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4111 EDA Page 5 Meeting No. 9 November 14, 1994 telephone. There will be sound proofing between each dwelling unit and the floors. Fire-stopping material will be put in the gypsum floors between the garage level and the first and second floors. The windows will be vinyl with low E argon glass. Sorrensen said the exterior of the building will feature bay windows along the two wings of the building with accent brick. The main entrance canopy going into the building will connect from the lobby all the way out to the main turnaround. There will be power assisted entrance hardware on the main lobby doors. Rain gutters will be located near the entrances. There is a complete area drain that goes across the entrance of the garage. That water will be taken inside the building to a sump where it will be pumped up into the retention pond. There is also a complete drain tile system at the lower level tied into sumps to the retention pond. Sorrensen explained design elements of the building such as the solarium, management offices and mail room. The community room on the first floor will have seating capacity of nearly 100, with a residential-type kitchen rather than an 4111 institutional-type kitchen. There will be laundry rooms on each floor in the center of the building. An ornamental open staircase will go from the first floor up to the second floor. A health and beauty room will be located on the second floor for a barber shop or salon. There will be a television lounge directly across from that. The third floor will have a library room facing south with outside windows. It will have built-in book shelves. Charlie Melcher, engineer for the project, explained the wetland issues. He pointed out an area of . 05 acres that was a man-made wetland created less than ten years ago. Although the RCWD approved an exemption for this area, the developer was asked to mitigate 3 , 170 square feet of an area located north of the building. The RCWD also wanted the existing wetland enhanced either by excavation, removing the soil all together, or by pushing the soil out to the boundaries to form a berm. This project was accepted and approved along with the 3 , 170 square feet that was mitigated and a permit was received in August. Melcher said the high water table of the area was 906.2 and the garage slab was at 906. Their solution to the problem, which was agreeable to Steve Woods of RCWD and the Mounds View Consulting Engineer, was to fully waterproof the boundaries of 4111 the walls, to provide an exterior drainage system which connected it to the sumps. There will also be an undergrade system which would take under-slab water to the sumps to be