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CITY OF NORZTi OLMSTED ARCHITECTUItAL BOARD OF REVIEW MINUTES--APRIL 26, 1994 COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 5:30 P.M. SPECIAL MEETING , I. ROLL CALL: Chairman Zergott called the meeting to order at 5:40 p.m. Present: S. Krieger, Y. Sohn, and B. Zergott. Absent: T. Gallagher. Also Present: Building Commissioner Conway and Clerk of Commissions Oring. II. REVIEW AND CORRECTION OF MINUTES: The review of,minutes was deferred Until the next meeting. III. SIGNS: These signs were informally reviewed prior to the Board of Zoning Appeals, and the recomnendations made by the Board of Zoning Appeals reflected the members' recommendations. IV. OLD BUSINESS: 1) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Property located on Brookpark Road, ea.st of the Westbury Apartments and west of Colebrook and Clareshire Condominiums. Tabled by Architectural Review Boaxd Apri1 20, 1994. Mr. Newberry introd.uced the Wal-Mart representatives, M. Bingham, real estate representative, Mr. Herbsman, architect, Mr. Tucker, mana.ger of the Medina store. The landscape architect was not present. Mr. Newberry explained tha.t, as discussed, evergreen trees have been relocated, and added to the area between the truck dock and the Clareshire Court CondominiUms, the landscape plan has the same number of plants but locations have been changed, they ha.ve relocated some trees to the buffer along Brookpark Road, and shown trees that are to be preserved along the eastern line-and the truck dock area. They are discussing relocating some existing small caliper trees with the forester. Along the east side of the property there will be an 8 foot inound which originally ran in a straight line along the property line and is now shown in a curvilineax alignment which has been changed to preserve some of the mature (30 to 40 inch caliper) trees along the east property line: They will be re-grading the ditch on the, east property line and incorporating some drains in order to make it flow more sznoothly. Since there was concern about the velocity of the water that wi.ll get to the ditch, they will be cutting the drainage to the mound by about a third by moving some of the water onto the Wal-Mart side of the mound. With these improvements and the plarmed vegetation, they believe that they can maintain and direct the water so that-there is a minirmun disturbance to the mound. Mr. Herbsman, the architect, presented materials. On the front vestibule area they have contiriued the scored pattern on the Dryvit, to give more interest in the canopy areas near the entrances. They have incorporated a.knee wall with piers into the wrought iron fence along the garden center. He presented a sample of the integrally colored split face block with a textured pa.ttern in an antique white which will be installed below the accent band and the cobblestone block which will be above it. Regarding the fencing on the mound, Mr. Newberry stated that it was commented that if there was to be a brick like building, a brick fence might not be appropriate. He believed that the brick wall on the mound would be heavy and