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Issue Changes to Standards and Guidelines Do not consider paseos as open space. Staff recommends that the City's existing Usable Open Space requirements be followed (PMC 18.84.170). Under these requirements, if the paseo includes a minimum area of at least 300 s.f., and has no dimension less than 15 feet, and is planted or paved, it would count as open space. In the absence of other standards or guidelines these requirements would apply to all multifamily projects; increasing the requirements could have an impact on project feasibility. Require Bay Friendly landscaping and A new development standard, A9.1 has been added to water conserving irrigation methods. require water efficient landscaping consistent with State law and Bay Friendly Basics which were adopted by the City Council in June 2012. Concern that private open space area can This is consistent with the City's existing Usable Open be counted towards group open space at Space Requirements in the Municipal Code and staff does a rate of 1 s.f. of private open space not recommend a change to that. equaling 2 s.f. of group open space. PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION Attachment 1 dated August 21, 2012, includes the changes detailed above, and also includes amendments accepted by the Planning Commission, as well as the recommendation of Planning Commission for some additional changes. These include the following: Issue Changes to Standards and Guidelines Per letter of May 10, 2012, (included in "infeasible and/or" is deleted from last sentence under Attachment 6), the representative for the Purpose on p. 4. Text is added to Vision Statement after CarrAmerica/California Center site the third paragraph. requested that it be recognized that all the sites are different in their configuration, etc, and therefore exceptions to the Standards and Guidelines should be allowed based on unique circumstances and conditions. Additionally, delete "infeasible" in Purpose as this is an inappropriate standard for providing an exception to a guideline. Clarify that other regulations and A sentence has been added to Section D. Other Guidelines guidelines in addition to the draft proposal and Regulations Applying to Development on p. 7. may pertain to the future residential development of the sites. In an e-mail of July 9, 2012, (included in Text was added to Appendix B, p. 59 to address these Attachment 6) a property owner next to issues. the CM Capital property (Site 9) requested a larger setback area with no structures and stepping back of upper Page 5 of 7