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Ms. Moffett- Fehlberg displayed the site plan and pointed to the cottages, which are single story and are intended to be mixed and matched to combine both back -to -back and in a linear fashion. She then pointed to the two -story units on the garden side and on the Kottinger Place side along this edge; and the three -story component set back into the center of the site. She indicated that they worked very closely with the neighbors down in this area to provide view corridors so houses are not just lined -up across the back of that site, and preserving existing trees around the perimeter of the site to help buffer the neighborhood. With respect to the carports, Ms. Moffett- Fehlberg stated that they are on the outer edges of the parking areas as opposed to up against the buildings as they felt it was really important to see into that parking area for safety and security and not have the carports too close to the buildings. She added that it is not lined up exactly for every parking stall to avoid having one big long carport; they wanted to break it up so they can get some trees in there. Ms. Moffett- Fehlberg stated that the site plan is a balance between private and public outdoor space, leaving community open space areas between the homes, linking the community together in shared gardens, butterfly gardens, and gardens that have memory points so they can go from place to place and feel like they went someplace different within the community. She noted that each of the cottages in particular are designed to have a front porch which gives that layering of public to private realm as they go into their homes. She added that each of the homes in the multi -story buildings have their own balcony. Ms. Moffett - Fehlberg stated that the access through the site from Vineyard Avenue to Kottinger Drive is an in- and -out loop, and the Kottinger Place side has a through - connection. She indicated that they want to create a scenario where there was not cut - through traffic but there was a smooth connection through for easy delivery to a centralized point where the common facilities, the common spaces, the multi - purpose room, and MidPen Housing's offices are located, which would provide a sense of arrival and security, and then a turnaround that serves also as a plaza adjacent to the multi - purpose area on the Gardens side. With respect to the crossing between the two sites, she stated that it was very important that this have a feel of one integrated community so people feel like this is their neighborhood, as opposed to two separate communities. She indicated that they studied this connection across Kottinger Drive and felt that it was the safest and most conducive to everyone crossing, whether it be residents or neighbors within the community, to create a scenario where the vehicular access is split away from each other with one centralized pedestrian crossing in the center, with the paved, accented, raised table top and the flashing signal similar to the hand - activated pedestrian signals in the Downtown at the Farmer's Market, some traffic calming by pulling the curb out to create a little slow /heads -up location along the street, to give not only the residents but the community at large the ability to cross in a safe manner. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 12, 2014 Page 10 of 24