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Excerpts/rom the Planning Commission Meeting Minutes Agenda No. 06-11 June 8, 2006 Page 4 0/10 the front entry to the second floor. He said he could eliminate the front door facing the interior courtyard and dress up the porch facing Hays Street. He noted that the current zoning would allow up to eight units with a fifty-foot height and six-foot setbacks. He noted that the average setback for the proposed buildings is 14 feet, and there is a 10 foot setback between the buildings and the property line shared with Garden Terrace. He said the roof peak is less than 35 feet in height with 29 feet to the gutter plate line. Architect Al Burrell, Dahlin Group ArChitects, said that Plarmer Penaranda had done a good job of explaining the product. He said there was an effort to limit the size of the porch roof so that the roof would not block light to the window adjacent to the porch. He said the architects had also made an effort to limit the massing of the building while still responding to the commissioners' request for a doorway facing the street. He also noted that the arbor, which appears to be very two-dimensional in the elevation drawings, is actually a strong feature with a depth of about six feet that provides a three-dimensional element to the front of the project. Architect Burrell provided a massing study, including a series of PowerPoint slides that depicts the basic shape and positioning of the proposed dwellings in comparison to both the largest building permitted under current zoning, and, the shape of existing adjacent buildings. He said his understanding is that the more massive five-story, eight-unit building would be permitted under existing zoning with an architectural review by the Community Services staff. Secretary Pollart said a site plan review would be required, which might be done by the Zoning Enforcement Officer unless the ZEO bumped the review up to the Site Development Subcommittee or the PI arming Commission. Applicant Langon noted that current zoning allowed a massive building, similar in size to Garden Terrace. He said the proposed project is much smaller and preserves some filtered views for Garden Terrace residents since the buildings are substantially lower than the maximum height allowed. He noted that there are nine feet between the units, and that privacy issues were being addressed by limiting the number of windows facing Garden Terrace. He said he believed the project will provide a nice transition from the massing of Garden Terrace to the single-family homes that are typical of the rest of the neighborhood. Applicant Langon said there had been community meetings in November and that, although a few neighbors showed up, none of the residents of Garden Terrace were in attendance. Commissioner Wohltmann asked the applicant if he could provide an overlay of the elevation of his project on the northern wall of Garden Terrace so that commissioners could get a sense of what Garden Terrace residents would see when they looked out their north-facing windows. Applicant Langon said he did not have such an overlay. He said the second and third floor Garden Terrace units would be looking into the second and third-floor windows of the proposed project.