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. . . are asking for 82 residents. This is an 18% increase in density, and they are dismissing previous conditions of no parking on Mohr Avenue and construction of a soundwall along the 1/4 mile section of road. Mr. Sharp feels finances are the reason for not constructing the sound wall, and would agree to planting vines on the soundwall to discourage tagging. Mr. Sharp believes some residents will still have cars, and feels this will add to the dangers on this roadway. He stated that a significant number of cars are not being registered on traffic counters because they are turning onto Kolin. Further, he feels the noise will increase with the addition of an elementary school and the development of the Busch property. Mr. Sharp believes the applicants should be held to the conditions of approval from 1990 and that improvements to this street need to be made now. In rebuttal, Mr. Shutts feels they are not responsible to provide a soundwall for a situation that is not significantly increased by this project. He feels developing the street to full width is the greatest single safety improvement for this roadway. Mr. Shutts feels the project may not be able to afford to build a soundwall. In response to Commissioner Barker, Mr. Shutts believes it would be possible to have access from the parking lot to the adjacent parking lot. He also clarified that using the number of units rather than residents is a standard engineering practice used for traffic studies. Commissioner McGuirk inquired what would stop a resident from parking their cars on the street as opposed to the parking lot. Mr. Shutts advised that it is a condition of residency that they will not keep a vehicle on site. Commissioner Hovingh commented that people living in these facilities have long since given up their driver's license or else they wouldn't be in one of these facilities. Kay Ku, the applicant, stated she has been in this business for 24 years, and there have been only two cases where they allowed a resident to have a car on site and that only lasted for a few weeks. The overflow parking from holiday celebration will only occur about once or twice per year when they invite families to the facility for Thanksgiving and Christmas. All other holidays have very little additional traffic. Commissioner Dove advised that he has visited the Kus' Castro Valley facility, noted there was plenty of parking space available, and also noted the average age of the residents was 86-88 years of age. PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED Commissioner Barker inquired of staff what procedure could provide amenities such as a soundwall when there is no one development which necessitates it, but is the result of a collective of developments, Mr, Beougher advised that these items are provided for in the Planning Commission Minutes Page 20 February 28, 1996