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• Street-Fronting Residential Entries: Permitted on Main Street, but should be designed to minimize their prominence, as outlined in the recommendation. • On-Site Ground Floor Parking for Residential Uses: Permitted in all districts, provided that it does not include habitable space. • Right-to-do-Business Ordinance: Use other methods (i.e. project conditions of approval) to address potential conflicts between downtown residential and commercial uses. Development Standards. The City Council provided the following direction with respect to development standards within various land use districts: • Mixed Use-Downtown: Height: 46-foot maximum height, and a maximum of 3 stories; Floor Area Ratio: 300 percent. • Mixed Use-Transitional: Height: 36-foot maximum with a maximum of 2 stories; Floor Area Ratio: 125 percent. • Downtown Commercial: Height: 40-foot maximum; Floor Area Ratio: 300 percent, consistent with the existing development standards. • Residential Height Limits: 30 feet maximum, with the ability to consider additional height through a Planned Unit Development (PUD). Private Property Owner Initiated Requests. The City Council also considered whether and how requests for changes in land use designation made by two individual property owners (4212 First Street (Shell Station property), and 475/493 St. John Street (Barone's property)) should be incorporated into the DSP update process. After discussion, on a 2-3 vote the City Council rejected a motion to include the properties among land use map changes to be adopted with the Specific Plan. Following the vote, Councilmember Narum, who was among the three Councilmembers voting in the majority, requested the opportunity to reconsider her vote at the next City Council meeting. Discussion of this item is therefore provided below. DISCUSSION Property Owner-Initiated Land Use Requests During the Council's April 16 discussion, staff was questioned about how the two properties (4212 First Street and 475/493 St. John Street) would be re-designated in the Specific Plan, the relationship of that action to other actions, such as rezoning, and to required CEQA review, and the related question of density assumptions for the two sites. Specific Plan Amendment If the Council were to support inclusion of the requested land use changes in the DSP, staff recommended doing so by including an annotation or other map notation for each property on the DSP Land Use Diagram (Figure 4-2) to indicate the possibility of being allowed to proceed with a residential-only project, in addition to the commercial and mixed-use options available in the current DSP. The notation and a related policy would Page 3 of 5