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<br />Amendment Application No. 2005-07 <br />Tentative Tract Map No. 2005-08 <br />Development Agreement No. 2005-03 <br />Site Plan Review No. 2005-03 <br />September 12, 2005 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />Property Description <br /> <br />The project site is approximately 1.1 acres in size and rectangular in <br />shape located along Main, Twentieth and Nineteenth Streets. The site is <br />improved with a surface parking lot currently utilized by the Bowers <br />Museum. <br /> <br />The current zoning designation is <br />(C1-MD) with a General Plan land use <br />Surrounding land uses include the <br />facilities to the south, residential <br />west, Bowers Museum to the north and <br />(Exhibits 1 and 2) . <br /> <br />Community Commercial-Museum District <br />designation of District Center (DC). <br />Kidseum and Saint Josephs Ballet <br />and office and service uses to the <br />various commercial uses to the east <br /> <br />Project Description <br /> <br />The Steadfast Companies proposes to construct Cordoba, a mixed use project <br />designed to complement the Main Street corridor as well as to provide a <br />sensitive transition to the existing adjacent residential uses. Cordoba <br />consists of 45 units of housing configured around four unique courtyards. <br />Each court will vary in character according to its orientation, size, <br />relationship to building massing, landscape and finishes. The ground <br />floor level fronting Main Street is designed to reflect the primarily <br />commercial nature of Main Street, with the units having a more <br />"storefront" appearance through the use of 12-foot high ceilings and large <br />plate glass windows. These units will consist of dedicated retail and <br />flex space to activate the street edge. The dedicated retail with outdoor <br />patio could be used by a neighborhood serving business such as a coffee <br />house. <br /> <br />The massing along Main Street is three to four stories in height in order <br />to define a strong urban edge. The scale transitions to two-story house- <br />like forms adjacent to the existing single-family homes just west of the <br />site. These house-scaled structures also set back from Nineteenth and <br />Twentieth Streets to respect the deeper landscape setbacks of the adjacent <br />neighborhood. The northeast corner of the building is set back from the <br />streets in order to reflect the deep setbacks in front of the Bowers <br />Museum. <br /> <br />75A-4 <br />