Staff is recommending that the planning commission approve the resolution rescinding and replacing resolution 202411 regarding a site plan review for the property 11501 KTEL Drive.

This proposal has been um a collaboration between the tenant and the property owner for the proposed site plan.

Effectively, it's a leech tank, a capture and leech tank, and not a weer. It's not going to dump somewhere else is what I'm hearing.

Uh that is meant that in this case of expanding for the purpose of one specific tenant for their operational needs, that's not a long-term uh solution to do with other tenants. Whereas they're they're coming up on their 7,000 ft of impervious surface coverage left. So it's not something that they can continue to do.

Um, yes, Commissioner Henry. We've put a lot of consideration into will we be able to grow in this footprint. This is Rainbow's headquarters. So, a lot of our office and administrative staff offices out of this facility. Uh it's it's part of our operations, but we absolutely can fulfill our operations with this. We're we're losing a section and this brings back a section to make it work for us long term. So, we feel very confident in that.

I'm thinking about this sort of from a holistic city standpoint where we've just had we've had two proposals so far this year where we've had underutilized parking lot that we've now converted into a coffee shop... And here we are say let's take this green space. It's breaking up two buildings. Um and so the only trees in this on this site which I imagine your um people who work at your headquarters like to sit under those trees and have their lunch um and say let's pave this over um so that we can park some things here when we have so much underutilized parking in the city. So this is I think from a from an individual business perspective, from an individual site perspective, yes, code allows up to 65% imperous surface. Um but if I'm thinking from a broader city perspective, long-term, do we want to add more parking to um to this site?

The other use that we foresee with the site is staging trees for tree planting. Uh it's something that we're currently doing and the space that's being utilized is being taken away as an area that we're using to stage future trees for the urban forest that we're preparing to plant. So those things will be is what this area will also be used for. Um the loss of the trees is not lost on us. You know, it definitely was as we looked at it. Um you know, it was a concern. the prior plan, uh, the one that was approved before, actually, we think would remove more trees to the north, very tall trees that are, um, significant for wildlife, and we really want to keep those trees.