Planning 2017-03-02 Item 4 - Inspirus Credit Union - Attachment E - Applicant Response to Design Review Criteria

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The existing Gilliam Creek will be preserved and will have its 40' buffer zone restored and enhanced. The design massing is a result of this buffer zone and the creek now becomes an attractive landscape focal point for the site. b. Grades of walks, parking spaces, terraces and other paved areas should promote safety and provide an inviting and stable appearance. The grades of all paved areas on site will promote safety and be inviting and safe. The new pedestrian connection from the south side of the building to Southcenter Blvd. and the addition and relocation of accessible parking stalls make the site much easier to access. c. Landscape treatment should enhance architectural features, strengthen vistas and important axis, and provide shade. The landscaping is designed to create a low impact path and seating area at the base of the new addition with complementary materials that fade into a more natural landscape treatment with native shrubs, trees, and grasses. d. In locations where plants will be susceptible to injury by pedestrian or motor traffic, mitigating steps should be taken. A vast majority of the new plantings will not be in high pedestrian and motor traffic areas and those that are will be species that can hold up well to some pedestrian impacts on the landscape areas of the site. e. Where building sites limit planting, the placement of trees or shrubs in paved areas is encouraged. The parking area is upgraded to meet with the current Tukwila Municipal Codes and will be filled by landscaping. f. Screening of service yards and other places, which tend to be unsightly, should be accomplished by the use of walls, fencing, planting or combinations of these. Screening should be effective in winter and summer. There will be attractive metal screening to replace the existing trash enclosure screen, which is in disrepair, to better support the protection of the garbage and recycling containers on site. g. In areas where general planting will not prosper, other materials such as fences, walls, and paving of wood, brick, stone or gravel may be used. The landscaping design is utilizing mostly native plantings or species of plants that are known to thrive in this region and in similar kinds of site placement. h. Exterior lighting, when used, should enhance the building design and the adjoining landscape. Lighting standards and fixtures should be of a design and size compatible with the building and adjacent area. Lighting should be shielded, and restrained in design. Excessive brightness and brilliant colors should be avoided. IFti.,O.SC3 4 I IMA I P1 AR(4 PI1 UP, I[IL, P" WOM JA' L'-'(Y Rd VI1'S COM '411 i IW,?] AV` l,Alh' ;i,+ "rri l vt� 9B104 f 20 32 Y 4ROO i'r 20C, ATTACHMENT E 49