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P20-0989, Objective Design Standards Planning Commission 6 of 7 Note that any other relevant objective standards included in the PMC (e.g., height and setback standards as specified in the underlying zoning district, parking requirements, permitted and conditionally permitted uses, water-efficient landscaping, signage, etc. would also continue to apply to residential and mixed-use development projects. Introduction The Introduction identifies that the purpose of the standards and guidelines is for residential development and mixed-use development that includes residential and references the vision statement from the Downtown Specific Plan. General development standards This section includes frontage improvements standards and site standards for downtown sites. Site design and planning standards This section identifies site circulation, building orientation, standards for: alleys, paseos, vehicular and bike parking, landscape, site lighting, and utility and service area location/design. Architectural features The Architectural Features section identifies standards for building massing, façade design and projections, roofs and parapets, active frontage design, building entries, historic buildings, materials and details, and building signage. “New” Standards Although many of the draft objective standards for the R-M, C-C, and M-U District sites have been incorporated from the other documents referenced above, there are some new standards included to augment and bolster the body of regulations in key areas. A number of these reflect similar standards included in the Draft Objective Standards for Housing Sites, because they reflect principles of good design in multi-family development more generally: • Vehicular and bike parking (Draft Standards 5.2 and 5.13): a standard to set maximum height of partially subgrade parking; and a standard to provide a pedestrian connection between front doors of ground floor businesses in mixed-use buildings and rear parking lots. • Landscape (Draft Standard B6.5): a standard to provide a landscape buffer for a required pedestrian path between a mixed-use development and rear parking. • Building massing (Draft Standards C1.1 , C1.3, and C1.6): a standard to require building massing breaks but modified compared to the Housing Sites ODS to account for the smaller lot size (and therefore smaller projects) downtown and on R-M, M-U, and C-C District sites. Another standard that is currently in the municipal code for R-M District sites would apply to multifamily residential projects in M-U and C-C Districts as well; this standard requires that a new structure proposed adjacent to an existing residential development set back portions of its massing taller than 15 feet such that these portions are further from adjacent residential development. Also, Draft Standard C1.6 would require façade articulation for sites along Main Street to allow for greater flexibility and encourage arcade sidewalks. • Roofs/parapets (Draft Standard C3.2): a standard to provide massing reduction through roof design between new and existing single-family development or a zone where single-family use is a permitted use. The roof design would be required to incorporate a hipped roof, occupiable roof dormers, small gables that extend building massing to the roof plane, and usable balconies recessed into the building massing.