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Consistency with General Plan The subject lot has a General Plan Land Use designation of Retail/Highway/Service Commercial Business and Professional Offices. Mixed-use development in the Downtown, where residences are located behind commercial uses, is allowed in this land use designation. Further, some policies in the General Plan Land Use Element encourage housing downtown including the following: Policy 9: Develop new housing in infill and peripheral areas which are adjacent to existing residential development, near transportation hubs, or local -serving commercial areas. The neighboring properties include a mixture of uses including residential and commercial (e.g., offices, hair salon, chiropractor, tailor, yoga, etc.) and adding an infill residential unit to a site with an existing office, complements the neighboring mixed uses. The General Plan also notes the maximum floor area ratio (FAR) is as specified in the Downtown Specific Plan, 300 percent. The project is consistent with the General Plan Land Use designation. Consistency with the Downtown Specific Plan The subject lot is within the Downtown Specific Plan area and has a land use designation of Downtown Commercial. DSP Policy LD -P.20 notes that ground -floor residential is permitted at this location if the following are met: • Street fronting commercial space is required, with a maximum building depth of 50 feet to ensure viable commercial uses- Project complies; • Re -development sites have no net loss of commercial square -footage- Project complies; • Corner lots maintain a commercial character on secondary frontages to the maximum extent feasible- Not applicable; • Residential at the rear of the site is designed to minimize visibility from the commercial street -front- Project complies; • The proposed residential is fully parked on-site- Project complies if in -lieu parking agreement is approved. Aside from Policy LD -P.20, the DSP includes further regulations relating to new development in the Downtown Commercial land use area including limiting new buildings to two -stories (with three -stories permitted on a case-by-case basis following specific criteria outlined in LDP -P.16). Additionally, since the project is within the DSP area, the Downtown Design Guidelines also apply to the subject property which provide direction on building location, height and mass, design, landscaping, etc. The project complies with the DSP and meets the Downtown Design Guidelines in terms of building location, height and mass, design, landscaping, and other requirements, as described further in the Planning Commission Agenda Report, Attachment 3. Page 5 of 9