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Pedestrian Access. A pedestrian pathway would link the apartment buildings with the passive and active recreational uses on the site. Pedestrian access to the apartment units would be from internal corridors coming from common entries and/or individual garages. Most of the ground floor units would also have direct porch entrances. Apartment Building Design. The apartment buildings present a Spanish influenced architectural style. The materials that are proposed include stucco exterior finish, stone veneer, wood-like trim for the windows, tile roof, wrought iron patio and balcony railings, and awnings. Building walls would pop-in or-out to provide variation in the wall plane and break up the building mass. The roofs of the buildings have a 4:12 pitch with roof wells to locate HVACs. The roof material is concrete tile with a variegated color pattern (adobe blend). Building walls vary in materials (stucco, brick veneer, and simulated stone trim) and colors to provide variety and interest. To break the roof volume on Building C and Building D, dormer elements have been added to the second floor roof facing the arroyo (south). To ensure the privacy of the residents across the arroyo, these dormers do not have windows, but instead contain architectural vents. Parking. A total of 304 resident and guest parking spaces would be provided, comprised of 130 spaces in the apartment building garages, 124 carport spaces, and 50 surface parking spaces including 12 compact parking spaces. At least one covered space would be provided for, and assigned to, each apartment unit. Tree Removal. A total of 103 existing trees were surveyed on the subject property; among them, 27 are heritage-sized trees as defined by the Municipal Code. The heritage-sized trees consist of 13 evergreen ash trees, six red ironbark trees, seven callery pear trees, and one cork oak. As proposed, all heritage-sized trees, except for two, would be preserved. Overall, the proposed development would remove 54 existing trees. Preliminary landscape plans have been provided for the proposed development. Affordable Housing Agreement A total of 27 (15% of total project units) will be rent restricted affordable units to households with incomes at or less than 100% or the Area Median Income (AMI). The rent restricted affordable units include the unit mix on the following page. Page 6 of 11