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r � Boa ill PAGE 132 requirements "...for building facades that do not abut residentially designated areas or front on public or platted roads." For manufacturing facilities located along 98th Avenue, this means that building facades that face 9816 Avenue must meet the SR 60 Corridor Plan architectural/building and foundation planting requirements. Last May, staff held a pre -application conference for a proposed new 6,000 square foot distribution/warehouse building for Dayco and informed the applicant of the special requirements that would apply to the east facade of the building that would "face" 98th Avenue. Although the applicant did not object to various other SR 60 Corridor Plan requirements, concerns were expressed about the special requirements that would apply to the building's east face. At the request of the 98th Avenue manufacturers, planning staff met, in June, with Chamber of Commerce staff and representatives of the four manufacturing businesses located on the west side of 98th Avenue. These manufacturers are: Float -On, Nylacarb, M.A. Ford, and Dayco (see attachment #2). At the meeting, staff listened to concerns, presented the purpose and intent of the requirements, and discussed alternatives. Subsequently, in July, staff coordinated with the manufacturers, Chamber of Commerce sta$ and the two members of the SR 60 On-going Review Task Force serving at that time (Gene Waddell and Robert White) and developed a proposed LDR amendment that is acceptable to all parties. As previously stated, the amendment was presented in August to the Board, and the Board authorized formal consideration. On September 16#h the PSAC and the SR 60 On-going Review Committee Task Force met jointly and voted unanimously to recommend adoption of the 98th Avenue manufacturing area exemption. The proposed amendment, if adopted, would: 1. Designate for Corridor Plan purposes a "98"' Avenue Manufacturing District", located several hundred feet south of SR 60, on the west side of 98t1 Avenue. 2. Exempt manufacturing uses in this "district" from architectural/building and foundation planting requirements along the 981 Avenue "face" of buildings. 3. Require compliance with SR 60 Corridor Plan color, signage, and Thoroughfare Plan road (98th Avenue) buffer requirements. 4. Allow an alternative Thoroughfare Plan road (98th Avenue) buffer requirement, whereby the 4' berm/hedge requirement may be reduced to a 2' berm or hedge in exchange for an increase in canopy or understory trees. This proposal is based upon the 9816 Avenue manufacturing "district's" unique standing within the corridor. Within the corridor, this "district" is the only concentration of industrially zoned manufacturing uses that are not open to the public. This district includes no uses that would invite members of the public onto the business site (eg retail, accessory retail, repair, or self -storage uses). Thus, the "public face" of these improvements is the view of the site from 98'h Avenue rather than OCTOBER 26, 1999 0 -66-