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. Staff looked at the soundwall facing Stoneridge Drive. One-half of the project facing Stoneridge Drive would have a masonry soundwalI; the rest of the project has a frontage road bordered by the Stoneridge Drive landscape strip. In this location, the applicant proposes an open wrought iron fence. Mr. Iserson then described the landscaping proposed along Stoneridge and the soundwall. Staff feels the landscaping is well designed and succeeds in breaking up the soundwalI where appropriate. The site configuration is that of a motor-court project. Each unit is located on its own lot accessed by either a private street or motor court. The required ISO-foot access for the Fire Department is not being met below Dennis Drive next to Kaiser Sand and Gravel and the elementary school. The applicant and staff are continuing to work on a redesign of this area. This area redesign will be reviewed by the Commission at the time of the tentative map approval. Guest parking will be accommodated in the full-length driveways, in the guest parking spaces, and on Dennis Drive. The applicant proposes to use decorative paving on the driveway aprons in the motor courts. Staff suggests that decorative paving be used throughout the motor court area. This matter is of concern to the applicant. This is not a condition of the staff report; however, staff encourages the Commission to add this condition in their approval. In the future, it is anticipated that the quarries will be developed into a chain of lakes for a regional recreation area. The applicant has installed a private street along the Kaiser property, . which staff feels is a good design solution to provide access, maintenance, and visibility. Staff proposes that a five-foot landscape strip be provided between the curb and the fence along the Kaiser property, and this can be done by narrowing some of the private streets from 32 feet to 28 feet in width. This will still provide two-way traffic and parking on one side. This is the City standard for private streets. Staff feels there is adequate parking in the project. Staff is also supportive of one model having a tandem garage to reduce the number of double garage doors facing the streets. Staff has not received any negative comments from any of the neighbors. Staff feels the project is well designed, attractive, and well landscaped. Therefore, staff recommends approval of the PUD modification to the City Council, subject to the conditions of approval. Commissioner Cooper inquired if it is standard for other developments to require garage parking and keeping the garbage cans in the garage. Mr. Iserson commented that staff has asked the homeowners associations of other motor-court developments to require in-garage parking because parking is at a premium. For keeping the trash receptacles in the garages, this is done in small- lot developments. . PIanoIng Commission Minutes Page 7 November 6, 1996