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Page 2 of 27 The original DTPP was adopted ten years ago in 2007. The adoption of the Plan followed more than two years of work involving more than 10 public meetings, thousands of public notices, press releases, and other public outreach efforts. Through the course of the public outreach and meetings, a plan was formulated to best reflect the community’s expressed preferences for the development of the downtown area. A lawsuit was subsequently filed against the DTPP EIR, and as a result, in 2009 the City began to rewrite the DTPP and conduct additional environmental analysis in a new EIR. As noted in the City Council staff report of January 24, 2011 regarding the draft DTPP and its associated EIR, and as documented in Attachment 7 of said staff report, both documents received extensive public review and comment over a several month period in 2010 and early 2011, with a substantial portion of those public meetings being focused on the topic of historic resources. The DTPP has been amended an additional five times since adoption in 2011 and as before each of those amendments occurred through a properly noticed public hearing process. The DTPP affords the City discretion in determining if a project is consistent with the DTPP. The DTPP contains mandatory development standards, and design guidelines, for development within the DTPP area. These include required historic resources review under the purview of the Historic Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC), and certain building and use requirements. With the exception of reduced parking pursuant to allowances under the State Density Bonus law and DTPP (described in detail in the Parking Reduction section of the Planning Commission Staff Report for the Project), staff has determined that the Project complies with all of the mandatory standards and all but fifteen of the guidelines under the DTPP. In the fifteen instances where the Project does deviate from the guidelines, the Planning Commission determined the deviations to be acceptable and in keeping with the overall intent of the DTPP. The project site is located adjacent to three historic resources: 620 Jefferson Ave.; 605 Middlefield Rd.; and, 611 Middlefield Rd. Of these three properties, 620 Jefferson Ave. and 611 Middlefield Rd. are identified in the DTPP as Historic Resources to be Preserved, and 605 Middlefield Rd. is a Historic Resource which may be Altered, Relocated, or Removed. In accordance with DTPP Section 2.1.4.D, the Project was reviewed by a qualified architectural historian and by the Historic Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC) for its potential impacts on the three adjacent historic resources. The architectural historian concluded that the Project would not have any adverse effects on the adjacent resources, and that they would still be eligible for listing on the California Register of Historical Resources. Upon reviewing the historian’s report and other associated materials, the HRAC voted 4-0 that the Project would not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of the surrounding historic resources, and that they will remain eligible for listing in the California Register. As originally proposed, the Project applicant sought deviations from ten guidelines. On October 20, 2016, the Architectural Advisory Committee (AAC) voted 3-0 to recommend approval of nine of the ten guideline deviations, but also recommended denial of the deviation for a rear yard area that was smaller than recommended in the DTPP. The AAC recommended denial unless the applicant revised the project to either: (1) meet 8.A. - Page 2