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contained in the Downtown Specific Plan and Downtown Pleasanton Design Guidelines. Some of the Specific Plan Policies and Design Guidelines applicable to residential additions include: Downtown Specific Plan Policies . Design and Beautification Policy No. 14 - Preserve and protect the character of the East Side neighborhood around Second Street from tear-downs, large-scaled and inappropriately-styled additions, and lot consolidations. Preserve and encourage similar architectural elements and details such as porches, picket fences, and flower boxes. Preserve the neighborhood's orientation of street-facing entrances and windows. . Design and Beautification Policy No. 17 - Protect the established size and spacing of buildings in residential neighborhoods by avoiding excessive lot coverage and maintaining appropriate separations between buildings. . Design and Beautification Policy No. 19 - Maintain the original character of homes by encouraging additions at the rear of the site, wherever possible. Downtown Design Guidelines . Reduce mass through roofforms such as hips, dormers, small gables, and articulations such as balconies. . Integrate additions into the existing massing of the house to avoid a "tacked-on" appearance. . New construction, additions and remodels should reflect the architectural style and detailing of the surrounding neighborhood. The design of the proposed additions would match the architectural style and detailing of the existing home and would be aesthetically compatible with the other homes in this historic Downtown neighborhood. The proposed project would meet the floor area ratio (FAR) and height regulations of the R-I-6,500 Zoning District, which are designed to control the overall mass and height of structures on a property. The height of the addition is not out of scale with several of the other structures along Second Street, and the new roof on the rear of the existing home and above the proposed additions matches the steep (8: 12) roof pitch on the front of the existing home in order to create a seamless transition to the proposed additions. Although a lower roof height could be achieved through a more moderate roof pitch, staff believes the resulting home would be less aestheticalIy pleasing. The remodel would also improve the rear elevation of the home by changing the flat roofline of the existing rear elevation - the result of a previous addition. The smalI front porch would be enlarged to create an attractive entry feature on the front elevation of the house. Except for the smalI, approximately 26 sq. ft. one-story SR:06:221 Page 5