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PD-97-10; A-98-4; and Vesting Tentative Map Tract 7001 PD-97-10 June 8, 1998 Page 3 of 5 This proposal will consist of 25 two story townhouse units. They will all be three bedrooms and two baths with a floor area of 1290 square feet. All of the units will have private back yards with a depth varying from 15 to 24 feet. The front yard setback varies from 18 to 20 feet. A two car garage is an integral part of each unit. The minimum driveway approach is 18 feet in depth which will provide for two guest or additional resident parking spaces in front of the garage door. A sectional roll -up garage door will facilitate use of the driveway for parking. The new one-way street extending from San Leandro Boulevard to Thornton Street allows 25 units to be developed on this site without any of the units having driveways on San Leandro Boulevard. Acquiring the additional property at 1762 and 1770 San Leandro Boulevard allowed this design compromise. The one-way street provides access to 14 of the units and results in increased privacy for the units fronting in this new street. Units 1 through 4 back up to San Leandro Boulevard and unit 5 has a side yard along that street. Since San Leandro Boulevard is a major arterial, the architect has designed the project to minimize the impact of that street on this proposal. An 8 foot high masonry wall, very similar to the wall at Marina Vista along Wicks Boulevard, will be constructed along the San Leandro Boulevard frontage of the property. The wall will provide maximum privacy for the back yards of the 4 units that back up to that street. It will also help mitigate noise from San Leandro Boulevard and the railroad. There will be a narrow band of landscaping between the wall and the inside edge of the sidewalk to soften the appearance of the wall from San Leandro Boulevard. The remaining fencing in the backyards of the units and sideyards along the new street and Carpentier Street frontages will be a six foot high solid wood fence. The exterior walls of the units will be stucco with a composition shingle mansard roof on the front and sides of the unit and a flat roof in the rear. Bay windows will be an interesting design element on the front and side elevations and add to the interior of the unit. There is an offset in some of the units to break up the continuous line of facades along the street frontage. Six color schemes have been submitted. They range in the white, beige and green tones for the building walls and trim and darker brown and gray for the roof. The color scheme compares with the colors used in other new single-family housing developments in the city. Vesting Tentative Map Tract 7001 Each of the townhouse units will be located on an individual lot and there will be no common area or lot in the project. The tentative map provides for a 25 lot subdivision. There is an attached Engineer's Report and recommended conditions for the Tract Map. t! 3