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corner is made with special paving treatment and the installation of public art. The art has not yet <br />been selected or designed. <br />Two critical intentions of the Design Manual relating to Building Design are weakly met. First, the <br />only public entrance is barely visible from the S. 144th Street. Second, architectural advantage is not <br />taken of the highly visible corner on which the building will stand the very important corner <br />intersection of TIB and S. 144th Street. The applicant has addressed these issues by expanding the <br />glass treatment of the entry and enhancing the hardscape entry designs along the street/sidewalk <br />edge. Public art is proposed for the corner however there is no agreement on scale, function, <br />review and approval for an element that is an important condition in meeting the intent of the Design <br />Manual. <br />The scale of the building relates to the pedestrian and the scale of the building's elements and detail <br />relate to the building's overall form and massing. The expanses of glass on the east, south and <br />west facades will be a highlight of the building's design in the nighttime. Additional uplighting of the <br />walls are also proposed. Significant use of pedestrian lighting is used in the pedestrian areas on the <br />north and east sides of the building. <br />3. Landscape Design <br />The proposed private landscaping reinforces and enhances the public streetscape improvements by <br />providing a significant mass of planting. The landscape plan also acts as an integral part of the <br />overall site's design. The plan provides several landscape focal points through the use of size — the <br />specimen Oak outside the front entrance - or color — the colorful plants chosen for the children's <br />window and the street corner. The design softens the transition from streetscape to building; <br />however, the choice of trees along TIB does not reinforce the landscaping of the streetscape, which <br />has large Maples along the curb line and Northern Red Oaks along the back of sidewalk. <br />Streetscape trees are prohibited by the bus zone in front of the building. <br />The balance between improving the pedestrian environment with large masses of plantings and <br />engaging the pedestrians with views into the library are both important design goals that should be <br />modified in favor of visibility. The types of species specified and the mature size /heights of some of <br />the plants chosen for the west and south planting beds may obscure rather than allow the two way <br />visibility that is desirable. <br />A good variety of plants are proposed, some of which may not be drought tolerant, such as the <br />blueberries, and therefore require a high degree of maintenance. <br />Finally, the applicant has replicated Tukwila Village's use of Empire Ash adjacent in the parking stalls <br />along the north facade. The City's goal of greater tree canopy would be supported with the <br />substitution of a tree with a greater spread. <br />L13 -017 — Tukwila Library Page 1 19 <br />