 Hi, testing audio. Sounds good. I've been keeping myself muted. My dogs are feisty. Hello, Kimberly. This is Andy. I'm doing a sound and video check. Good evening. Your sound is working perfectly. Right. I don't see you yet, but I do have a screen share bullet. Oh, wait. There you are in my little window over on the other screen. I'll turn off my video and audio until about three minutes before. OK, sounds good. Good afternoon. This is Andy Gustafson, and I am the zoning administrator for the city of Santa Rosa. And this evening, May 6, I'd like to call to order the special meeting of the zoning administrator. This is a virtual meeting. And it will be conducted in the same manner as all our public meetings are held. We will have an agenda that's been noticed for this meeting, and we'll follow it. We have one item on the agenda this evening. Before we get into the meeting itself, I just want to review the protocol or the way that the meeting will run in the Zoom meeting. For those of you who aren't familiar, during the course of a meeting, you'll be invited to comment. And if you so wish, if you're participating, by Zoom, you'll press the hand icon, and you'll be recognized by the hearing secretary, and you'll be able to speak. You'll only be able to be heard, though, if you unmute yourself. So please remember that. And then there may be some of you, none appear so now, to have called in. But if somebody does, they will press star 9 to be recognized and to comment. As we will always do before the start of a public meeting, we allow the public to comment on any matter that's not on the agenda. If you do wish to comment, please raise your hand or press star 9 now, and you'll be recognized for three minutes. I'm looking at our four attendees who are present. I see no one wishes to comment at this point. I'll give it a moment and allow somebody to find the icon should they need to. All right. Seeing no one wishes to comment, let's start our public hearing portion of the meeting before we have the first item. I do want to say that any matter that is acted on this evening, approved tonight, or conditionally approved, may be appealed. And we have a 10 day appeal period, 10 business days. And in this particular case, because it falls on a weekend, you will be able to appeal at the end of the first business day, which will be May 17. All right, with all those preliminaries out of the way, let's go to our first and only item on the agenda. And Kristin A. Tumman is our project planner. And could you present your minor design review? And I lost the title of the remainder of your item there. Your keratos permit. Could you announce the action that's being taken, Kristin A. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gustafson. This is Kristin A. Tumman, senior planner. And the item tonight is a change to an approved project for keratos homes. It includes minor changes to the roof, tower, and material modifications for keratos homes. And it's located on a city, part of a larger project called Keratosa Village, which is located on a city block on Morgan and 7th Street. And I want to provide a little bit of background for the project. And because my slides are redundant with the applicant slide, I will then let the applicant proceed with explaining in detail the proposed changes to the design. So just to give you some background, on March 3rd, the city council certified a EIR, Environmental Impact Report, for the project, which included an amendment to the general plan, a specific plan amendment, a rezoning. They approved a tentative map, and they approved a minor use permit for the shelter. That's part of the overall project. Keratos homes included two different residential towers with a total unit count of 126 units plus two units for managers. On August 6, 2020, the city held a joint cultural heritage board and designer view board meeting in which the cultural heritage board approved a landmark alteration permit to allow for the demolition of the buildings that were on the site and allowed the construction of Keratos homes. The designer view board approved the proposed design. And the reason it went before the designer view board and the cultural heritage board at a joint meeting is because it's a downtown project. And the reason we're having a special meeting tonight is because there is a policy whereby downtown projects should be heard earlier than 5 o'clock in the evening to allow for participation from the public. Staff is recommending approval of the revised changes. The applicant is prepared to discuss what those changes are with their slideshow. So let me share that now. Will you be controlling the switching of the slides? Yes. OK, great. OK, so would the applicant like to commence their presentation? I assume, Kristen, that you've concluded your part. Yes, thank you. And let me see here. Applicant, you'll need to raise your hand to be recognized and thus make the presentation. Mr. Payatok will be making the presentation. Mr. Payatok, we're waiting for you to click on the hand icon and you'll be recognized. Kristen, I just want to mention that it looks like your presentation is the one that we see on the screen. Can you hear me? Yes. Oh, OK. The presentation should include some roof plans. Christine, do you have the most recent one that we sent to you? Yeah, there it is. This is the plan as originally approved, the roof plan. And it's basically was a flat roof. And you can see in those sort of bluish gray edge conditions along Morgan and along the side that faces the Caritas Center, those were cantilevered cornices. They had esophage in beams underneath them. They were decorative cornices. And we found that as we evolved the design, we could achieve those same cornices in an easier way and in a way that would allow us to put the future photovoltaic cells on a slope roof. So if you go to the next slide, we basically changed the plan from flat roof to a pitched roof on the top of the most roof. We already had pitched roofs on the lower forms, which were the townhomes facing 7th Street and on the community building, which faced the muse on the, I guess, that would be the east side. And in doing so, in making the pitched roof, it allows to have the surfaces for photovoltaic cells. But it also allows to naturally have eaves that extended out beyond the face of the building and created the cornices with a lot more simplicity and more in the tradition of eaves like that. They came from pitched roofs. They weren't eaves that were projecting through flat roofs and parapet walls. So this was simply a more natural condition and more in keeping with the tradition of eaves and pitched roofs. We kept the flat roofs in two zones on the lower right. There's a tower still that marks the entry into the Caritas Center parking area. And in the upper left, where our elevators are located, there's a flat roof there that allows us to put mechanical equipment in both of those flat areas. We concentrated them there. And that allowed us to have the pitched roof. So if you go to the next slide, yeah. This is the corner on Morgan and the entry into the Caritas Center on the right-hand side. So we kept the tower there. And that had been the look that you saw previously. We had the cantilevered cornices up above. But there was a flat roof beyond. So what you don't see from this view is that there are railings, guard railings, just beyond, behind those extended roofs. So if you go to the next slide, we basically achieved the same kind of cornice, extended cornice. But now they're part of a pitched roof, not extensions from a flat roof through a parapet wall, which is a rather complicated procedure and not really part of the tradition of pitched roofs with overhangs, which is what we now have. If you go to the next slide, this was the view from 7th Street and Morgan. Morgan on the right, 7th in the foreground there. You can see that we had the extended cornices with the beams underneath them on the right-hand side facing Morgan, but we didn't have them on the side that faced 7th Street, the residential side. We had the flat roof, major flat roof building and parapets up there. So when we applied the pitched roof, you can see that in the next slide, it allowed us to continue the slope roof across the top of that flat roof element to lower the height of the building by about five feet. We thought it'd be actually more appropriate facing the residential neighborhood. So we still have the one-story porches on the two-story houses, which you see in the foreground. Both of those have pitched roofs. And then now we have a pitched roof on the main body of the building and still having the extended eaves with the decorative beams on their underside. If you go to the next slide, the next slide basically remains the same. This is what you saw in the last time. We haven't changed the roofs on the lower forms. They're still pitched roofs with the green composition shingle. And we still have flat roofs in the areas where the elevators are located there. So that virtually remains the same. Here's another view of it, the more recent view, but it's basically the same if you go to the next slide. It's on a slightly different angle, but the boat, there's a pitched roof on the building on the right, you can't quite see it here because we're fairly close to the building. You get a hint of it on the other side, a left side, because that's only a two-story portion. But it basically stayed the same as what we had before. So the only difference when you saw that on Morgan, the flat roof with the parapet wall disappeared and is now replaced by a cantilevered eave. And the side from Morgan and the side that faced center, the carotid center are virtually the same. We have the cantilever with the applied beams underneath. And that's safely the presentation just to give you an update on the change in the roof and a slight change in the appearance on the, primarily on the seven street side. Thank you. Did anything change with the elevation in terms of the organization of the building lasting dimensionally? Were you able to preserve that throughout? Yeah, nothing's changed in the plan, in the elevations and the proportions, materials, all of that remained the same. The only adjustment was in the roof. I think the project description did note that the tower on the corner was reduced in height. Can you show that difference? If you go back to the first two, well, the third and fourth slides. Yeah, this is the new version of the tower. It's a few feet lower than the previous one. We didn't feel we had to make it that high to hide the mechanical equipment that's behind it. But if you go to the previous slide, you can see this light difference. Yeah, it was a little more height to the tower above those two bay windows. And if you go then to the next slide, yeah. So we took out about four, five feet at most. It was just wall actually, because it was empty behind it. It's screening the mechanical equipment. And then the articulation along the elevations, those bay windows, the shadowing effect, that has remained the same? Yep, all of that is exactly the same emanating from the plan. The plan hasn't changed at all. Okay, any other aspects of this? You wish to provide information out about at this time? No, that's it really. Okay, thank you. All right, now it's time to close the public portion of this meeting and excuse me, now it's time to offer opportunity for the public to comment if they so wish. If you do, please raise your hand and you'll be recognized for a moment here for people who might wish to comment to find the hand icon to raise your hand. It appears no one wishes to comment, so I'll close the public portion of the meeting. Well, I'm glad that you were able to see a way to simplify and make a change to the building roofline, make construction probably easier and less expensive. That's always a good exercise and I appreciate your bringing this forward for public review. I know this is a very important project in the community and a lot of interest has been given or provided it and being able to bring it forward to show anybody who's concerned about the architectural design and it's fit in the neighborhood, an opportunity to see, I think it's really important. So I have reviewed staff's resolution and I agree that the findings can be made to support the modification and the conditions of approval are appropriate. I do want to recommend or ask if we can attach as exhibits to this resolution. The, is it the planning? No, it was the last set of condition was a planning commission or design review board that had the full design conditions that they be a part of this resolution. That's important because for purposes of the record often the planner of the public, whoever they grab the latest resolution and attaching the majority of the applicable condition of approval to it will help to ensure continuity. So I think with that minor amendment doesn't change the findings nor does it change. The conditions just simply brings forward that historic record. I approve the project and should anybody again wish to appeal the end of the day on the 17th of May, you can do so. Please contact the project planner if you intend to do so. So with that, we can conclude this special meeting of the zoning administrator on May 6th, 2021 and thank you all for attending. Appreciate it. Good night. Thank you.