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Planning Commission LOFT/UNAPPROVED T uary 24, 2000 Minute No. 2000-04 (Excerpt) Page 10 of 16 Ms. Swan stated, in response to questions from Commissioners Collier and Demirjian that cars as well as trucks as large as the F350 pickup truck would be sold at the Marina Boulevard dealership, but that the Ford Motor Company was not authorizing the sale of chassis for major trucks and delivery trucks at the site. Architect GaryWhitfield of Whitfield Associates, 1100 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, California, presented a discussion of the architectural design. He said that the TrustMark design characteristically includes a front entry kiosk set at a 45 degree angle to the site in order to address both frontages to the property. The kiosk serves as the main customer entry to the building. He said the service area adjacent to the showroom office was also treated as a major element with separate customer entry rather than being subordinated to the back part of the showroom area. He said the finish and building architecture were basically a contemporary style with most of the corners rounded and radiused in order to knock off some of the hard edge of the building and to soften the overall look. He said the primary material was white and gray in color is of drive-it material, a material with a smooth stucco-like finish that would be scored to break up the planes. He said the window treatment featured smaller windows as opposed to large showroom windows in order to give it more scale and detail. He said the storefront is of aluminum material with accents of Ford blue glass. He said the building was generally one and a half stories with a two-story portion that housed offices pushed to the rear to give relief from the edges of the building. Architect Whitmore noted that a solid wall behind a landscaped area was being utilized to screen the front display area from the area to the rear of the property which is the service and employee parking lot. He said that the wall was of sufficient size that nothing behind it would be seen by the public. He stated his opinion that landscaping in service areas of dealerships won't be maintained and usually does not survive. Commissioner Ravenstad asked what design options were available within the TrustMark program. Architect Whitmore responded that the design utilized standard TrustMark colors and that the so-called kiosk, which in reality was an entry and reception area, was a prototypical form that was reflected in the round corners elsewhere in the building. Commissioner Ravenstad noted that the building, at the distance it was set back from the street, had very little shape to it. He said he liked the kiosk's treatment with a 45- degree angle facing the corner. He asked if there was a way to increase the variation in height, particularly the height of the kiosk element, so the building could actually be perceived from Marina Boulevard and so it would be visually more interesting. G:'M1NUTES.PC/2000/2-24-2000 2/29/2000 140‘