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Item 3—Recommendation on Adoption of Downtown Specific Plan and Related Amendments property containing the existing Barone's restaurant, and not to the property containing the existing single family residence. Policy Topic 5: Development Standards The DSP process has included extensive discussion about appropriate development standards within the downtown, particularly for the new Mixed Use-Transitional and Mixed Use-Downtown districts. At the February Task Force meeting, the Task Force supported relaxation of the previously proposed development standards in the Mixed Use- Downtown and Mixed Use- Transitional districts, including: • In the Mixed Use- Downtown district, increasing the proposed height limit from 40-feet to 46-feet, and maximum FAR from 150-percent to 300-percent. • In the Mixed Use- Transitional district, increasing the proposed height limit from 36-feet to 40-feet and increasing the maximum FAR from 125-percent to 300- percent • Amending the language from Policy LD-P.46, to generally require residential height limits to be limited to 30-feet, but not precluding heights in excess of this limit through consideration of a PUD. April 16/May 8 City Council Direction The City Council directed the following development standards be applied: Proposed Specific Plan Maximum Height Maximum FAR Land Use District Downtown Commercial 40-feet, maximum of three 300-percent stories* Mixed Use- Downtown 46-feet, maximum of three 300-percent stories Mixed Use- Transitional 36-feet, maximum of two 125-percent stories Residential Districts 30-feet, maximum of two Not identified in Specific stories, with the ability to Plan' consider additional height through a Planned Unit Development (PUD) * See "Additional Recommendation" discussion below. Additional Recommendation For clarity, staff recommends the November 2019 draft be revised with respect to number of allowable stories in the Downtown Commercial district. The City Council's direction was to maintain the existing development standards for the Downtown Commercial district. Policy 1 in the Land Use Chapter of the existing Specific Plan states that "new or remodeled buildings within the Downtown Commercial area should be limited to two stories, except that three-story buildings may be allowed on a case-by- 1 Residential Zoning district maximum FARs in the Pleasanton Municipal Code range from 25-50 percent Prepared for the May 28,2019 Downtown Specific Plan Update Task Force Meeting Page 5 of 11 ject, subject to approval of a PUD rezoning/PUD Plan. A workshop will be required prior to a formal application. • 475/493 St. John Street: Retain the existing Downtown Commercial land use designation, with a map annotation to note potential for a future Mixed Use- Transitional designation to be applied to the property, subject to approval of a PUD rezoning/PUD Plan. The map annotation will only be applied to the Prepared for the May 28,2019 Downtown Specific Plan Update Task Force Meeting Page 4 of 11 Force Meeting Page 2 of 11