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, t are also proposing to relocate one of the trees that is currently in the green space behind the Tony Roma's building, the tree in between Tony Roma's and the drive-through bank closest to Brookpark Rd. the large tree will remain and they will relocate one of the trees out in the Tony Roma's green area. They have met with the city forester, Dave Wendell, and looked at potentially saving some of those trees that exist there today. Mr. Hough then commented that NIr. Wendell told them only one tree is salvageable. They plan to replace all dying or dead trees as well as add more landscaping. They have met with Tony Roma's to discuss their proposal and they asked Mr. Hough to have the cominission consider joining the driveways along side the building. Tony Roma's has their own separate parking field presently and Home Depot is proposing their own separate parking field, but maybe they could join the two parking field closest to the buildings. Tony Roma's has also asked Home Depot to extend the current landscaping to make it all one landscape bed. They will have 646,000 square feet on 55 acres after these two proposals are added in, which results in a 26.9 percent coverage calculation and the city requires a 25 percent coverage requirement so variances will need to be requested. As far as parking goes they have 1,992 actual parking spaces, Mr. Conway pointed out to them 33 spaces they missed behind the HomePlace building, and on the southern side they have 711 spaces. They are proposing to add 130 spaces to the parking lot. Currently 32 spaces are land banked behind the JoAnn Fabrics building and share 622 parking spaces they share with the mall. Total spaces are 3,552 parking spaces allocated to their development and 3,363 required so 200 more parking spaces when you add the easement area from the mall together with their actual and proposed parking. Mr. Dave Ports came forward to review the landscaping and materials being used more in detail. The proposed building is the same height and proportion as the Tony Roma's building. The building is all masonry, which is a light color for the upper faceious and a brick red color for the lower faceious. There will be a red awning and signs. Detailing and colors will be consistent with the what was done at the plaza building. Propose a 1 to 1 replacement for the trees. Providing additional landscaping at the Tony Roma's patio area and they have pulled the building as far away from the Tony Roma's patio area in order to make that space larger. There is an existing tree at the north side of the patio area that they do want to maintain, it is tight to the building but they feel they can maintain that tree given good screening between the patio and street. The dumpster enclosure along Brookpark Rd. is a white painted concrete enclosure, which they plan to add on to with the same height and materials as the existing enclosure. The rear portion of the building is a service area for the tenant. There is an existing tree line along the sidewalk along Brookpark which is missing some trees, which they will fill in with the same species as the rest of the trees. Mrs. O'Rourke questioned if the awnings and the coloring would be Tony Roma red or Home Depot orange. Mr. Ports answered red so it is not matching the plaza building. They are a contemplating a metal awning so as it does not fade with time. Mrs. O'Rourke questioned the lighting on the building. Mr. Ports replied there would be under-canopy lighting, to light up the store fronts, the parking lot lighting will probably end with two additional light poles to the submitted lighting scheme. Mr. Spalding questioned what the proposed use for the building would be. Mr. Ports replied strictly retail. NIr. Spalding commented that the developers have a fair amount of land to the east of this property and inquired if that would be developed in the near future. Mr. Ken Fisher replied that the land was not owned by Developers Diversified. They have 10 feet to the east of their building and from then on the property is owned by the mall. Mr. Ta11on questioned what could they do to make the dumpster enclosure look similar to the other dumpster enclosure. Mr. Ports replied that they could apply some sort of a tile surface or pattern to it but would rather just 2