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Excerpts/rom the Planning Commission Meeting Minutes Agenda No. 06-02 January 26, 2006 Page 2 0/6 light industrial space, and, a manager's office and residence. This portion of the project would be visible to traffic on Washington Avenue. The other two-thirds of the project, involving rezoning from CC Community Commercial District to IL(PD) Industrial Limited Planned Development Overlay District, would be devoted to six storage buildings, reduced from ten storage buildings in the previous proposal. Mr. Penaranda provided a Powerpoint presentation on the project. A detailed staff report and other pertinent documents are included in tonight's meeting packet. Planner Penaranda said one of the issues that had arisen at previous Planning Commission meetings was the visibility of a perimeter exterior facing wall to the sides and rear of the project. He provided slides that illustrated that there is little if any visual impact from the exterior walls bounding the back portions of the project. He said the only visible section of the exterior wall would be along 143rd Street where about 70 feet of wall is visible at a distance. Planner Penaranda said that Applicant Landes had also conducted a sign study and was recommending visually unobtrusive box-mounted signs attached just below the roof canopIes. Planner Penaranda said staff is recommending approval subject to the conditions listed in the report. He said one condition would require that the commercial-light industrial portion of the project be constructed first or concurrently so that upgrades to the frontage on Washington Avenue occur prior to the completion of habitable self-storage facilities constituting the rear two-thirds of the project. He said he had also included among the conditions a list of permitted uses under both the CC(PD) and IL(PD) zoning. If future proposals fit that list, any such uses would be approved administratively without coming back to the Planning Commission and City Council for hearings. Applicant Mark Landes spoke briefly, saying that the development team had worked diligently to address every information request and design recommendation raised by commissioners and staff. He noted that staff had provided a wholehearted recommendation on behalf of the proj ect. Chair K1eebauer called for questions and comments on the project. Vice-Chair Perras said he is pleased with the project as currently proposed. Chair K1eebauer asked if tenants not requiring roll-up doors could put a second floor or loft-type structure inside their particular unit if they required additional office or commercial space. Planner Penaranda said the space was designed to be used by anywhere from one to nine units. He asked Mr. Landes to reply to the question about second-floor space. Applicant Landes said that some tenants would want to erect a 10ft or internal second story for storage purposes. He requested the option, saying he wanted as much flexibility as possible to address potential tenants' requirements. He also said he had no problem with the condition requiring no occupancy in the self-storage areas until the retail- commercial area in the front is entirely built out, except that for logistic reasons, related to large equipment access, he wished to build out the basic structures in the self-storage area prior to erecting the basic structures in the commercial-light industrial area.