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. ? would be on two sides of the building. The blue is called an automotive blue. He advised Mrs. Krieger that there is a flood light behind the build.ing, a lighted pole sign in the front, and a street light near it. Mr. Schlauch believed that making the suggested changes would be changing their whole unage. Mr. Yager stated that they would have time to come up with a better solution and the board would rather that they would come up with a nice building system with a sign on it. Mr. Steffan advised that he did not want to look at the neon, and that he appreciated the remarks about the dumpster and noted that there was a drain right by the dumpster which has stand.ing water. The proposal was continued until March 22nd and Mr. Schlauch will talk with the owners before he returns.. The members would aLso like him to cliscuss enclosing the dumpster with them. 2) Sunnyside Saturn Dealership, 27000 Lorain Road. Proposal to convert former Toyota show room for use by Saturn with a new building facade and the addition of planters. Heard by Planning Commission February 14, 1995. Mr. Stoyanov, representing the developer, presented the plans for the new proposal and pictures of the existing facility. He explained that due to the popularity of Saturn, Sunnyside has decided to open a second facility in the previous Toyota building and the Toyota Dealership will move next door with the Mazda dealership. These alterations will conform to the design elements for a Saturn building with 3 iuain features: a new white stucco facade with horizontal reveals, 30 inch ou center; two raised steel canopies (gray) to define the entrances and to provide shelter to customers; and a new planter in front of the building with a single car display which will elimiuate all the current parking in front. They will be including a 30 foot screen wall on the east side of the building to limit the visibility of the garage service doors on Lorain Road. Additional landscaping will be done along Lorain Road in front of both the Saturn and the Toyota/Mazda bu.ilding. He explained that the Toyota building will also be renovated, and he did have the plans which he had shown to Planniug Commission, but Toyota has not approved them as yet. The Plauning Commission had indicated that they would consider the Toyota Building renovations as a minor change. He presented a picture of an existing Saturn building and a list of materials (included in file). He clarified that they are eliminating all the bumper to bumper display and installing pads for the display of a few cars in the landscape buffer. He clarified for Mr. Yager, that Sunnyside has purchased both properties just recently so they can now go forward with these renovation. Mr. Yager believed that the board should look at both buildings because the buildings should tie together. After viewing the plans, he stated that the two bu.ildings were not consistent. Mr. Stoyanov responded that both designs were based on the manufacturers design requirements and that the colors would be the same. Mr. Yager stated that the Saturn build.ing with the canopies presented a good image, but he really thought that the planters needed heavier planting and color added, but he realized that many cars would be elimiuated which was better than displaying them right up to the curb. Mr. Stoyanov advised that each pad could hold 2 cars, and basically they duplicated what had been previously approved for the Toyota/Mazda building. Mr. Yager thought that there was only one car on the pads at Saturn. Mr. Stoyanov clarified that tliese displays would not be on a steel lift that is there now, the cars would be on concrete pads at grade. Mr. Yager would like to see more consistency in the two buildings but believed that this should be cliscussed with the Toyota building and believed that Toyota would change their design if necessary. Regardiug the Toyota building, Mr. Yager did not believe that they were limited by 3