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Downtown Design Guidelines Amendments To be consistent with the Specific Plan, the Guidelines governing residential design were amended to address new building design, mass and bulk, and garage location. Other amendments were made to discourage the use of metal roofs (metal shingles that resemble shake or tile with a dull finish may be approved) and to discourage the replacement of wooden windows (replacement would be allowed if the replacement windows match the original windows regarding operation, profile, height, width, and glazing pattern). Please see Attachment 3 for all of the recommended changes. Municipal Code Amendments • Story Poles: Story poles (examples shown below) are not currently addressed by the Municipal Code. The Task Force felt that story poles are a useful tool to ensure the surrounding neighbors are aware of what a proposed home or addition would look like in terms of its height and mass before a decision is made by the City. A similar sentiment was also stated by Councilmember Brown at the Council check-in. The draft amendment would allow the City to require an applicant to install story poles for a new single-family home or two-story addition to a single-family home. vFUi ahl llryIq' i/dpi l/� �%rlpq i , , iii l ,^4 Zla'r i • Demolition by Neglect: An existing Municipal Code section only addresses demolition by neglect for non-single-family homes in the Downtown Revitalization District, which is a smaller area than the Downtown Specific Plan Area. The draft amendment would apply to all structures within the Downtown Specific Plan Area, including single-family homes. General Plan Amendments The General Plan currently states in two locations that the City will adopt a historic preservation ordinance. Based on the City Council's prior direction that it did not wish to create a historic preservation ordinance, but instead wanted the existing Downtown historic preservation policies, guidelines, and processes be re-evaluated, these two sections of the General Plan would be deleted. Historic Context Statement The draft Pleasanton Downtown Historic Context Statement prepared for the Task Force in 2012 by Architectural Resources Group, Inc. (Exhibit G of Attachment 9) identifies primary themes in the history of Pleasanton and connects those themes to the built environment by identifying property types associated with each theme. It provides a common resource document for future determinations of eligibility for listing on the California Register. Page 5 of 11