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7. sports court 8. The Chrismans' continued use of the well on the Brozoskys' property after City water service is provided to Chrismans' property 9. Development Agreement 10. Conditions of Approval The staff report is prepared in the order of responding each issues addressed above. ANALYSIS Definition of FAR (Floor Area Ratio) The Planning Commission requested staff to return with clarification of how to calculate floor area ratio, if it was considered in the original approval and what the proposed planned unit development modification intended. The Floor Area Ratio is defined two ways in the Pleasanton Municipal code for properties that lie within straight zoned districts; the original PUD did not alter those definitions. 18.08.190 Floor Area, Basic: "Basic floor area" means the total amount of gross floor area a building contains, expressed as a percentage of the total area of the lot. 18.08.195 Floor Area, Gross: "Gross floor area" means the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building and its accessory buildings on the same site excluding: basement or cellar areas used only for storage; space used for off street parking or loading; steps, patios, decks, terraces, porches, and exterior balconies, if not enclosed on more than three (3) sides. Unless excepted above, floor area includes, but is not limited to, elevator shafts and stairwells measured at each floor (but not mechanical shafts), penthouses, enclosed porches, interior balconies and mezzanines. The Planning Commission wished to have clarification of what is or is not considered square footage that is used for the calculation of floor area ratio. As shown above, the code excludes and excepts certain uses. It is of note that garages, e.g. "space used for off street parking or loading" is not included in square footage for purpose of calculation FAR (Floor Area Ratio). Also not added into square footage calculated for floor area ratio are areas that are second floor empty unusable space between floors such as stairwells. The original PUD-05 conditions for the approved production homes did not amend the Zoning Ordinance definition of FAR and defaulted to the R-1-40,000 development standards if standards needed to be interpreted. The modification to the first phase of Case No. PUD-OS-02M 4 Planning Commission