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20 `The applicant requests a waiver from Section 3.3 Circulation and Parking - Parking Standards of the EDD Design Manual' The applicant is requesting that required parking for retail uses be modified from one (1) space for every two hundred (200) square feet to one (1) space for every three hundred (300) square feet. The rationale for the request is that is will reduce the overall impervious surface area for the project and create more open space. Staff Comment: There is insufficient information for staff to comment on the proposed design solution. Staff recommends that the applicant be required to provide more detail justifying the proposed design solution prior to any recommendation being made by staff. 13. Waiver Thirteen (13) as outlined on page forty-nine (49) of the application reading as follows: `The applicant requests a waiver from Section 3.2 of the EDD Design Manual requiring that breaks in the MTC buffers be limited to one (1) and no more that twenty-five percent (25%) of the total buffer' The applicant is requesting that more `buffer breaks' be allowed along the Interstate to afford the development additional sight lines from the highway. The applicant is requesting the ability to create breaks within the required buffer of up to sixty percent (60%). The rationale for the request is that the breaks are necessary to accommodate proposed stormwater `quality devices' and that the areas will be re- landscaped to `create a more visually interesting landscape incorporating the open areas'. The applicant further requests that within the remaining forty percent (40%) protected buffer area that `hand clearing' of any existing vegetation be allowed provided that a minimum of fifty-four (54) trees per acre be maintained at all times. Staff Comment: There is insufficient information for staff to comment on the proposed design solution. Since this is a request to more than double the allowable `buffer breaks', more elaborate detail is necessary for what will remain as well as what low plantings may be part of the water quality retention areas. Staff recommends that the applicant be required to provide more detail justifying the proposed design solution prior to any recommendation being made by staff . 14: Waiver Fourteen (14) as outlined on page fifty (50) of the application reading as follows: `The applicant requests a waiver ,from Section 3.2 of the EDD Design Manual requiring fifty (SO) to ane hundred (100) foot buffers along adjacent residential properties along Buckhorn Road' The applicant is proposing to reduce this buffer to twenty-five (25) feet in width.