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also increased the number of parking spaces designated for Gardens' residents from 13 stalls to 22 stalls which includes 6 spaces limited to evening and weekend use only. Additional modifications were made as compared to the Planning Commission approval related to bio- retention areas and landscaping in between sidewalks and private streets on two of the streets within the site. Staff believes these are positive changes that meet the intent of the Commission's recommendation. There are now 25 homes, 19 in the western portion and 6 in the eastern portion of the site. Lot B is the recreational area which is 11,000 square feet. He then presented a magnified plan of the recreational amenity area showing access from private street B and also from public access from a gate adjacent to the Iron Horse Trail. Regarding architecture, the applicant team proposes three different two-story residence plans, a Craftsman plan, a Cottage plan and a Spanish plan and he displayed the illustrations which are the same models used in Ponderosa Homes' Ivy Lane project on Stanley. Mr. Weinstein stated the additional units are not needed to achieve the City's RHNA obligations which have already been met. The rezoning would increase the City's inventory of land zoned for market rate housing. Based on comments received over the last couple of weeks, the community has expressed concerns that the project is diminishing the City's inventory of land designated in the General Plan for community facilities and other public and institutional uses. He said there is quite a bit of land designated for these uses in the City; however, much of the land is owned by the school district and occupied by public schools. Staff focused on lands that were not occupied by public schools and that could be developable in the future and 8 sites were found comprising of 64 acres, meaning that the GPA on the project site would change 4.23 acres which is just over 6% of the City's current inventory of developable public and institutionally zoned land. Mr. Weinstein then presented a slide of conditionally permitted uses which is PUD, public and institutional, stating everything is essentially conditionally permitted and he pointed out that the range of uses conditionally permitted includes everything from churches to agricultural experiment facilities to hospitals and schools. Prior to getting into impact analysis, Mayor Thorne suggested taking questions of the Council. He referred to the referendum and a comment heard from opponents is that the City is getting close to what was referended by taking away the school and church site. Mr. Weinstein responded there was quite a bit of development proposed as part of the earlier project which he again described than what was later approved in 1997 and in response by Mayor Thorne, Mr. Weinstein confirmed that this project could be referended. Mayor Thorne referred to the City's RHNA compliance, but said the City has a growth management plan that allows the City to comply with the spirit of RHNA which has 235 units per year over an 8 year period. Theoretically, given 25 homes are proposed, the Council could indicate it wants to only put it on land that is being rezoned which is 72 acres which already complies with RHNA. City Manager Fialho said the City's growth management is RHNA divided by 8 which equals 25 units per year. If the Council grants allocations for this development, 25 units would be taken away from the growth management over an 8 year period. He confirmed that under the new growth management policy this year the City has granted 8 units. Vice-Mayor Brown stated Mr. Weinstein referred to the blue pie of public and institutional land. She said of the 60 acres which remain, she assumes that part of those include the 6 acres that will be the Montessori school in this sale. She asked if within those 60 acres staff was referring to the other City Council Minutes Page 5 of 28 October 6, 2015