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CZC Submittal Narrative & Design Standards Exceptions
Date: October 2, 2020
Project/#: 2020-354 — DID3
Prepared By: Travis Gold
Attention: Bill Parsons
City of Meridian
bparsons@meridiancity.org
(208) 884-5533
Dear Bill,
Architecture.
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Please find the following narrative and enclosed documents for our CZC submittal for DID3. Let me know if there
are any questions or comments that need to be addressed immediately.
Thank you,
Travis Gold, Associate
(714) 402-1652
Narrative:
The proposed approximately 141,360 SF E-commerce delivery station is located just north of Franklin Road
between N Ten Mile Road and N Ward Lane. The concrete tilt warehouse building is in zoning district I-L and
follows the intent of the design criteria as noted in the included Design Review Checklist for Non -Residential
buildings. The use of architectural building elements, site elements and landscaping, which are all identified and
described in the colored building elevations, site plan, landscape plan, etc., fully explain the cohesive nature of
the design through scale, building form and materials.
Below, please note the specific sections where we are requesting Design Standard Exceptions.
Design Standard Exceptions:
5.11J
`7n Industrial Districts, untextured concrete panels and prefabricated steel panels are prohibited as facade field
materials facing arterial and collector roadways, or public spaces, except when used with a minimum of two other
qualifying field materials and meeting standard fenestration requirements. Concrete panels that do not exceed
three (3) SQFT without a patterned reveal or modulation break may be considered textured. "
Reason for requested exception:
The building fagade that faces the collector road is the South building elevation. This is also the truck dock and
the use of the truck dock does not lend itself to horizontal articulation in the plane of the wall to allow for trucks to
successfully berth. The facade maintains the overall building architecture and frequency of the horizontal and
vertical reveals as seen throughout the exterior of the building — adding additional reveals on this elevation to limit
the smooth portion of the wall to less than 3 sq ft would require many more reveals in both directions. The
additional reveals would not only not align with the rest of the building architecture, but it would degrade the
architectural experience as the reveals would be overdone.
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5.3113
"For industrial district properties, will -call and roll -up doors are allowed when integrated into the building design,
but loading docks are prohibited. Consider material variation, transitions, modulation, and other architectural
features and standards for the design."
Reason for requested exception:
The South elevation of the building, facing the new collector road is the proposed truck dock. While the layout of
the site lends itself to the most economical design and circulation for the fleet and associate traffic, we are
proposing a heavily landscaped visual barrier between the loading dock and the street — refer to landscape site
plan. Additionally, the loading dock drive -able surface is lower than the adjacent street grade which assists in
screening the dock from public view. We believe the intent of the code is being met to visually obstruct the
loading dock from the public view by strategic use of both landscape screens and hardscape grades. Please also
refer to the colored building elevations, civil plans and line of site study.
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