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Molin Concrete page 4 the entire new storage area. Finished product will be stored more compactly using the cranes. The cranes will be able to load product directly onto trucks. Lighting: When an earlier building was constructed, the exterior lighting caused some concerns among nearby residents. That situation was corrected with additional hoods being added to the fixtures. The City allows a maximum of 0.4 foot candles at the residential property lines and 1.0 foot candles at the centerline of a street. Photometric plans were submitted for review as well as fixture cut sheets. The proposed fixtures for both building lighting and overhead crane lighting meet City policy requiring a fully shielded design such as a shoebox fixture. Landscaping Plan: No landscaping around the new building is planned. The section of this report on the conditional use permit discusses landscaping for the larger site. Green space: A maximum of 90% of the site can be impervious surface in the General Industrial and Light Industrial zones. The proposal will not exceed this. Traffic, Circulation: The proposed new building will not interfere with or impact traffic on surrounding roads. Internal circulation is governed by the manufacturing process and storage needs. A condition of the 1997 CUP approval is that the City is to prohibit on -street truck parking on Lilac Street. However, Lilac St. is a county road, and the City does not have legal authority to impose a parking ban on a county road. Therefore, compliance will be voluntary. Parking: There is no parking requirement listed in the ordinance for heavy manufacturing. An analysis in 1997 of previous action on the site included a parking needs calculation using as a basis the parking requirement for a light manufacturing facility. The standard for a light manufacturing facility is one parking space for each employee or one space for each 2000 square feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater. For the sake of consistency, it is useful to compare the new application with that 1997 analysis. The total square footage was 110,200 sf for existing and, at the time, future anticipated buildings. The analysis resulted in a requirement of 55 off-street parking spaces. A "future" manufacturing building of 35,000 sf on the old plan is the comparable to this new building, which is about 38,000 sf. The office building that was built is 6511 sf rather than the 4800 sf anticipated in 1997. There are 76 existing parking spaces now. If off-street parking causes a problem in the future, the City can re-examine the site to determine means of eliminating any safety concerns.