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File #: 13-0855    Version: 1 Name: 8/8/13 - 414 Main Site Plan and Development Agreement
Type: Resolution/Public Hearing Status: Passed
File created: 8/8/2013 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/8/2013 Final action: 8/8/2013
Enactment date: 8/8/2013 Enactment #: R-13-255
Title: Resolution to Approve 414 Main Site Plan and Development Agreement, 414 North Main Street (CPC Recommendation: Approval - 9 Yeas and 0 Nays)
Attachments: 1. 401-403 N Fourth and 414 N Main Staff Report with Attachments-Revised, 2. 5/21/13 Planning Commission Minutes, 3. 414 Main Development Agreement 7-23-13.pdf
Related files: 13-0614, 13-0678, 13-0680
Title
Resolution to Approve 414 Main Site Plan and Development Agreement, 414 North Main Street (CPC Recommendation: Approval - 9 Yeas and 0 Nays)
Memorandum
Attached is a resolution to approve the 414 Main Site Plan and Development Agreement. Approval of this resolution will allow for the construction of a 16-unit townhouse building with an underground garage, 12 carport parking spaces and 24 surface parking spaces, consistent the proposed D2 Downtown Interface zoning.

Petition Summary:

? The Site Plan proposes a 16-unit townhouse building designed to have two short towers on top of a base of underground garages. A 3-story tower containing 8 dwelling units is proposed on the west side of the base, and a 4-story tower containing 8 more dwelling units is proposed on the east side of the base. The western units front North Main Street directly; the eastern units front a central courtyard between the two towers.

? A landscape modification request has been submitted for this petition seeking approval for one long landscape area along the entire north side of the surface parking lot instead of several smaller landscape islands. The size of the proposed landscape area exceeds the minimum necessary to meet code requirements for the proposed parking lot size, but its location is proposed outside of, instead of within, the defined vehicular use area. The Planning Commission recommended approval of the landscape modification petition.

? A development agreement has been prepared to address utility construction and a park contribution.

? The project was reviewed by the Design Review Board for consistency with the Downtown Design Guidelines. All of the Design Review Board’s suggested design changes, which were all relatively minor, were incorporated into the proposed design.

? The two outstanding staff comments noted in the staff report have been satisfactorily addressed. The sanitary sewer mitigation calculations have been revised on the plan to includ...

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