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1537 Hays Street; PLN2005-00141 2 September 5, 2006 exterior wall of the Garden Terrace building after construction of the proposed development. He agreed to build trellis features over the rear of the buildings facing Garden Terrace to minimize views of the rear yards and to plant trees in the yards of those three units. Recommendation: The Planning Commission and staff recommend that the City Council approve the following: 1. An Ordinance to rezone the property from RMl800 Residential Multi-Family District to RM2500(PD) Residential Multi-Family, Planned Development Overlay District. 2. The Plarmed Development to construct a six-unit detached single-family residential development subject to the recommended findings and revised recommended conditions of approval, by motion. 3. The Vesting Tentative Map, Tract 7810 to subdivide the subject property thereby creating a total of six parcels, with a reciprocal access easement as the common driveway subject to recommended findings and conditions of approval by adopting the attached Resolution. BACKGROUND · The subject property is developed with a one-story single-family home circa 1925, with approximately 1,102 square feet and a detached garage. This home is not on the City's list of historic properties. This site encompasses 15,000 square feet (0.34 acre), measuring 100 feet wide, fronting Hays Street, and 150 feet deep. Adjacent to the north is a single-family home and two duplexes; to the south is the five-story, 25-unit Garden Terrace condominium building built in 1965; to the southeast is a five-story, 28-unit condominium building built in 1976; and to the west are single-family homes. . In January 2006, the Planning Commission conducted a work session to review a proposal to develop the underutilized property with a six-unit detached single-family residential project. The Commission made favorable comments on the site plarming and expressed a consensus that six units was an acceptable density for the project site. The Commission felt that the detached, six-unit design would be an appropriate transition between the smaller, low-density housing adjacent to the north of the site and the larger, higher-density condominium (Garden Terrace) adjacent to the south. · At the June 8, 2006, Plarming Commission public hearing, the proposed plans and the vesting tentative map went to the Commission for a formal hearing. At that meeting the Commission expressed concern about the front elevations of the project, the actual design of the entry arbor, and the on-site landscaping. The Commission continued the matter to its next regularly scheduled meeting of June 22, 2006. At that meeting the Commission found that the applicant had addressed its concerns with the enhanced front elevations facing Hays Street which included full front porches, and the substantial (heavy) design of the wood entry arbor. In addition, the landscape plan included trees along the southerly edge of the site to buffer and soften the view of the new project from the Garden Terrace condominium.