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single family dwelling units requiring eight on-site parking spaces, and two rental units requiring three on-site spaces for a total of 11 required parking spaces for the project. There are no minimum off-site parking requirements or provisions that a residential development is obligated to provide extra parking when proximate to a commercial district. The project is providing three on-site tandem spaces for each of the four detached single family units and two standard "side by side" parking spaces for each attached dwelling unit, for a total of sixteen spaces. The total number of on- and off-site parking proposed by the site design is twenty spaces. There is a total of eight existing on-street parking spaces located along St. John Street and Peters Avenue. The development will cause a loss of four of these spaces due to the driveway cuts. Should tandem parking not be allowed, most of the on-street parking would be lost in order to provide standard two-car driveways providing 'side by side' parking. Tandem Spaces Although not allowed by Code, tandem parking is not unusual in Downtown since many of the properties have older homes. At the request of staff, the applicants surveyed the area and found tandem spaces and one-car garages on West Angela Street, Abbie Street, Ray Street, Pleasanton Avenue, and Second Street (see Exhibit D). Detached garages located towards the rear of the lot with long driveways and tandem parking tend to compensate for two-car garages, and despite some inconvenience, staff has not received complaints with tandem parking. Staff notes that two new projects in Pleasanton were approved in the 1990's with tandem parking spaces: I) Stoneridge Place, immediately south of the eastern terminus of Stoneridge Drive, and 2) a four-plex located at 148 Spring Street. The PUD process enables the City to approve exceptions to standard code requirements such as tandem parking arrangements when appropriate for a specific development. Staff believes that in this case, the proposed tandem parking allows for more usable open space and landscaping on site, allows for a reduction of paving on the site, allows for more storm water runoff to be retained on site, and is consistent with Downtown's character in that a number of homes in the Downtown area have tandem parking spaces. Furthermore, staff believes that the use of tandem parking is part of a trade-off that allows for a small-lot single family ownership development in an area planned for high density. This product was designed to fit in with the existing area by avoiding 2-car garages/driveways, which tend to dominate the streetscape, yet accommodating on-site parking for three vehicles in a manner which is not uncommon in the Downtown. SR:05:258 Page 6