2011-10 REZONING PROPERTY 3350 N WATER STREET

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c. Buffer yard number two (2) shall provide 50 percent of the required points in the form of an evergreen. d. Final site, landscaping and lighting plans shall be reviewed by the Department of Planning and Building Services, the Public Works Department and the Fire Department prior to construction. e. The site break fence should be relocated to the north edge of the parking lot (south, instead of north of buffer yard 1 where it is in the drawing), as the planning staff recommends. f. The fence should then be extended to a point north of the proposed rear (east) fence of the trash enclosure. g. The proposed rear (east) fence of the trash enclosure should be extended north and connected to the east end of the site break fence, forming a corner. h. The proposed rear (east) fence of the refuse enclosure should also be extended to a point even with the south edge of the north parking lot. i. The southeast corner of the trash enclosure is close to (the east) buffer yard 2 which is mostly in the floodplain. For much of the rainy part of the year, this will not be a buffer yard at all, but Spring Creek. The trash enclosure is less than the width of the buffer yard away from the floodplain, so the site break fence should enclose the activity area from the neighborhood. i. The "Evergreen Tree Screen" should be extended east beyond the corner of the "new" fence, and also be continued south, to a point even with the south edge of the north parking lot. i. The current "Evergreen Tree Screen" is inadequate, as it ends prior to the eastern edge of the parking lot, leaving the neighborhood unshielded from the east portion of the activity area (parking lot and trash). ii. This continued tree screen should occupy the open area between the east side of the garbage enclosure and the floodplain line. Optimal position would be at a 90° angle from the current evergreen tree screen and extending to the southern end of the parking lot, which would put its southern edge just south of the red sunset maple, or just about where the floodplain line starts bending to the east. j. The combination of the extended fence and continued tree screen will form an effective break between the development and the residential neighborhood (especially lots 18 and 19 which look directly south and west onto the north/northeast of the site). It will close the void that the current fence and area near the meeting of buffer yards 1 and 2 do not. It will also replace some of the trees recently cleared from the proposed location, as well as add to the neighborhood's wooded decor. Section 3. That the Districts hereinabove mentioned are those districts set forth and defined in Ordinance No. 3512 of the City of Decatur, Illinois, commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance, and all the provisions, regulations, restrictions and requirements therein set forth shall apply to the premises above described herein.