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Council Minutes of 5/16/2006 Councilman Gazeau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: --~ 1) The committee met on Tuesday, April 26. In attendance were committee members Gazeau, Miller and Orlowski; Council Members Barker, Jones and Talton; Law Director Dubelko, Planning Director Wenger, City Engineer Mike Raig, Assistant Building Commissioner Rymazczyk and guests. The following items were discussed: • Wellington Place, 4800 Clague Road. A proposal to construct athree-story senior residence facility and other site improvements. The project will be a three-story wing on a senior residence facility with living units provided for assisted living, Alzheimer's care and skilled nursing. Parking areas and drives will be extended to serve the new wing. The building architecture for the addition will exactly match the existing facility in style and materials. New landscaping will be installed around the addition. The applicant proposes to retain a natural setting for the balance of the site and to maintain existing trees to the greatest extent passible. Buffering for neighboring properties is provided in part by existing vegetation and a six foot tall board-on-board cedar fence along the south property line. That was installed when the original project was approved. The issue of screening was sent to the City Forester for review. He has since made the following report to the BZD Committee concerning additional passible screening by way of trees and mounds: A 2-3 foot tall mound with 6-8 foot Colorado Spruce planted on it would be the best way to fill in the gaps to help screen the proposed building. Dead trees and patches of briars where the mound would go will be removed. The mound will be 1416 feet wide and be 4-5 feet from the fence. The mound could start where the existing wooden fence ends and run east approximately 200 feet. The trees would be planted on a triangular pattern on 12 foot centers. The City Forester believes the above would provide the greatest amount of screening. It should be noted that the mounding will have two drains on each side of the length of the mound. The next issue that was discussed was storm water drainage, with respect to specifically the water that was being kept in people's rear yards en Mastick. It appeared from a discussion from a number of residents that alterations had been made to, not only the property in question because of the development, but same of the residential properties with respect to run-off and raising the elevation. This matter was sent to City Engineer Mike Raig for review. (Per request of Councilman Gazeau, Mr. Raig's report is attached to the minutes.) The committee discussed what affect lighting has on the adjacent properties. Although the light was not physically intruding onto the property or spilling over, the tight from the building and the parking field could be seen and it did create a different atmosphere in the neighborhood. With respect to the building, there was not much that could be done with the internal illumination; however, Wellington Director Rick Meserini agreed that the tower lights would be turned off at 9:30 p.m. after nurses' rounds were made. This is not part of the approval, but it was a gesture on their part to take care of a concern that the neighbors had raised. With respect to the balance of the lighting in the parking field, the applicant was sent back to conceive of a revised light proposal that would deal with the light nuisance issue on the adjacent properties. Another issue discussed as part of the proposal was the fact that existing outpatient 5