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Preservation Task Force meetings that the Task Force had a strong interest in not only this house but in the preservation of other homes in the Downtown area, Ponderosa went back to the seller /landowner and changed their contract to allow the owner to retain the home and create a .228 -acre lot upon which that house will remain. She indicated that she is not sure if the representative for the property owner will be able to attend here tonight, but she thought it was safe to say that the property owner, upon close of escrow once Ponderosa obtained project approval, intents to take that cash flow and do some remedial work to the house to make it safe; and Ponderosa will then work with the owner on some marketing or outreach to see if they can find someone who would want to restore that house, either as a residence or perhaps approach the City subsequently with a land use change to some other kind of transitional use in that area, such as a professional office. Ms. Hardy stated that she does not know at this point what will happen to the house and emphasized that the house is going to remain under the ownership of the existing property owner. She confirmed that staff is correct that Ponderosa will not own that property and would not own the house; therefore, it is not part of Ponderosa's development application, and what remains is a proposal of 12 new lots and detached single - family homes, in addition to the retention of the existing house. Ms. Hardy then turned the floor over to Mark Rutherford, Project Architect, to briefly go over the architecture of the houses. Mark Rutherford, William Hezmalhalch Architects, Project Architect, stated that he has done a number of projects working with Ponderosa Homes, and typically in starting out with the projects, they look at the site. He noted that this is an infill site with the constraint of being perpendicular to Stanley Boulevard, and they had to look for the best layout as far as providing homes that would fit within the context of having a strong curb appeal that characterizes the surrounding Downtown Pleasanton. He indicated that their initial direction was to do some smaller two -story homes of 2,200 to 2,600 square feet with front porches on some of the homes, providing a variety within the neighborhood itself, even with only two elevation styles, three floor plans with one of the floor plans modified for lot 12, seven elevations and six color schemes and material schemes for the 12 homes. With respect to the design, Mr. Rutherford stated that they looked at other traditional styles of Pleasanton and went through the Downtown Historical Guidelines, settling on the craftsman style and the cottage with a variety of roof pitches to kind of distinguish and give them that eclectic mix within the neighborhood: lower pitch roofs for the craftsman and a higher pitch for the cottage, a variety of materials with lap siding for all of the craftsman homes, lap- siding on all four sides, and stucco with stone material on the cottage style. Mr. Rutherford noted that a lot of the Downtown neighborhoods in Pleasanton have rear garages, but because of the size of the lots and the constraints of the site, these homes are going to have garages that are up front. He stated that to mitigate that, they have PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 10, 2013 Page 11 of 21