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Resolution No. 2008-33 <br />Page Two <br />2. The plan is consistent with the City's General Plan. <br />The site's "Public and Institutional/Medium Density Residential" General <br />Plan Land Use Designation allows either public school or medium density <br />residential senior housing land uses. The Medium Density Residential <br />General Plan Land Use Designation allows for two to eight dwelling units <br />per acre (DUA) and a midpoint density of five DUA. This project, as <br />proposed, calculates to 4.8 DUA. The proposed medium density <br />residential senior housing development is consistent with the General Plan <br />land use designation for the site. The proposed project would further <br />several General Plan Programs and Policies encouraging new housing to <br />be developed in infill and peripheral areas that are adjacent to existing <br />residential development and for the City to attain a variety of housing <br />sizes, types, densities, designs, and prices which meet the existing and <br />projected needs of all economic segments of the community. The project <br />would also meet a General Plan Housing Element policy to provide for the <br />special -housing needs of large families, the elderly, the disabled, the <br />homeless, and families with single -parent heads of households. Thus, the <br />proposed development plan is consistent with the City's General Plan, and <br />believes that this finding can be made. <br />3. The proposed development plan is compatible with previously <br />developed properties located in the vicinity and the natural, <br />topographic features of the site. <br />Surrounding properties include single-family homes, the City's Operation <br />Service Center, a Zone 7 lake, and undeveloped former quarry property. <br />As conditioned, the proposed residential lots and homes would be <br />compatible with the surrounding uses. The proposed house locations, <br />house designs, and site development standards have been designed/ <br />created to minimize impacts on neighboring properties, including mass <br />and visual impacts as viewed from the adjacent properties and streets. <br />The subject property generally has flat terrain. Grading of the lots has <br />been limited to the creation of the pads for the future homes and to <br />achieve the proper functioning of utilities. Therefore, the PUD <br />development plan is compatible with the previously developed properties <br />and the natural, topographic features of the site, and this finding can be <br />made. <br />4. Grading takes into account environmental characteristics and is <br />designed in keeping with the best engineering practices to avoid <br />erosion, slides, or flooding to have as minimal an effect upon the <br />environment as possible. <br />As described above, the site is flat with minimum changes in grades <br />proposed. The steeply sloped old quarry pit located to the north of the site <br />