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Special Design Standards and Guidelines Development Standard, page 55 1. No structure (not including light fixtures) shall be located within 50 feet of the western property line - The carports would be located eight feet from the western property line. Comments: The applicant could remove carport parking along the western property line and still conform to the requirement of providing one covered parking space per residential unit. The applicant prefers to keep the carports as the carports have been considered as a amenity to the apartment tenants. The Planning Commission indicated that they would support this exception if the adjoining property owner to the west, Chamberlin Associates, supported the carport location. One commissioner asked about relocating some of the carport elsewhere on the project site so as to break up the carport presence along the westerly property line. Chamberlin and Associates and the applicant have reached a compromise on this item. It is agreed between them to have two small carports located along the westerly property line. The parties have also agreed that the design of the carports will match the design of the building. Staff supports this revision, provided that the carport dimensions and designs be reviewed and approved by the Director of Community Development. Development Standards, page 13, requires a distinct hierarchy of circulation including public streets, internal streets, alleys, etc. Section A1.b states that alleys should not be used for primary circulation. 2. The existing western entrance would serve as one of the two entrances to the proposed development. It should, like the eastern entrance, be designed as an internal street. Sheet A1.2 shows it is designed as an alley. Comments: The majority of the Commission supported using an alley design instead of an interior street design for the second westerly access road for the project. Staff found the alley is designed to facilitate internal circulation and allows more land area as open space; thus it is supportable. Site Plan An existing 30-foot wide easement for the purposes of providing reciprocal access, common driveway, storm drain, and public service between the subject site and the adjoining site the east lies between these properties. The 30-foot multi-purpose easement would remain. The proposed project complies with the minimum building-to-building separation requirements and the minimum setbacks (except in the area noted above). The parking has been positioned to minimize its visibility as much as possible from West Las Positas Boulevard and the adjacent properties. For the convenience of the residents who have pets, a dog wash area is proposed on the east side of Building D near the trash enclosures. In response to comments from the residents to the south across the arroyo that noise from dog barking during wash could be disturbing, the applicant has agreed to relocate the dog wash away from the southern portion of the site to PUD-103/Summerhill Apartment Communities Planning Commission Page 15 of 34