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be around 30 feet tall. I notice the requirements say 20 -foot setback but we have a lot of places where they are not at 20 feet. I'm more concerned with the rear for people who live behind this project. So instead of a 30 -foot rear setback we're somewhere between 10 -24 feet. Beaudin: The rear setback is somewhere between 20 -24 feet. Commissioner O'Connor: 20 -24 feet is for Plan 2. This other one says 10 -14 feet. Amos: There's a bonus option on the back for them to do a small addition. I believe it's called a California room. Lee: It's a covered porch in a backyard. It's a very popular feature we're adding to new homes these days. It is a single -story covered structure. Instead of a homeowner putting a pergola or trellis in the back, we would include it as part of the design feature of the house. Commissioner O'Connor: Is it equivalent to a pergola? Lee: Yes, the square footage is like a patio area that has a roof on it but no walls. Commissioner Nagler: What's the roof height relative to the roof height of the home? Lee: It would be a one -story between 12 and 15 feet. Commissioner O'Connor: Okay, so it's open. It says Plan 2; 20 -24 feet. Why do we have this 4 foot...? Lee: There's one part of the site that jogs 4 feet. Commissioner O'Connor: So we're talking about 20 -foot setbacks where 30 feet is the norm? I don't know if neighbors would be okay if we did a taller fence or if there's an option to give them more privacy and sound... Lee: You could look at trees in the backyard of those units to provide vertical screening for the residents behind them because a fence only goes up so high, but if you put the trees and different vegetation in, it has an opportunity to grow higher to provide the privacy for the existing residents, but still allow the 20 -foot setback. As part of the application coming in, we would provide a landscape plan, and identify what species of trees could grow in the backyard, and then maybe the size of a planter box we put in there. Commissioner O'Connor: This is a two -story structure so you can always look out your window and look at somebody else's backyard if they are a single -story home or even if they are a two -story. I was thinking more of sound attenuation. Usually landscaping does not do much for sound. A lot of people think it does but it really doesn't. Lee: If sound is the consideration, I think one option is the block wall. That helps out. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 35 of 46