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As proposed, the project complies with the development standards prescribed by the PMC. Scope of Design Review— Criteria Chapter 18.20 (Design Review) of the PMC indicates that in order to preserve and enhance the City's aesthetic values and to ensure the preservation of the public health, safety, and general welfare, additions to single-family residences greater than 10 feet in height are subject to the ADR process. Staff notes that even though an addition may comply with the development standards of the applicable zoning district, through the design review process, the PMC allows the reviewing body to approve conditions that may be more restrictive than the normal PMC standards to ensure that the public health, safety, or general welfare is preserved. Per the Municipal Code, the reviewing body, in considering Design Review applications, is limited to focusing on the physical/design elements (and not the operational elements or expected activities within a structure) of a project. As outlined in the Design Review chapter, the reviewing body's scope of review of project plans shall include the following criteria: 1. Preservation of the natural beauty of the city and the project site's relationship to it; 2. Appropriate relationship of the proposed building to its site, including transition with streetscape, public views of the buildings, and scale of buildings within its site and adjoining buildings; 3. Appropriate relationship of the proposed building and its site to adjoining areas, including compatibility of architectural styles, harmony in adjoining buildings, attractive landscape transitions, and consistency with neighborhood character; 4. Preservation of views enjoyed by residents, workers within the city, and passersby through the community; 5. Landscaping designed to enhance architectural features, strengthen vistas, provide shade, and conform to established streetscape; 6. Relationship of exterior lighting to its surroundings and to the building and adjoining landscape; 7. Architectural style, as a function of its quality of design and relationship to its surroundings; the relationship of building components to one another/the building's colors and materials; and the design attention given to mechanical equipment or other utility hardware on roof, ground or buildings; 8. Integration of signs as part of the architectural concept; and 9. Architectural concept of miscellaneous structures, street furniture, public art in relationship to the site and landscape. (Ord. 1612 § 2, 1993; Ord. 1591 § 2, 1993) Page 9 of 11