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6.1C In the past, Precise Plan Initiation has been considered by the City Council in a variety of Page 2 formats. In some cases, a study session with courtesy noticing of adjacent property owners has been done. Because there have already been five well-noticed community meetings considering the concept level plans, this process for Peninsula Park is considered to be administrative. No notice was made, and no study session or power point presentation will be provided at the City Council meeting on December 11th. The Zoning Ordinance outlining the initiation process does not make any other specific requirements. At the last community meeting on October 171h, staff announced that the Precise Plan Initiation would be forthcoming to the Planning Commission and City Council in this manner. Planning Commission supported a motion to recommend Initiation of the Precise Plan to the City Council at their meeting on November 141h (M/S Cronin/Codding, 6-0-1, Gee absent). Proiect Description: This application is for the Peninsula Marina site only and does not include Pete's Harbor. The City is not in receipt of any application materials for Pete's Harbor at this time. As proposed in conceptual level plans, the project consists of a 33-acre site, which is currently comprised of an approximately 14-acre marina basin with the 19 acre balance in dry land. Low-rise office buildings, a restaurant, a surface parking lot, and some graded, but otherwise unimproved areas make up the current site development. As proposed, the Peninsula Park plans indicate significant reconfiguration of the site. The proposal includes reducing the marina basin area by approximately 50%. The basin boundary would also be shifted to create more usable uplandS. The resulting land area is proposed to be developed with 796 residential condominium units; a 200 room hotel; approximately 10,000 square feet of neighborhood serving retail; a community park; and a variety of waterfront access features open to the public. The housing units are proposed in a variety of building typologies, including two-story town home configurations, six-story buildings, and ten-story buildings. The plans indicate that a maximum of 8% of the total site area would be developed with the taller 120-foot high structures. The remaining 92% of the site area would be comprised of buildings with a maximum height of 75 feet. General Plan And Zonina Compliance: In 2004, the General Plan land Use Designation for this site was amended to allow for residential uses. The General Plan Land Use Designation allowing for mixed-use development (residential and commercial uses) was not repealed by the referendum and remains in place. The existing designation allows for residential densities of up to 40 units per acre generally, and at higher densities if certain findings can be made related to the benefit of the specific provisions of the residential development such as affordability and/or transit orientation. In this case, the proposed residential density is approximately 35 units per acre, and thus, even though some of findings could potentially be made, there is no need to evaluate the project on such criteria in order to accommodate the proposed density. With respect to Zoning, the site is located within the General Commercial Zoning District. This district allows for aU of the proposed commercial uses, but does not allow residential uses. A Planned Community zoning designation with an associated Precise Plan is proposed as an amendment to the existing General Commercial designation. In each Planned Community district, a corresponding Precise Plan is used to establish the land use controls and design standards. The land use controls in such a plan take the place of traditional zoning regulations in terms of permitted and conditional uses as well as heights, setbacks, lot coverage and other building envelope requirements. Precise Plans include a significantly higher level of detail than zoning ordinances in that they may make specific requirements about the location of buildings and a multitude of design requirements 2005 City Agenda format