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agreed that any future external condensing unit for lobby air conditioning would be set within a masonry enclosure 3. GrabeK Concerns and Response Jim Grabek raised the issue of the proximity of the building to County Road 6, and the appearance of the north side o' the building from County Road 6, at our first neighbors' meeting. He has more specifically proposed that the building be shifted to the south part of the site, and that the part of the parking lot now programmed to lie on the south side of the building be placed between the building and County Road 6. We have looked at this proposal, but have decided not to adopt it, for the reasons stated in our April 2 letter to Jim. With respect to that issue, we note that: it is our strong desire to have the two parking lots, which are designed to integrate with the School District's lots, orient toward the School District's buildings and the other School District parking as much as possible. We believe that isolating parking on the north side of the building would be the kind of long-term functional mistake that we are trying in so many areas to avoid. our architectural advice is that facing the surface parking lot on County Road 6, with the north face of the building rising off the far edge of that lot, is a less pleasing aesthetic outcome than shielding the parking with the building itself. while we are at the 50 foot setback from the right-of-way of County Road 6, that 50 foot setback already applied to any School District development of the site. the Planning Commission heard a full presentation on this issue in its consideration of the conditional use permit, and each member, when individually polled on the issue, voted to stay with our proposed site plan. Although we have not fundamentally altered our site plan, we have done a number of things to address this concern: changed from the original curved roof to a flat roof