, shall be used in order to add architectural interest and variety, and relieve the visual effect of a single, long wall. Similarly, roofline offsets shall be provided, in order to provide architectural interest and variety to the massing of a building and relieve the effect of a Isingle, long roof. The maximum building. height shall be 45 feet. as defined in accordance with the City of Lino Lakes Zoning Ordinance. The front facade of a builciing shall be architecturally emphasized through fenestration, entrance treatments and details. The architectural treatment of the front facade shall be continued, in its major features, around all visibly exposed sides of a building. All sides of a building shall be architecturally designed to be consistent with regard to style, materials, colors, and details. All visibly exposed sides of a building shall have an articulated base course and cornice. The top of the base course shall align with at least the sill level of the first story. The cornice shall terminate or cap the top of a building wall, and must project out horizontally from the vertical building wall plane and may be ornamented with moldings, brackets and other details. The middle section of a building may be horizontally divided at floor, lintel or sill levels with belt or string courses. Gable roofs must be constructed with a minimum pitch of 9/12 to the greatest extent possible. Where hip roofs are used, the minimum pitch must be 6/12. Both gable and hip Apollo Landing Site Design Standards page 2 Deleted: Lino Lakes