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2525 North Main Street January 14, 2019 Page 3 Item Information South Single‐Family Residential — R1 West Discovery Science Center — SD‐65 Property Size 5.93 acres (258,310 square feet) Existing Site Development The site contains a two‐story, 81,172 square foot office building with 442 parking spaces Applicable Zoning Code Sections Existing: SAMC Chapter 41, Article Ill, Division 8 (Professional) Proposed: SAMC Chapter 41, Article III, Division 26 (Specific Development) Entitlements SAMC Chapter 41, Article V, Division II (Amendments and Change to District Boundaries) Background and Chronology City records indicate that the site was occupied by a variety of uses, including a mortuary, gas station, medical center and single‐family residences in the 1970s. At that time, the site had two zoning designations of General Commercial along Main Street and Single‐Family Residence to the east. In 1980, General Plan Amendment No. 1980‐20, Amendment Application No. 832 and Conditional Use Permit No. 1980‐07 were approved, amending the general plan designation to Professional and Administrative Office and changing the zoning to the Limited Professional/Specific Development District (LP/SD) to allow for the construction of the existing two‐story office building with 269 parking spaces on 4.66 acres of the subject site. A 1.27‐acre parcel located at the corner of Main Street and Edgewood Road remained as General Commercial. In 1996, General Plan Amendment No. 1996‐04 and Amendment Application No. 1996‐04 were approved to amend the General Plan and zoning designations of several properties along Main Street, between the I‐5 Freeway and Main Place Drive/Memory Lane, including the subject property. The amendments provided consistency with the mid‐rise offices and were intended to create a gateway to the Main Place District Center from downtown. The subject property was amended to the current designations of Professional and Administrative Office and zoning was amended to Professional. In the early 2000s, the property at the corner of the site (previously a medical office building) was combined with the subject site to expand the parking lot for the office building. Project Description The applicant is proposing to demolish the existing office building and develop a high density multi‐family residential development on the site. The original proposal included the development of 517 residential units wrapped around an 8‐level parking structure. However based on staff and public feedback, the applicant elected to reduce the request to 496 units. The revised project would result in approximately 930,705 square feet of development (572,075 square feet of residential buildings and 358,630 square feet of parking structure and common open space structures) at a density of 84 dwelling units per acre, with an average unit size of 972 square feet. The floor area ratio is 2.21 which is derived by calculating the square footage of the gross building square footage (residential development and common open space, excluding the parking structure square footage) by size of the property. The unit mix varies from studio units, one‐ Commented [DH2]: It’s a 9‐level parking structure with 2 levels of the parking structure extending above the residential portion of the building. (See page 4)