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TO: Mayor and City Council <br /> FROM: Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br /> 4 <br /> DATE: February 16, 2001 <br /> SUBJECT: Frank Dunbar Senior Housing Proposal - Site Plan Issues <br /> The issues to be resolved regarding the site plan for the senior housing project are as follows: <br /> 1. Visual impact to the residences to the north. <br /> 2. Visual impact when viewed from the east on Highway 12. <br /> 3. Trail/sidewalk. <br /> 4. Frontage road. <br /> Visual Impact to Residences to the North <br /> In addition to reducing the easternmost portion of the building from three stories to two stories and <br /> moving the entire building to the south, the most recent site plan now reflects moving the office <br /> building and office parking lot to the south to create a larger buffer area adjacent to the residential <br /> property to the north. Dunbar has also indicated he will develop a screening plan through <br /> discussions with the adjacent property owners. <br /> Visual Impact at Highway 12 and Brown Road <br /> Throughout the review of the project,staff have indicated the importance of retaining as much of the <br /> existing vegetative screening as possible adjacent to the pond in front of the proposed building. In <br /> the most recent site plan, Dunbar has indicated the entire area in front of the building will need to <br /> be regraded, and new vegetation will need to be planted. Staff have indicated he needs to direct the <br /> grading contractor to save a strip of existing vegetation nearest the pond if at all possible. <br /> Trail/Sidewalk <br /> The developer was directed to add a trail to the site plan to serve two purposes. <br /> A. To provide a pedestrian connection to the office building, which was initially <br /> projected to be a medical building. <br /> B. To provide a connection from the senior building to the trail on Brown Road and the <br /> trail on Highway 12. <br /> In the most recent site plan,which eliminated the separate frontage road in favor of routing the office <br /> building traffic through the parking area of the senior building,the trail was added along the south <br /> side of the parking lot. In reviewing the site plan, staff believed the trail in this location would not <br /> be used and was duplicative of the sidewalk on the north side of the parking lot. Dunbar is revising <br />