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Hugo Gardens Page 4 The developer is showing all seven buildings with the same exterior. The materials are a mixed of lap and board and batten fiber cement siding in white and grey with grey stone and white flat panel concrete accents. Staff encourages the applicant to expand the palette and provide additional colors to for variety to eliminate monotony within the project. • Four-sided design: Buildings are required to be designed in a manner where they look like the same building on all sides. The applicant is proposing a building that has been designed in a manner so that all sides of the building look generally the same. There are no unfinished sides. Each elevation contains doors, windows, and gables. Additionally, material treatments are applied to all four sides equally. • Building materials and design: Buildings are required to be constructed of high - quality materials and a variation of building materials and accent materials are to be used. The design guidelines require at least 25% of the building to be higher quality materials (other than lap siding). The plan shows 28-29.7% stone on the front and rear elevations and 21.6% stone on the garage elevations. This complies with intent of the guidelines. The plans do not show downspouts or gutters. These must be designed integral to the building and must be submitted for review and approval by staff. Final color palettes and physical material samples shall be provided to the City prior to final approval. The Downtown Plan & Design Guidelines were adopted in 2007 and provide additional standards for development on this site. The standards are intended to create a pedestrian friendly neighborhood and preserve the community character while allowing high quality urban development. The developer worked with staff to try to orient the buildings to Finale Avenue where possible and has incorporated building articulation with 2nd story balconies to create interest along the street as envisioned by the plan. Garage dominated buildings are discouraged in this district and the developer has oriented the buildings along the street so that the garages on are on the sides (not the front of the buildings). The garage impact is further minimized by the use of decorative garage doors that are designed as part of the building architecture. One of the requirements is regularly placed street trees and streetlights to create an urban edge. The landscape plan should be redesigned to better define this street edge, which could be accommodated by regularly spaced street trees, decorative iron fencing or other landscape elements. Lighting The ordinance requires lighting to consist of cut-off fixtures and for light cast on adjacent property and roads not to exceed '/z foot candle measured at the property line or 1-foot candle measured at the street's centerline.