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P20-0989, Objective Design Standards Planning Commission 4 of 7 notification to neighbors within an approximately 1,000-foot radius of the project site and on-site project notification in accordance with the City’s adopted policy; - Identification of submittal requirements (and until a checklist is developed, deference submittal requirements defined in the PMC); - Summarization of the appeal and “call-up” process; - Indication that modifications to an approved project would be determined to either be minor or major and procedures for each; and - Language regarding expiration of the approval.; • Clarification that permitted and conditionally permitted uses for: (1) 6th Cycle Housing Sites 18 (Valley Plaza) and Site 2 (Stoneridge Shopping Center) are those that are specified by their underlying zoning within mixed use projects on these sites; and (2) the uses for the designated 5th Cycle sites (carryover sites) are those identified in the appendix; • Modification to affordability requirements to indicate inclusionary units must be either Very Low-Income or Low-Income units, and addition of language to align rent maximums with Area Median Income (AMI); • Modification to site development standards to reflect: - A project with more than five and up to seven du/ac would have standards that correspond to the R-1-6,500 zoning district (the December 2022 ODS included this range up to eight du/ac); - Development standards for projects with density ranges greater than seven and up to 14 du/ac and projects with density ranges greater than 14 du/ac and up to 29 du/ac (these had not yet been drafted in the December 2022 ODS); and - Lot coverage and open space standards, tiered based on whether the site is less than three acres, or three acres or more.; • Open space requirements specific to the Stoneridge Shopping Center Housing Site; • Clarification that alleys are allowed in both single family and multifamily development; • Requirement that each neighborhood include a minimum of one connection between internal streets; • Clarification that utility rooms are prohibited on building ends facing streets and active open spaces (where the prior standard prohibited them within approximately 30 feet of building corners, irrespective of surroundings); • Addition of design standards for arterial streets and collector streets , modification to standards for internal streets; • Addition of standard for street lighting (where the standards in the December 2022 version indicated only on-site lighting standards); • Requirement that “court-style” single-family and alley-accessed townhomes to be arranged to that streets are fronted by homes and the home entries (not rear yards), and that courts have homes with entries on both sides of the access drive; • Modification to the group open space requirements such that project sizes are divided into five groups (where there previously was four) with the new grouping for projects with 41-60 units; • The minimum 50-percent of tree species required to be low water use (versus native trees) was not modified, in order to maintain an adequate variety of trees that could be selected, but the “50-percent rule” now must apply to species that are only “very low” water use (where in the December 2022 ODS that rule applied to “low” or “very low” water use tree species);