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ATTACHMENT 6 PUD-118, Mike Carey Applications for: (1) certificate of appropriateness to demolish all existing structures; (2) rezoning of an approximately 13,040-square-foot site from 0 (Office) to PUD-MU (Planned Unit Development — Mixed Use); and (3) PUD Development Plan approval to construct: (a) an approximately 2,229-square-foot three-story mixed-use building with office/retail space on the first-floor and three apartments on the second- and third-floors; and (b) three, three-story detached single-family homes with potential office space on the first-floors and related site improvements at the property located at 4791 Augustine Street. Natalie Amos presented the staff report and described the scope, layout, and key elements of the proposal. Commissioner Allen: Natalie you said that the guidelines don't specify metal, but I want to be really true to the guidelines and I'm looking at page 36 of the Downtown Design Guidelines that were updated right after the historic guidelines were done two years ago and it actually precludes metal specifically. It says, "Use natural exterior materials. Fake stone, rough-hewn wood or plywood, metal, or plastic should not be used as exterior siding." Then further on another point it says, and I realize this second point is a little grey, but the first one on siding to me is black and white. The next one says, "Metal roofs are discouraged; however, metal shingles that resemble shake or tile with a dull finish and muted color may be approved." Furthermore what I did is look at the Council meeting that was used to approve this and I found that metal was brought up to the Council and the 4-1 vote was we do not want it and there were a set of decisions and then that drove these guidelines. Relative to historic standards and I didn't know this at the workshop; this level of discussion because all we discussed was those two little houses and whether they were historic, but I had no idea that this was a potential issue. So, you know, I'm a little concerned about the use of metal because I think if you start using it and it sounds like it wasn't intended to be used, as we know, it's a precedent for other homes and we could end up with a lot of homes that have this. So I wanted to just ask you, when you said it wasn't mentioned, on the siding it was specifically excluded. Amos: Yes, for siding it is listed, but the applicant is using it in small portions of the architecture for that part of it. They do have it in some elements. It could be open and the Planning Commission could decide that we could remove the metal if that is part of the conversation the Planning Commission wants to have. Commissioner Allen: And on the roofing are we using as they say these small metal shingles that resemble shakes or tiles, or it looked like we were using more of the long sheets. Amos: Correct; it's shown in the color material plan sheet but it is a longer version of it. Commissioner Allen: So it appears we're not being consistent with this. Chair Ritter: You said other residents downtown use the same type of roofing? Or sheet metal? EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 1 of 21