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Variance No. 2016 -04 May 9, 2016 Page 2 development along the City's arterials as well as provide support facilities and services, including offices, restaurants and various other services. Pursuant to the provisions of the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (SAMC Section 41- 1652), adaptive reuse projects are allowed to convert non- residential uses to residential, making the project consistent with this General Plan land use designation. The site is located within the boundaries of the Midtown Specific Plan (SP -3) area. The SP -3 area allows for commercial and service uses. However, pursuant to the provisions of the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (SAMC Section 41- 1651), residential adaptive reuse projects must be located within one of the Project Incentive Areas, which includes the Midtown Specific Plan area. Project Description Meta Housing Corporation is proposing an adaptive reuse project to convert an existing five -story office building to residential, commercial, and community uses. The applicant is also proposing to construct three additional structures and common open space on the site. Two of these structures would contain two stories, and the third would be single -story. All three structures would contain residential units, Residential Component A variety of uses are proposed for the existing five -story building. The ground floor will contain residential units, live /work studios facing Seventeenth Street, an art garden and sculpture at the southwest corner of Main and Seventeenth streets, a lobby and gallery to showcase the various works produced by the artists living at the site, a music and performing arts rooms, and a maker's space for producing and showcasing art. The ground floor will also contain a community kitchen, leasing office, and a laundry room. The upper levels of the five -story building will contain residential units and a laundry room on each level. A total of 48 residential units are proposed in the structure (Exhibits 4 and 5). In addition to rehabilitating and renovating the five -story structure, the applicant also proposes to construct three separate residential structures. Two of these structures would contain two -story residential townhomes, and one structure, which will face Seventeenth Street, will contain three single -story residential units with high ceilings to complement the commercial nature of Seventeenth Street. A total of 10 units are proposed among the three new structures. The project proposes a variety of floor plans to accommodate the unique needs of the targeted community living in the project. Studio units will range from 526 to 722 square feet and will make up 31 percent of the unit types in the project. One - bedroom units will range from 636 to 642 square feet, constituting 14 percent of the project. Two- bedroom units will range from 871 to 965 square feet and will make up 22 percent of the project, and the three- bedroom units will range 31 D -4