Responses to Comments - Agenda Item No. 34

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PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NO. 34 – APPEAL APPLICATION NO. 2024-01 Jenny Hartshorne JH-1: Cultural and/or museum uses are not a permitted use in the single-family residential (R1) zone. Moreover, the use is not consistent with the underlying general plan land use designation of Low- Density Residential (LR-7). JH-2: The installation of the pavilion would not result in any physical alterations to the historic structure. As such, the building will continue to retain all of its character-defining features. Moreover, the proposed structure would not impact any of the view sheds to the Maharajah House along any public perspectives. Proposed changes, which would be confined to the back yard, also would not affect the historical integrity of the Floral Park Historic District as a whole. JH-3: The pavilion would be confined to the back yard and would not affect the historical integrity of the Floral Park Historic District as a whole. As proposed, bamboo would be planted near the north property line to obscure the proposed pavilion from view from the public rights-of-way on Santa Clara Avenue and Heliotrope Drive. While the new bamboo would be clearly visible from the rights-of-way, its appearance alongside the existing wall would be consistent with the internal setting of the Floral Park Historic District, which is characterized in part by its variety of landscaping. In addition, the pavilion and bamboo would be confined to an area corresponding to a very limited portion of the property’s northern frontage, approximately 100 linear feet. Because of the limited physical scale of the changes, the project would be partially visible only from very few public vantage points, further reducing its visual effects to the internal setting of the historic district.