 Hello again, thanks for joining us. I'm Tony Perez with Opticose Design and I'm on the Santa Rosa team here and here with you today to talk about session five of six about core-based codes and today's session It's about articulating physical character through building types So thanks for joining us today Building types are a really great tool, but they are helpful in certain situations and maybe not as necessary in other situations So let's talk about what they do versus what regular standards do without building types on the left hand side you can see the The allowed maximum height width and depth of the building and another way to say that is the maximum zoning or building envelope and the building can go anywhere in that volume or all the way up to that and then it gets designed Through the process on the right hand side. You can see the same size lot and That L building fitting inside that building envelope on the left But being far more articulated. I'm talking not talking about the architecture I'm talking about the L and the massing of it and the size of it As distinct from the more general shape on the left and so in some situations You might say well the the shape on the left is fine And so we don't need any more information than that other than the design of the building of course And so in that case you wouldn't use building types but in the case of the right if that's the expectation about that kind of shape and footprint and and Relationship to the street then it might be in your interest to use building types to further shape the building envelope and And you know comparing the building type approach with conventional zoning, you know, there's a Really prevalent practice of using floor area ratio or f a r and you can see here in this diagram How about it's used on the top of that yellow bar are is the height of a building in one two or four stories? In this in this example And on below that yellow bar is what it looks like if you were looking at that building from above or in plan you And so you can see that the floor area ratio of 1.0 Can mean a one-story building covering The site entirely except for setbacks or it can mean Half of the lot is covered With a two-story building or can mean a quarter of the site is covered with a four-story building. And so, you know, this is a very Well-known practice and a lot of people really a lot of practitioners and planners really like this approach because you can quickly calculate How much score footage is allowed on a property? but if you're a neighbor or or or someone else in the community that is concerned about what might happen next door, this is not a very helpful system and Along with that the density approach we talked about early in this series is also not very helpful again This is that comparison we showed earlier about a three-story building longer than you can see in the photo on the right with 49 building 49 units in the building and And 30 units of the acre and then a five-unit two-story building with 29 units of the acre so again very Very prevalent practice of using this metric and the FAR metric, but in terms of what the form that these Metrics reduce it's not predictable. It's not something necessarily Fits in with what is already in the neighborhood And then just going back to this idea of the building types and that the two categories we talked about in the in the building types Session of this series the block scale buildings and the house scale buildings So we're going to take that forward and talk a little further about each of these types And so in the house scale category on the left here, we're going to focus on that and in the house scale category It is the category of buildings that are the size houses small to large whether they have one unit many units in them units and in Non-residential space, whatever they have in them and we're talking about the scale not the use and so these buildings also have Separation between them they tend to be attached with front side and rear setbacks And so that that is their common trait among all the types And then there are different types within this category as you can see on the screen there. So let's look at those Looking from the left to the right here You see that we we categorized houses in two two varieties the large and the small to medium And then there is the duplex and sometimes that side-by-side or stacked You could see that the multiplex building with three to six units in it Again is that house scale very good example there on the right of a house scale building with six units in that case Or in the bottom left, you know a cottage court where they're individually They're detached cottages one story typically with a two-story building at the rear of that of that type of project not always but typically and then the courtyard building where there are flats and townhouse type of units arranged around a courtyard or Or series of courtyards and then the multiplex large so if you look at the top right we break the multiplex into two varieties the small which is About six units and sometimes a little more And then the large in this case 7th to 12 and sometimes that goes a little higher also And then the townhouse an array of three to four sometimes a few more maybe five or six Units in a row again to resemble that house scale size in height and in width and depth And then let's talk about those individually Here's the duplex side-by-side as its name suggests these are two units side by side as opposed to the current practice of Gluing two houses together that are much bigger than a house would be on its own So it's important distinction between the house scale and then houses being put together Here's the cousin of the of the the house the duplex side-by-side the duplex stacked and as its name suggests You can see the stair in the examples on the left and the right going to the top unit. These are flats one flat above another And then the cottage court Some regions call this the bungalow court as in where this photo is from this is in Pasadena, California And the term bungalow court is used in that community. Maybe that's how you know it But again that the individual cottages arranged around a garden Usually with a lot taller building at the rear in this case that taller building has three units in it And then the multiplex that we talked about here's the small I love this example from Kortelain, Idaho It has five units and then when I first saw it a couple years ago. I thought it was a house It was a neighborhood of houses and much like missing middle Occurs across the country. This is the five unit multiplex in the neighborhood of houses and then the The cousin of that multiplex small as the multipix large and this one Has 12 units in it and you can see it's much longer, but it still has that two stories With that occupied attic space and then even from left to right and to end You know, this is the largest house that you might see in your town, but it's still how scale Courtyard building as as the names suggest here the units are arranged around a courtyard And that courier is open to the street in this case It's often to maintain that that smaller house scale often that a big Component of that is the fact that the courtyard is open to the street and you are visually Perceiving and reading the two volumes of the building on the left and the right as opposed to a solid volume like on the back and Then the townhouse as we were saying here This one has four in a row an array of four and that is maintaining that large The large end of house scale as you saw in the multiplex large they're almost about the same size It this is just two stories You know with a smaller with a smaller slightly smaller footprint And then the other end of the spectrum of building types the block scale Part of the spectrum again, these are buildings that are Individually or collectively as large as most or all of the block so this end of the scale of building types block scale and is is a little different than the house scale and in the sense that There are a couple of these types that might be relevant in the study area and Others that wouldn't be and so we're still in the process of determining that I think it's safe to say that the tower is not Probably worth considering in this in the study area, but there are others it might be so we just wanted to show these to you and Make you aware of them and you know, I think it's also interesting to point out that them how we broke down the other Building types into two varieties. You can see that happening here with the main street. There's a small version and a large version so again articulating physical character through building types and then taking those building types and Breaking them into two varieties Everything that we've been talking about today Either fits in the block scale or in the house scale end of the spectrum and it's really it's really just the Very fun to think about it this way to say there are many building types But there are two categories and you can talk with your friends. You can talk with your colleagues You know your neighbors and say, hey, you know, let's first Identify are you talking about house scale buildings? Are you talking about block scale buildings? Oh house scale. Well, are you talking about the fourplexer and you can go into it that way and it's a much more articulate fun way to talk about it understand it and then ultimately Deploy it in your community through vision and standards. So thank you very much for being with us today And we look forward to seeing you the next session and hearing your questions to comments. Thank you