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infry x <br />s+� r��y4% ♦y�i <br />Project Site <br />Height Reduction ,ores: 1 -Courthouse Square Area. 2 -Broadway CorrkW 3 -Main <br />Street Comdor. 4-bbrary Area. 5 -Stambaugh -Neuer Transition Area, 6-Mezesville <br />Transition Area, 7 -El Camino Real Transition Area. <br />In addition, the DTPP EIR studied the shadow impacts of new development, including <br />the potential for new development to create shadow impacts on historic facades and <br />buildings using solar collectors. The EIR threshold was that no new structure should <br />cause existing buildings with these foregoing shadow -sensitive uses/features to be <br />more than 50% in shadow at 12.00 p.m. on the Spring Equinox. As discussed earlier in <br />this report, the property at 620 Jefferson Avenue includes a historic structure, and that <br />structure also uses solar collector panels on the south -facing portion of the roof. The <br />shadow study that was prepared for the DTPP EIR found that the historic resource at <br />620 Jefferson Avenue was already 100 -percent in shadow at 12.00 p.m. on the Spring <br />Equinox due to its orientation to the sun. In other words, the mass of the building <br />shades its own fagade, rather than it being shaded by a neighboring building. In <br />addition, the Applicant submitted a shadow studv demonstrating that at 12.00 p.m. on <br />the Spring Equinox the proposed Project will cast no shadow on any portion of the <br />historic structure at 620 Jefferson Avenue, or its solar collector panels. <br />Finally, as shown on the Architectural Character Area map on p. 112 of the DTPP, the <br />site is within the North of Marshall District, which the DTPP describes as, "...an area <br />that saw most of its development occur in the mid to late 20th Century," and, "...an area <br />of transition in relation to the historic center, with architectural character and styles that <br />incorporate materials and imagery of contemporary design." The DTPP further notes <br />that pre -World War II architectural styles have very little representation in the North of <br />Marshall District, and that, "Greater flexibility is allowed here than in other places <br />because compatibility isn't as significant of an issue as it is elsewhere." This greater <br />flexibility includes taller building heights and the widest allowance for architectural <br />character types, including contemporary. Of the six architectural character types <br />