Title
Study Session Summary of July 31, 2018 - El Camino Real Corridor Specific Plan - Presentation of Design Examples
Summary
Call to Order:
Vice Mayor Larry Klein called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m.
City Councilmembers Present:
Mayor Glenn Hendricks
Vice Mayor Larry Klein
Councilmember Jim Griffith
Councilmember Gustav Larsson
Councilmember Nancy Smith
Councilmember Russ Melton
Councilmember Michael S. Goldman
City Councilmembers Absent:
None
Study Session Summary:
Assistant Director of Community Development, Andrew Miner, gave a presentation including: a summary of the most recent City Council Study Session; information on potential development standards and densities for the segments and nodes; and site-specific examples of the development concepts/densities.
Comments provided by the City Council:
* Support for the site-specific modeling examples and the information they portray of the potential development standards and densities.
* Support for the Community Benefits program, and the need to re-evaluate it every few years to prioritize incentives.
* Emphasis that El Camino Real (ECR) should remain a commercial corridor.
* Concern and support for conceptual maximum height standards, support emphasized near the Civic Center Node.
* Continue to use the conceptual densities presented in the study.
* ECR corridor plan should coordinate with the goals and vision of the Vision Zero Plan.
* Support for the building stepback to occur at the third story.
* Concern over impacts to single-family neighborhoods adjacent to properties on ECR, especially in relation to the proposed 45-degree plane.
* Emphasis on the need for great design standards, including articulation on buildings.
* Concerned with the effects that locating parking/open space in the rear of buildings may have on the low-density housing units that are adjacent.
* Appreciation for the consideration that new buildings may have on the single-family neighborhoods that are adjacent to ECR p...
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