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8A Page 4 Community District) zoning designation. The Precise Plan is a planning tool that defines future development on the affected properties, and has been found to be especially useful when there is a mixture of land uses. In brief, Precise Plans establish zoning standards and design guidelines for properties within P Districts. A copy of the Precise Plan was sent to the City Council under separate cover on January 10 and is available in the City Clerk's office and on the City's website. Staff has received comments on the Precise Plan document from both the Planning Commission and public, and has worked with the applicant to prepare responses to these comments. In many cases, responses to these comments have led to recommended text changes to the Precise Plan. Staff prepared a Response Matrix: Precise Plan Comments and Revisions which includes the comments, responses, and proposed revisions. This was sent to the City Council under separate cover. Attachment 5 includes correspondence from the applicant's planners supporting these revisions. General Plan And Zoning Amendments The current General Plan land use designations for the project site specify a mix of uses including commercial, low and medium density residential, and a controlled waterway. There is also a small portion of Urban Reserve land use designated in the vicinity of high voltage transmission lines that traverse the northeast portion of the site. In order for the proposed project to be entitled, the General Plan will need to be amended to allow school, medium density residential, and open space land use classifications in a different land use map configuration. The current zoning for the properties is Tidal Plain (TP). TP is an open space category which allows wetlands, parks, and agriculture. The Zoning will also need to be amended to the Planned Community {P} District to entitle the project and correlate it to the proposed Precise Plan. Refer to Attachments 1 and 2 which also include the existing and revised land use maps. Buyer Assistance Program The applicant is not proposing any affordable housing within the project per se nor is staff requiring it. At this time only residential projects located within the City's Redevelopment Area require a minimum percentage of affordable housing units.4 Furthermore, this project does not qualify as a competing project with Peninsula Park and thus will not affect the affordable housing provisions associated with that project's development agreement, which was approved by City Council on 12/17/07. In lieu of a traditional affordable housing component, the applicant is proposing a "buyer assistance program" that would be available to educational professionals such as teachers and childcare providers. While details for the program have not been established, it would likely consist of an interest rate buy-down and/or down payment with deferment of interest. According to the applicant, this program would only be available if the Muted Tidal alternative is selected by the State agencies and there is adequate funding to build the school.5 It would not be offered if the Fully Tidal alternative is approved due to the 4 Projects within the redevelopment area require 15% of all units to be affordable. Staff will be working with the Housing and Human Concerns Committee (HHCC) and the City Council to develop affordable housing ~uidelines for properties outside the redevelopment area. State agencies must approve the specific type of levee improvements. The Muted Tidal alternative is less costly than the Fully Tidal alternative and would provide the developer with additional funds to implement