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Victor Land Holdings, LLC, Pre Plat, Final Plat, Site Plan, CUP, Variance, and Easement Vacation Page 5 earth tones, except, to create a decorative effect, 20 percent of the building facade (excluding window and door areas for the computation) may be decorated with glazed tile, glass, plastic or metal panels, or wood of various colors.” The purpose and intent of the guidelines and ordinance are to ensure high quality design and building materials for commercial and industrial buildings and to improve the overall quality of development in the City. The ordinance was created to prevent the construction of tin sheds and pole barns and the use of low quality metal products and to ensure that buildings are attractive and durable. The applicant is requesting a variance from the construction standards ordinance in the City Code to allow the buildings to be constructed with architectural metal panels. The applicant is showing the building being constructed with all architectural metal panels. They state that they are extremely high quality metals that are a long lasting product. Staff has the materials samples and they are a high gauge metal that is different from what you would see on a typical pole barn building. The majority of the metals is proposed to be a grey and the accent metal is proposed to be a wood grain. Staff has completed research on the proposed architectural metal panels and has seen that more commercial and industrial building are using this type product. The building will be a flat roof and include overhead doors on the buildings interior to the campus site. There are windows on all sides of the buildings and glass balconies that access the mezzanine areas. The applicant has provided variation in colors further broken up by the windows. It was in staff’s opinion that the buildings have architectural elements that are attractive, the building material is high quality, and the buildings will be a good addition to the area, with the condition that the base of the building include brick, block, or stone to the base of the building at least 3 feet in height on each side of the buildings. Staff provided is information to the Planning Commission and recommended approval of the applications, with the condition that the applicant add brick, stone, or block (or like material) 3 feet in height to the building. The applicant’s architect, Mark Wentzell, made a presentation to the Planning Commission on the architectural metal panels proposed for the building materials. Mr. Wentzell stated that there will be a foundation to the building that will exposed and finished with black stucco. He stated adding an additional material would take away from the intentional design of the building that the applicant wanted. The Planning Commissioners generally agreed that they liked the plans and the overall design of the building, including the architectural metal panel building material. They felt the materials were high quality and met the intent of the design guidelines. The Planning Commission unanimously approved the applications, subject to the conditions in the resolutions, with the revision to the site plan resolution to remove the requirement to add brick, stone, or block (or like material) 3 feet in height around the building. The resolutions in the City Council packet reflects the Planning Commission recommendation. Variance from Building Material Requirements Staff used these standards to review the variance request and finds that it meets the standards as follows: