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Council Minutes of 12/7/2004 • Turf Specialists, 31407 Bradley Road with a proposal to construct a storage building in an industrial zone. The building will be used to store lawn maintenance equipment. The proposal includes lighting modifications, buffering and a new driveway to the new storage building. The proposal seeks to consolidate, for purposes of operations, equipment on one location. The representative for Turf Specialists indicated that he currently is required to store his equipment at three different sites. He also indicated, due to a lack of an inside storage, he has experienced theft of equipment, theft of license plates and vandalism. The new shed will allow him to operate more smoothly and protect his investment. The committee unanimously recommended approval subject to all recommendations of the boards and commissions. Councilman Gareau moved that Council approve the proposal of Turf Specialists, 31407 Bradley Road, to construct a storage shed subject to all the recommendations of the various city boards and commissions. The motion was seconded by Councilman McKay and unanimously approved. • Kennedy Ridge Townhouses on Kennedy Ridge Road. The proposal consists of landscaping and lighting modifications along with additional fencing. This project was originally approved by City Council some time ago. In the original approval, the lighting requirements for the first six lights back from Kennedy Ridge Road were 15 inch lights. Instead of constructing this low-level ground lighting for the driveway, the developer unilaterally changed the lighting scheme and installed 15 foot lighting on poles. This obviously caused a problem. The developer then reduced the lights from 15 feet to 12 feet, believing that would be okay, and then decided to bring it back to the BZD Committee. The developer did acknowledge there was an oversight, probably miscommunication aswell, in believing that the project could be varied without having approval from the city. He was very cooperative and sorry that the situation had come about. The Planning Commission had recommended approval of the 12 foot lighting scheme that had been adopted. However, Council committee was not inclined to do so. BZD Committee made a motion to recommend approval of a reduction in the lighting from the current 12 foot back down to a 24 inch ground lighting scheme. That motion was approved unanimously. However, an additional communication has been received from the developer consistent with what had been discussed that night regarding whether a 24 or a 36 inch lighting scheme would be appropriate. At the request of Councilman Gareau, Planning Director Wenger came forward to speak on this issue. She said the applicant did contact the Planning Dept. today by fax indicating that they had checked with several lighting suppliers and that the lowest lighting they found was 36 inches for that type of development rather than home gardening purposes. She conferred with the Assistant Building Commissioner who contacted that light provider. They confirmed that 36 inches was the shortest available. But upon further phone calling to various lighting providers this afternoon, the Assistant Commissioner indicated he did find one or two sources that sell 24 inch lights. That information will be provided to the applicant to determine if they can use one of those lower lights as approved. 7