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Council Minutes of 10/3/2006 ,~, indicated that, in considering any completed application, the Director of Planning shall ~,, solicit input from the Planning & Design Commission architect and/or the Planning & Design Commission landscape professional as well as any affected city official or city department. After considerable discussion, the committee recommended unanimously that Ordinance 2006-130 be amended consistent with the version that was brought forward to the last meeting and including the changes that specifically outlined in 1126.09 (a) (2), (b) (2), (c) (2} ro}. Councilman Gareau made a motion to amend Ordinance 2006-130 consistent with the format that is before City Council this evening. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller and passed unanimously. Ordinance 2006-130 amended. A presentation from H & M Clothiers, 270 Great Northern Mall, was made. The proposal consists of the final phase of refacing the north side of Great Northern Mall. Archivers and Wild Mango have already gone in there. The tenant will be located in the former T. G. I. Friday's space. The applicant proposes to create a storefront to the outside of the mall and will have an entrance from the inside of the mall as well. The storefront will be comprised of a combination of stone, stucco and glass. In addition to the H & M space, Westfield did bring forward a comprehensive proposal to address the loading area. They proposed to remove existing screen walls to construct new walls further back and flush with the new storefront. It opens up the sidewalk area for pedestrian traffic. The stucco will be wrapped around the east side of the building into the loading dock area. Planning & Design did recommend that the Archvers wall treatment wrap the corner into the dock area as well, which is shown in the plans submitted. It is important to note there is landscaping. Mr. Miller brought up the fact that there has been extensive landscaping done along Brookpark Road, which is quite an improvement. Additional landscaping is now going in along the building. It is quite significant, and it is irrigated. The proposed sign will meet code requirements. As part of the Archivers and Wild Mango renovation, the property owner did submit and was required to submit a master sign plan. Initially, it was deemed by the $uilding Dept. to be insufficient, and the applicant will be required to complete the master sign plan before obtaining an occupancy permit. That is a requirement. A representative from Great Northern Mall was not present. There were several questions posed by different members of Council concerning this proposal, questions regarding the screen wall composition and method of construction, and overall concerns.. about the general direction the mall was going. The committee voted unanimously to hold the matter in committee. Councilman Gareau continued his report for the Building, Zoning & Development Committee which met on Tuesday, October 3, 2006, at 6:45 p.m. Present .were committee members Orlowski, Gareau, Miller; Council Members Tallon, Barker, President Kennedy; Planning Director Wenger, Mayor O'Grady. Also present and providing input were two repre~ntatives from Westfield, Mr. Steve Greenberger, director of construction special projects group, and Evan Vlaeminck. It was explained that the interior component of the screen wall is of the current brick composition and is also painted. It's maintained on a yearly basis. as it's only available to be seen by anybody who actually enters the loading area. As indicated, it will be moved back. The exterior is not EIFS, but stucco as they felt stucco was a more durable surface. Mr. Tallon brought up the issue of whether they would be willing to modify the'wall to include and extend a brick fascia that comes across the bottom to be included on the wall. This was talked through