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8.0 Page 6 preservation standards and guidefines to each resaurce, and summarizes appiicable preservation measures found throughout the Plan. • A Historic Resources appendix which includes a full survey of both existing and potential historic resources; detailed information about each resource; clarification of the historic resources project review process; and an extensive discussion of how the findings in the survey affects the regulations in Book If (such as permitted uses, parking requirements, height reductions, and required setbacks) of the Plan. • Inclusion of new shadow impact policies and an appendix featuring a discussion of the findings of the shadow study and how those findings impact the regulations in Book II of the new Plan. • Revised and fully detailed process description/diagrams. As with the previous 2007 Downtown Precise Plan, the current Plan is a"form-based" code which addresses the relationship between building facades and the pubfic realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks. The regulations and standards in form-based codes, presented in both diagrams and words, are keyed to a regulating plan that designates the appropriate form and scale (and therefore, character) of development rather than only distinctions in land-use types. Maximum Allowable Development (M.A.D.) An important component of the DTPP is the Maximum Allowable Development (M.A.D.) limit. The Downtown Precise Plan establishes a"cap" or limit of the amount of residential development (units), new office and retail development (floor area), and new commercial lodging development (hotel rooms) to be permitted within the Downtown Precise Plan area after adoption of the Plan. This limit is known as the M.A.D. cap. The DTPP stipulates that when the M.A.D. cap is reached in any land use category, no further development in that category would be permitted without City Council-approved amendment to the M.A.D. limitation provisions of the Downtown Precise Plan. In 2007, the City approved the "moderate intensity" M.A.D. caps and these same caps were incorporated in the draft DTPP and studied as the project in the EIR. The M.A.D. caps are presented in the following fable: Project Maximum Allowable Development (M.A.D.) Caps Residential Office Retai( Lodging Industrial (units) (sq. ft. (sq. ft.) (rooms) (sq. ft.) Maximum Allowable 2,�00 275,000 221,000 2�0 -95,000 Development (MAD) The Planning Commissian recommended that the City Council adopt the M.A.D. caps 6