LU 19-0005: A request for Development and Conditional Use Permits and Design and Minor Variances to construct a new City Hall and associated parking.

The applicant is requesting the following:

• A Development Review Permit to construct a new 59,000 sq. ft. City Hall in the Downtown Redevelopment Design District (DRD);
• A Conditional Use Permit to construct an ancillary parking lot in the PF zone;
• Numerous design variances to the DRD Standards (please see below);
• A minor variance to the max. 8-ft. retaining wall height to allow a walls ranging from 8 to 16 feet with modified landscaping; and,
• The removal of 52 trees.

The requested design variances are as follows:

• Approval for simple massing rather than the required complex massing [LOC 50.05.004.5.a];
• Approval of a primary flat roof rather than a pitched roof [LOC 50.05.004.5.c], with an increase to 41-foot height limitation for flat roofs to [LOC 50.05.004.5.e];
• Approval to design the City Hall in the NW Regional style, rather than one of the three Lake Oswego styles [LOC 50.05.004.6.a];
• Approval for storefront appearance exceptions to 3rd Street elevation, specifically to not provide the 80% storefront fenestration [LOC 50.05.004.6.b] or pedestrian awnings [LOC 50.05.004.6.g];
• Approval to allow board-form concrete as ground floor cladding material instead of masonry on the 3rd Street and south elevations [LOC 50.05.004.6.c.i];
• Approval for an exception to allow landscape walls supporting the surface parking lot to be board-form concrete instead faced in natural stone [LOC 50.05.004.8.i].