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<br />Historic Preservation Commission <br /> <br />February 23, 2004 Page 9 <br /> <br />STARRETT: My, and I am speaking personally, my greatest concern is that <br />railroad crossing sign and whether or not even TxDot would want it to be there. <br />And I think that is something that needs to be thought about. <br /> <br />SUAREZ: ok <br /> <br />WOMAN: It would improve the effect if it weren't there because right now you <br />have three elements where you really need one good sign. <br /> <br />SUAREZ: Alright <br /> <br />ANOTHER WOMAN: What kind of landscaping, I know you had planned <br />landscaping all in the area. I-low will that tic in? <br /> <br />SUAREZ: Well we did have some landscape plans drawn and I don't know if that <br />has been submitted to you all yet or not but there was a parking lot design that had <br />been submitted to you and the landscaping plans are on hold until the parking lot <br />is constructed. So that you know that the big trucks and everything And I <br />cannot tell you the status at all on the parking lot. <br /> <br />STARRETT: This body had already considered and passed off on the landscaping <br />on the parking lot. <br /> <br />SUAREZ: And as you can see the parking lot is so needed because in one of the <br />photos T have submitted to you, you can sce that trucks are continuing to park <br />there. On that part. I am sorry I am obviously very unprepared with this but this <br />is the starting point and we know that. Are there any suggestions other than it is <br />too cluttered that we can perhaps be a little more specific with our designer. <br /> <br />DENNEY: T would make one comment about it and something that you might <br />incorporate with it. You have on the Depot you have a white kind of baseboard, <br />for lack of a better term, of concrete. Then you have a little bit of brick, then you <br />have a bulk course of white concrete. If you took those elements and somehow <br />integrated that in to your design of that sign that is a very easy way to really tic it <br />in with the Depot with very little expense to pick up some of that detailing of that <br />base for lack of a better term. <br /> <br />SUAREZ: ok and maybe brick. <br /> <br />DENNEY: yeh possibly. <br /> <br />SUAREZ: Keeping it with brick. Because one could argue that the railroad trellis <br />on this side or the bed on this side could emulate that with the strip at the bottom <br />