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<br />7A <br />Page 54 <br /> <br />COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS <br />Commissioner Cronin asked about density and 16 per acre and needs more clarification <br />on what the number should be. <br /> <br />Mr. Mehra replied that in the residential zone districts, starting at 67,000 square feet, for <br />the first 10,000 square feet you are allowed a triplex and the remaining portion of the lot <br />area (57,000 square feet), you are now allowed one unit for every 2500 square feet of lot <br />area. After the calculations he came up with 16.2 units +/- per acre. <br /> <br />Commissioner Cronin referred to the retaining wall and would like to know what it is <br />needed for and what the use is. <br /> <br />Mr. Mehra replied that with new laws, new development cannot drain the water on an <br />adjoining piece of property. It must be contained on the property and filtered and <br />pushed out into the storm drain system. <br /> <br />Commissioner Holt referred to the density and heard that under current zoning 26 units <br />can be built on that property. <br /> <br />Commissioner Seybert asked what the parking requirement is for any R-2 site in <br />Redwood City. <br /> <br />Mr. Mehra replied that for any new residential development, the developer is required to <br />provide 2 covered spaces per unit. The guest parking is .25 per unit. <br /> <br />Mrs. Ekas stated that in regards to covered requirement it is only 2/3 of the total that <br />would be covered. <br /> <br />Commissioner Seybert asked if decks or structures used to determine rear setbacks. <br /> <br />Mr. Mehra replied that if the deck/balcony is 1 foot or below grade than it is not <br />considered as part of open space, so you do not measure the setback from that desk. <br /> <br />Mrs. Ekas replied that a covered front porch on a street would need to meet the <br />setbacks because it has a roof on it and doesn't qualify as an architectural feature. The <br />City does have supplemental yard requirements for architectural features in the Zoning <br />Ordinance under Article 32.3 and there are different kids of features such as unenclosed <br />balconies, chimneys, unenclosed porches that are allowed to have some projection into <br />a side yard setback. These have been allowed in the past to some extent and also <br />relates to the height of those particular structures. <br /> <br />Commissioner Seybert stated that the lot coverage is 20% less than what is allowed and <br />was this an attempt to create a more desirable layout and design feature of the entire <br />project as a whole. Make it more architecturally different, so that it took up less ground <br />space, but more air space, was that intent to create more open space. <br /> <br />Mr. Mehra replied that is correct, especially with the units along the sides and the back. <br />Initially when staff received the project those were more or less duplexes and staff's <br />intent was to break up that massing and create more space in between the units. <br /> <br />Page 7 of 13 <br />