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Memo to Mayor and City Council/Menard, Inc. April 19, 2004 Page 4 W~/Storage Building The new storage building will be located to the rear of the existing outdoor storage area on what is now Outlot A. The building is 425 feet long and 158 feet wide. There is a rack storage system attached to the west and south sides of the building, facing the outdoor storage area. The building will be 28 feet high, from the finished floor to the top of the roof. The rear of the building, the side facing Dodge Street, will be precast concrete wall panels with a buff aggregate finish. The walls facing the interior of the lot will be green metal panels. The roof is proposed to be steel with a white finish. Customers entering the building will enter on the north end and exit at either the south or west side. No traffic from Menards will be able to exit on to Dodge Street. Customers will have to exit the lumber yard at the north end of the store and use the existing driveways. The impact of this expansion on the adjacent residential properties has to be assessed. With the proposed layout there will be a 140 foot buffer between the back of the storage building and the closest homes on the east side of Dodge Street. Included in that buffer is a 50 foot wide buffer of mature vegetation. There will be no homes behind Menards on the west side Dodge Street. With the current approved residential plat, there will be lots on the west side of Dodge Street that abut up directly with the back of the lumber yard. The houses will be about 100 feet from the outdoor storage area. Much of the activity that currently takes place in the outdoor yard behind the store will be moved inside the new building, resulting in less noise being generated. The new storage building will also act as a sound wall to reflect noise away from the residences along Dodge Street. The visual impact of the storage building, as seen from Dodge Street, will vary. At the north end, near the intersection with 196th Avenue, most of the building will be lower than the street. Someone standing in the street will see the roof of the building. As you travel south along Dodge Street, the elevation of the street gets lower and more of the building is visible. Canopy for Garden Crater and Emergoxy Access The site plan includes a canopy that will cover a garden center on the south end of the store. The canopy will nm the length of the building and be extend 72 feet from the end of the building. The front of the center will be a 4 foot high wall topped with a wrought iron fence. Above the fence will be green triangular accent panels and clear polycarbonate panels topped with a green accent stripe. The garden center will have direct access from the front. Conditions should be included that limits the storage and/or display area to inside the garden center. The existing 15 foot wide emergency access gate will be relocated to the south side of the building, adjacent to the new garden center and widened to 20 feet to provide better access. Storage and display can not block the emergency access. New Public Access to Lumber Yard The current public and truck access to the lumber yard will be moved to the north side of the store. This should not cause any problems. The parking lot will have to be reconfigured to allow for the truck traffic. 13 parking spaces will be removed. They still exceed to number S:\PLANNING\Case Files\2004\CU 04-04 Menards\CU04-04CC4-19.doc