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Norm Wells fArchite( t PA (IN /1) September 26, 2011 City of New Brighton Attention: Janice Gundlach, City Planner New Brighton City Council New Brighton Planning Commission RE: Bell Lumber and Pole Company Proposed Second Floor Office Addition Bell Lumber and Pole Company is proposing to construct a 2304 square foot second floor addition above the existing single story office building addition that was constructed on the West side of the original building in 2009. This proposed addition will be placed on the walls of the 2009 building and will not increase the Site footprint of the existing office building. The proposed second floor will provide offices, a mechanical room and a new toilet room for the occupants of the new space. The proposed second floor will have a stairway that connects with the first floor corridor and the existing entrance/exit on the East side of the first floor which accesses the concrete sidewalk constructed in 2009. None of the existing mature trees and other landscaping features will be disturbed by the construction of the proposed second floor. The existing building has foundation plantings consisting of juniper, hosta, potentilla, spirea, and arborvitae. The existing building is a wood frame, wood sided building using cedar siding as cladding material. The proposed addition will continue this look with a hipped roof that helps reduce the mass of the building. Windows will match the existing first floor windows. The current building has a park-like setting with the wood construction set amongst the large existing trees. This same setting is what we expect to achieve upon completion of this project. When the previous addition was brought before the Planning Commission and City Council a discussion was held concerning the exterior building materials under Section 6-390. The original building exterior materials are cedar siding, and the addition was designed to match the original building. Building Elevation studies were done in an attempt to comply with Section 6-390, which states that "exterior treatment on the street side of the structure shall be brick, stone, tilt-up slabs, architectural metal panels, decorative block, or the equivalent." It was decided by the Planning Commission and the Council that cedar siding was an appropriate equivalent for the 2009 addition. With that decision we feel that cedar siding is an appropriate equivalent for the second story addition as it would be difficult to incorporate another material with the existing cedar siding on the building. Additional required parking requirements are exceeded with the proposed addition of 11 parking spaces at the East side of the East parking area which is currently used as pole storage. This will provide a total of 38 on site parking spaces, 4 more than the required 34 spaces. The new parking will be screened by an existing cedar fence. The addition of the bituminous parking area helps reduce an existing nonconforming issue with the additional 10,847 SF of bituminous paving ffc(aE I of