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ATTY/RESO.0110/CC RESO APPROVING ARCHITECTUAL PERMIT (YMCA PROJECT) REV: 11-06-25 VR Page 4 of 5 E. The extent to which natural features, including trees, shrubs, creeks, and rocks, and the natural grade of the site are to be retained. The site is flat and minimal grading will be needed. Phase 2 includes the removal of 46 trees and would retain 34 existing trees. The project proposes to plant 50 new trees (10 Olives and 40 California Sycamore trees) and would install new landscaping. Both the existing and newly planted trees would provide shading and enhance greenery around the site. F. The accessibility of off-street parking areas and the relation of parking areas with respect to traffic on adjacent streets. The overall number of off-street parking spaces available in the surface parking lot would be 180. To provide additional parking that could be used by visitors to the site and Red Morton Park, the revised Phase 2 design would include modifications to the existing right-of-way adjacent to the site on Madison Avenue to provide a total of 9, on-street, parallel parking stalls. Additionally, the City has agreed to modify the frontage to the VMB/SC to provide a total of 19 additional angled on- street parking stalls. The City will also restripe the surface parking lot adjacent to the Community Activities Building (16 additional spaces), the surface parking lot accessed via Myrtle Street (6 additional spaces) and Red Morton lot (6 additional spaces). With the proposed parking on the frontage of the VMB/SC and these three surface parking lots restriped, an additional 56 spaces would be added to the overall parking inventory in the adjacent off-street lot on-site, for a total of 236 parking spaces to adequately serve the YMCA building and Red Morton Park users. G. The reservation of landscaping areas for the purposes of separating or screening service and storage areas from the street and adjoining building sites, breaking up large expanses of paved areas, separating or screening parking lots from the street and adjoining building sites, and separating building areas from paved areas to provide access from buildings to open space areas. The lawn area and grove of trees facing Madison Avenue would be preserved. The existing trees would help screen the overall development, including service and storage areas, from the street and from backyards of neighboring residences. The building is set back from the street; and the parking lot is located well within the site, designed to have limited visual impact, and is not directly visible from the street. Existing trees and new rows of trees would help provide shading and enhance the greenery to the parking lot and this portion of the site.