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-14- • 1 of the City/School. Marketing Committee in response to the perceived need for 2 better identification and image enhancement of the City to prospective new 3 residents. He indicated the Committee had been formed to propose methods for 4 encouraging the settlement of employees. oflarge industries in the close proximity 5 of the City. in the 80 to 100 new homes coming up for sale in St, Anthony in the 6 near, futuee: . The Manager touched briefly on the progress of- the. project and showed 7 the logo graphics which reinstated the name of'St. Anthony Village as the standard 8 identification.of the community which the Committee hopes would eventual.ly appear .9 on the main access, street corner signs, the watery tower. .and the City's stationery 10 as funding permits. 11 12 Commission members .indicated they were impressed with, these preliminary proposals. 13 14 Commissioner Bjorklund indicated he liked the idea of the landscaping of meridians 15 in the access .street but said he hoped there would not be more plantings provided 16 than could be maintained by City crews. 17 18 The Commission then took up the agenda addendum which .called for a recommendation 19 regarding the amendment of. the Kenzington Planned Unit Development to the extent 20 that the number of units permitted for the condominium project would be increased 21 from 134 .to a maximum ..of, 150 and a fifth story to replace the loft units be added 22 which would -increase the height of the building from grade to the bottom of the 23 mansard roof from 49 feet to -50 feet, six inches and which would be two feet 24 shorter than the previously proposed height to the peak of the roof, as proposed 25 by Arkell Development, the redevelopers. The changes to the plan, which the 26 Manager indicated. had first surfaced just before Christmas, had been presented 27 to the Mayor and Council and all other members of the restructured Planning Com- 28 mission except Commissioners Hansen and _Bjorklund, at a work session called for 29 that purpose just prior to the Planning Commission that evening. There had been 30 general consensus .by those at the work session that the changes were acceptable. 31 32 Mr. Yurick explained that the increase had resulted from F & M's indicationithiey 33 wanted a better loan to value ratio for their commitment to finance the project. 34 The concept to convert the loft units into a 5th floor to meet this requirement 35 became possible. with the withdrawal of their options to purchase from 75% of the 36 loft purchasers during the period which followed the withdrawal of the original 37 financing for the project by the First. Bank of St. Paul in the summer of 1984. 38 The developer indicated that this gave Arkell an opportunity of redesigning the 39 building to provide more double sized units and, Mr. Yurick told the Commissioners, 40 if the marketing of the large "K" units..proceeds as successfully as it has up to 41 now, the numberof total units in the project could be cut down to as low as 138. 42 43 As reported by those attending the work session, the general consensus of those 44 present had been to .accept the proposed changes because, :as Commissioner Bowerman 45 put it, the perception was that the project might not be developed at all if F & M 46 withdrew from theircommitment, and the P. U..D.. amendments could be. seen as a good 47 tradeoff for the addition of fo'ur. more parking spaces for guests outside the 48 building; two additional underground.parking spaces; and the enclosure of both 49 levels of parking (which had been a concern of the Planning Commission in the past) ; 50 and a redesigning of the Kenzington building to complement the exterior design of 5 1 the 202 project across Kenzie Terrace. • `52 53 Mr. Childs -reminded:.the Commission members, that the City had previously accepted 54 a total .height of 64 feet for the Kenzington project after .many meetings with the 55 neighbors in back of the site.