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2004-10-06 - Appearance Review Team - Minutes Board orCommission: ❑Appearance Review Team Document Type: ❑A e g nda 0 Minutes Meeting ate: 10/06/2004 Type of Meeting: ❑ Regular Meeting Appearance Review Team (ART) Meeting 6:30 p.m., 10/6/2004 Twin Creeks Park— Buffalo Grove Park District Petitioner: Michael Rylko, Executive Director of the Buffalo Grove Park District ART TEAM: Lester Ottenheimer, Plan Commission Chairman Denice Bocek, Plan Commissioner Robert Pfeil, Village Planner Greg Summers, Associate Planner ALSO PRESENT: John Green, Groundwork Ltd. Michael Rylko, Executive Director, Buffalo Grove Park District Martha Weiss, President, Buffalo Grove Park District CC: Jeffrey Braiman, Trustee Liaison to the Plan Commission Bruce Kahn, Trustee Liaison to the Plan Commission Plan Commission SUBJECT SITE 401 Aptakisic Road (Southwest Corner Buffalo Grove &Aptakisic Roads) PETITIONER REQUEST Petitioner Michael Rylko, Buffalo Grove Park District, is seeking approval of a preliminary plan in the R-1 District. The plan proposes construction of a new active park facility with uses including a miracle baseball field, safety town, a playground, frisbee (disc) golf, bocce, a classroom and maintenance/storage building, and associated parking and storm water detention. ART NOTES The ART team members convened at 6:30 p.m. to preview the plans as submitted by Groundwork Ltd. Team members identified a list of concerns including reducing the quantity of cementitious siding, the location of lighting for the building and site, questions regarding the clearstory windows of the maintenance/storage building and also expressed both understanding and concerns about the use of split faced concrete masonry units. At 6:45 p.m. the petitioner's team joined the meeting and Mr. Green reviewed the site plan and building elevation changes from 2003 to 2004. Since the time of the original plan the Park District has added the miracle field, shifted and turned the maintenance/storage building, the storm water area has been increased, and the Frisbee golf course had been expanded to nine holes through utilization of the adjacent Village property. Mr. Green also indicated that the site will be lit by security lighting and that cameras will also monitor the site. Chairman Ottenheimer asked if the miracle field would be lit and where the building lights would be located. Mr. Green responded that the miracle field will have security lighting only, not lighting for night games. The building will have lights at each exit as well as some lights at the southeast corner for general ambient lighting of the site. Commissioner Bocek asked if the building trim color was too dark, giving the overall building a dated appearance. Mr. Green reviewed the building. The building will be a pre-engineered structure with a shallow roof ( between a 3.5/12 and 4/12 pitch). The building will be 12 feet to the maintenance section eaves, 25 feet to the roof ridge. At the classroom wing of the building, the eaves would be 10 feet high and the roof ridge would be 20 feet high. The heights may vary approximately 12 inches depending on the final pre-engineered building manufacturer. The building will have large overhangs to create shadow effects and spandrel panels of translucent, insulated fiberglass for internal lighting and to add texture to the building elevations. The building will have a dark brown trim which was selected to blend with the wood timbers and soffit while not detracting from the landscape plan which proposes trees in a "grove" design. The building will have exposed timbers and wing walls for seating at the open area, masonry piers, and a wall space for a proposed mural on the east wall. Mr. Green does not think a dimensional shingle is appropriate for a building with this low of a roof pitch. Instead, he has selected a standard three tab shingle that is heavy textured. The outdoor storage yard will be screened by an 8 foot wall made of the same split-faced concrete masonry units as the maintenance/storage building. A shed roof may be added in the storage area in the future to protect items stored in the yard. Mr. Summers expressed concern about the mural area on the east side of the building where the cementitious siding panels extend to the base of the building. He noted that the Village Appearance Plan states that "buildings shall have the same materials, or those which are architecturally consistent with those that are used for all building components wholly or partly visible from public ways." He also asked if the mural wall would become a target for graffiti. Commissioner Bocek added that that mural wall would also be a maintenance issue and that the building should be more durable than that. Mr. Green stated that, in his opinion, the mural would add excitement, variety and uniqueness to this site. The ultimate decision as to whether to keep the mural area in the proposal is up to the Park District. Changing the wall to include the masonry base does not significantly alter the cost of the project. Ms. Weiss commented that she does not think the mural would encourage graffiti. The site will have security cameras, the site will be heavily used, and the mural would face a public road which would discourage graffiti. Their experience has been that properties with murals have a lower proportion of problems with graffiti. Mr. Summers said he would not have a concern with the mural if it faced internally to the site. His concern is that the wall is not consistent with the other elevations and it faces a right-of-way. Mr. Rylko withdrew the request for the mural wall, stating that the Park District will provide the 8 foot high masonry consistent with the other building elevations. Mr. Summers asked about fencing on the site. Mr. Green stated that the site will have some chain-link fencing. The safety town area will be fully enclosed by a 8 foot fence and the miracle field will be fenced the same as any baseball field would, including backstop, sideline, and outfield fencing. They cannot use a solid fence due to the location in the floodplain. Lake County Storm Water Management has given them verbal permission to proceed with the chain-link fence. Mr Green also noted that the "Autumn Purple Ash" trees on the landscape plan will be changed to "Hybrid Elm" at the request of the Village Forester. The ART team agreed that the deviations from the Appearance Plan were appropriate given the location and use of the site subject to the revision of the east wall to include the masonry base as present on the other three elevations of the maintenance/storage building. ., � , , . �au.�L,.�,. .,iu.,�.,iuni. i. i.L,. . �n,��uu��..�II �..�14.y. ir. ,�..�II, i.L,. � ,II I �..�y.y.r. , ,. .i a roof uru. .iulu.,afi. n fir. uru air.,Uiui.,. .,i.u.,�iraII p u u do-..,, �� � �.� ,�. ...... �' � ,.,� �.� �..,� �.� � .. � � ��� �� .,. .,.�,� � ���� � �� .�II. �� 4, ���;� .u��� � . irr�u u�,�� ��..�u�,�. H� II . .,i � i. �..� ��i.�.,�u�.,i u u�,�� ��.�..�u�u u�u.i.�.,�II it. . 14, ,l :3ulill ,fiiu°ugs .... Coffl CffloNul4 IC: a di°" "'°waee aiaix,11 u&J M twin creeks roof change 8-8-05.pdf --VH-IMAGE OF ' BUFFALO GROVE Fifty Raupp Blvd. Buffalo Grove,IL 60089-2100 Phone 847-459.2518 Fax 847-459-7906 8 August 2005 Mr. David Wytmar Groundwork,Ltd. 351 W. Dundee Road, Suite A Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089 SUBJECT: Twin Creeks Park Building—Roof Upgrade Mr. Wytmar, The Village's Appearance Review Team("ART")members have reviewed the proposed change from the architectural asphalt roof shingle("Owens Corning—Canyon Red")to a standing seam metal roof("VP Buildings—Cool Colonial Red"). The ART hereby approves this modification and a copy of this letter will be inserted into the appearance review file for the project. Sincerely, Greg E. Summers,AICP Associate Planner cc: William Balling,Village Manager Robert Pfeil,Village Planner Ken Lehmann,Plan Examiner