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ATTY/RESO.0029/CC RESO APPROVING ARCHITECTUAL PERMIT, TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP (920 SHASTA) REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 9 of 12 uses transitioning from lower density residential or light industrial to higher density and moderately scaled developments. The General Plan Density for this category is 40 dwelling units per acre and up to 60 dwelling units per acre with community benefits. The Project utilizes State Density Bonus Law (Government Code Section 65915 (f)(3)(D)) and AB1763 which specifies that in certain circumstances which this Project meets, then no density limit applies. The Project requests an additional 51 density bonus units. Staff believes that the Project is consistent with multiple General Plan Policies, Goals, and Programs including: • Policy BE-11.5: Improve public streetscapes along the corridors, including widened sidewalks and crosswalks, protected crosswalks, regular street tree planting, bus shelters and street furniture, and pedestrian-oriented street lighting. • Policy BE-11.7: Provide the appropriate density and intensity of land uses to facilitate high levels of transit use along corridors. • Policy BE-12.2: Encourage the replacement of older low-scale, auto- oriented development with well-designed new projects that offer pedestrian orientation, higher densities with more efficient use of land, and continued productive economic value. • Policy H-2.1: Support the construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, and maintenance of affordable housing, including supporting ways to extend the affordability levels periods on deed-restricted units. • Policy H-2.3: Continue to require affordable housing to be constructed in conjunction with larger residential projects and encourage affordable housing construction associated with nonresidential construction. • Policy H-4.2: Reduce residential parking requirements for residential development in conjunction with increased bike parking or proximity to transit. The Project provides a moderately scaled higher-density residential development in a Zoning District intended to transition lower density residential and light- industrial uses to higher density uses. In addition, two sides of the building are not primarily visible because of its adjacency to Woodside Road, and the Project site is surrounded by a variety of uses, and the residential Project would mostly replace a self-storage use. The deed restricted affordable units would be walking distance from high quality transit on El Camino Real and Middlefield Road, with improvements to the sidewalks including new street trees, pedestrian scale lighting, and planters.