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Premier Bank - Sketch Plan Collector Street. Flay Avenue is a residential local street. 1471h Street is a collector street in the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. If the property is to be planned as a standalone project, staff would recommend the access from 1471h Street. The site plan will be reviewed by MnDOT since it abuts Highway 61. Setbacks If the property is rezoned Central Business (C-1), the C-1 zoning district requires a 10 feet front yard setback, a 0 foot side yard setback, and 30 foot rear yard setback. Since the property is a corner lot it has two fronts along the streets and two sides to the north and east. The plan meets the setback requirements. The downtown design guidelines encourage a zero lot line for buildings along the road to create the traditional downtown main street atmosphere. Signage Downtown signage is critical to the character of the area. Signage and graphics should be integral to the building architecture or used as a design element. Back lit, box signs are not allowed. Corporate chains are encouraged to customize their architecture to express their brand within a design, context, and material appropriate with the character encouraged in the downtown design guidelines. The applicant is not showing any design plans for wall or freestanding signs. The applicant is showing a location of the freestanding monument sign at the southeast corner of the property. Gateway elements could be added to the corner as well. Architecture and Building Material The downtown design guidelines encourage new buildings to be designed with elements of traditional main street design, Hugo's French trading post roots, or mid -western prairie style architecture. Traditional main street style buildings usually have flat roofs with well defined roof lines. The French trading post architectural elements include steeper or mansard roofs, open storefronts, and exterior plaster with stone and brick. Prairie style architecture has hipped roofs with low spreading deep overhangs. All of these styles are presented with more detail in the guidelines. The applicant has not provided elevations for the proposed building, but has provided examples of what the building could look like. Although, it seems like the examples use quality building materials, it is unclear how the building examples would meet the downtown design guidelines. The building will need to meet the downtown design guidelines for the architecture of the building. The applicant has not shown the location or proposed screening for the roof or ground mechanical equipment. All mechanical equipment shall be screened from view in a way that is integral to the architecture of the building with similar materials. This could include the raising of the parapets to screen roof top mechanical equipment. E