 Good afternoon, Miss Kristin a Can you hear me okay, and we can maybe test your sound I can really Good evening Andy. Let's let me go ahead and resend that prompt to make you a panelist So it'll be right there. Hopefully We can get your sound check Thank you. Can you hear me? Can you see you with your lovely Santa Rosa background there nice turn off my audio and video until a few minutes before Okay, again. Thanks. All right. I think we have a member of our applicant team here Marcus Griffin If you want to try a sound check, let me go ahead and send a prompt there for you All right. Can you hear me okay? Are you great sounds good? I'm glad I came early Yeah, it's nice to be able to do the sound check. It's a The root awakening when you discover yourself. I know in between my monitor and my Headphones and you know everything trying to Mess with you. It's always good to double-check Yeah if you want to go ahead and Control your muting then we won't have to go through the prompting back and forth Yeah, I'll leave it muted for until you tell me otherwise perfect And if we have Andy Bardessa if you're a member of our applicant team You want to raise your hand if you want to go if you want to do a sound check? We go go ahead and send a prompt. I'm gonna give that give that a try. Can you hear me? Yes, we can I'm gonna say okay. I'm gonna say check here I was gonna say go up by the microphone and see how you're I figured it out Okay, good so if you want to go ahead and keep yourself muted until it's the appropriate time then We won't have to go through prompting. I'll mute myself right now Good afternoon. We'll be Commencing the zoning administrator meeting here in about two minutes give everybody time to join us at 5 p.m Official start time it's 5 p.m. September 7th, and I wish to call to order the zoning administrator meeting This is a special meeting and we have one item on the agenda Before we start with that matter like to just review a little bit about the meeting protocol This is a zoom meeting because of the Covid pandemic The governor issued an executive order Which allows us to suspend certain requirements of the Brown Act that enable us to fold this Meeting in a virtual or zoom format All participating members will be able to Waste their comments or add information as if this were an ordinary face-to-face meeting which we hope called soon To participate just as in a regular face-to-face meeting. I will call upon you whether your project planner Project applicant or an interested party And as I said, we do have one meeting item on this meeting agenda And we'll basically follow that order. We'll hear from the project planner first and then the project team and anybody else who might want to comment from the public Today's meeting the outcome a decision made today is Appealable 10 working days full working days After the meeting and I always have to look at my Calendar the 10th day will fall on it's today being Tuesday The 7th it will fall on The 21st or the 20th of September make sure I get that right seven. Yeah, so we'll be on the end of business day Monday the 20th of September All right, so with that introduction and Announcing the appeal date. Let's let's start in on our Schedule on our agenda the first and only item is a public hearing for one eight eight five and one nine Zero fives of basketball road multi-family project with affordable housing and the project is christenate humans Thank You mr. Gustafson. This is christenate me and senior planner and the project we're discussing this evening is acne family apartment It's a request for minor design review and The project site is about 2.43 gross acres and their request is for a predominantly four-story affordable housing multi-family housing project for 77 units There is a one-story community building that will face a basketball road and there will be 130 parking spaces This is the project location. I believe it was an auto dismantling dismantling yard at its previous life and as you can see to the To the east there is a housing development right next door and this area long sabastral sabastral road is Changing quite dramatically from what it was in the past and it's becoming more Residential and commercial in nature the general plan and zoning for the site is CG and r318 so it's got dual zoning and dual general plan designations however, the multi-family use is Allowed by right in both zoning districts The zoning code section 20-16 0 6 0 modifies the review authority for certain entitlements in this case What would normally be a major design review will becomes minor design review because this project is in the Roseland plan development area um it's allowed to You reduce to minor design review as long as the Project goes before the designer view board as a concept designer view which this project did on February 4th of this year This is the site plan for the project as you can see the clubhouse faces sabastral road down at the bottom there It's the one-story releasing an amenity building directly behind it would be a shared amenity that you you can see better in this landscape plan that I'll show in a minute and the Apartment buildings are behind it with parking tuck under tandem parking and surface parking Your elevations for for the project You can see the tuck under parking the original Project when it went to the designer you board featured garage doors and the designer view board thought the garage doors would be a very prominent look and The applicant went ahead and instead of garage doors, they would be open car ports That would encourage parking covered parking to be used as covered parking and We wouldn't have prominent garage doors as you're driving along sabastral road This is the elevation for the community building This is what Drivers and pedestrians would see Along sabastral road Here's the first and second floor plans for the units You can see the parking on level one third floor And I believe I misspoke. I said four stories. These are actually three stories. My my apologies. It's not four stories Here is a 3d rendering of the project site. So you can see the tuck under parking You can see the view there of the surface lots and The tuck under parking Here's a little bit closer view of the community building on the left the apartment buildings behind it And you can kind of see the amenity area behind the community building there just a little glimpse You can see some of the balconies that the apartments would have Here's some more ground level view looking down the project site from the community building and Here's a across-the-street view of the community building. So this is what The pedestrian output what would be what people would see at a pedestrian level or at a car level Here is the landscape plan. This is that the landscape plan for the entire site You can see the that half circle sport court that's proposed behind the clubhouse on the left in the area it will be landscaped with various trees and shrubs Here's a close-up view of the sport court clubhouse and Landscaping along the subasphal road if I go back you can see the Trash enclosures Are well-screened and not readily visible from the street Another thing to mention is in order to get to the 77 units the applicant Requested a 35% density bonus and they qualified for that and that allowed them to achieve the 77 units that they're requesting And with that planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning administrator approve the minor design review permit for Acme family Apartments project and the applicants and his designer are available to go through any design details Questions you might have about the design and staff is also available Thank you very much Chris today quick question about the density bonus It's great. This project is taking advantage of that Is has the type of affordability been defined for this project very low low income I Can look that up. I believe it's in one of the attachments, but I can look that up for you Yeah Yeah, you'll have a moment Let's see and then to clarify you mentioned the trash enclosures being Well concealed those were the ones indicated Under the trellises along the West property line. Is that correct? Did I read that plan correctly? I believe it was the East property line. Oh, I meant these. Yes. Okay. Yes. That's right. That's right. Okay, okay I was making sure the North was pointed in the right direction My mistake And let's see Oh, is there a You mentioned concept design review and and you noted that the Previously proposed garage doors were removed and and made those parking spaces made open as carports Were there any other substantive design? changes in response to the Committee's comments from that meeting. There were a lot of considers not shells. They like to Separate their comments that way. They didn't have any shells for the applicant the original design they felt was a little too Residential and they wanted that wanted the designer to explore a little bit more modern aesthetic The color palette changed to more cool tone And I believe the cladding on the community correct me if I'm wrong design Andy But for Marcus the the cladding on the community building changed as well Or maybe it's just the colors that change, but it made a dramatic difference Okay, cool. No, I just I think it's important to memorialize the design review boards Comments and how that project Changed or not in response to that. So thank you for that Okay Thank you for clarifying those points If any member of the project team or applicant wishes to comment, please raise your hand and you'll be recognized Looks like everyone is On zoom and we have Marcus Hi, Andy. Thanks for having us tonight at the meeting I just wanted to respond to the one question about the affordability This project won an award for the special disaster Tax credits that were Competed for last year So it's a typical what you know, we call 9% project that the overall average affordability is 50% So it's very low income 100% of the project is affordable There's a small component that's at the low income level. So the ranges go from 30% Am I up to 60% Oh, yeah, so moderate. Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess 60% they call low income. Yeah in Sonoma County, they're pretty reasonably high income. So it's it does hit a broader spectrum of households and This project's a large family project. It has a lot of two bedrooms and three bedroom units to try to You know houses many families as possible So that's the the basics there really appreciate your time and we're here for any questions Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I said moderate but 60% would be the low income very low, right? Thank you Any other member the team wish to comment as its point if not Let's give opportunity for any other member of the audience and attendance that wishes to comment Please raise your hand and you'll be recognized seeing none, I'll close the public hearing on this item and and Get to deliberate with myself So it's really great to see a project of this quality Coming forward and building a powerful need that we have for affordable housing and Utilizing the density bonus. I really like seeing that You know that the obviously a lot of thought went into the design I Appreciate and respect the team for responding to the design review committee's comments Making adjustments. I Have one major question if I could see the site plan showing the Activity area I Got a wonder if there could be something I might contribute to the project. Maybe you can respond Okay, I'm just thinking about basketball right now Would it be better to flip that court 180 degrees? So Amateurs like myself who might miss the backboard aren't putting the ball into the wall of the building but rather maybe to the neighbor I don't know if there's some consideration of the property line This is a profound comment and question. I know but maybe practical and I Don't know am I still able to speak or am I I don't know? Yeah, so we could we've crossed that path before and and It's funny that the building there's a building right up against the property line very tall You know the commercial building, but we were also going to put some kind of netting there with that exact concern But we just felt that it worked better in this orientation, but we definitely have to Actually now I hear what you're saying in my mind, it's the opposite like I don't know if you keep on the line But I was thinking that the hoop would be against the building side And we'd be able to put up something that kind of keeps any ball from going in between the fence and the the building Well, in my power as zoning administrator, I grant you authority to flip it around On consideration No, but otherwise in all seriousness, I think What what I appreciate is not just the availability of the units I think more than myself the tenants will appreciate the space provided outdoors And it looks like you've paid attention to that Breaking the buildings up into three parts kind of creates Nice individual clusters. It's not a monolithic footprint It really breaks it down in a very human way so and the clubhouse at the front of the property is The great transition in massing but also puts that public face towards the street. I think that's a really good idea That's a great project. So I Hope it's able to break ground Expeditiously and I know there will be people waiting to Come in and live there So I read the resolution it does Memorialize the steps that it got to get it to this point Including the density bonus, which I think it's important to acknowledge and it makes all the necessary findings for design review here and And they're appropriate the conditions are appropriate And I just would echo or restate my basketball option for you guys and and I have the pleasure of approving the minor design review as proposed and Go forward build it. Thank you And that concludes we appreciate it we're gonna get under construction in December Good one way or the other Well, I wish you all good luck and look forward to seeing it come out of the ground Thank You Kristen a and everyone and with that I'll adjourn this meeting at 518