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I I I II Tentative Map and Planned Development Permit; No action would be needed on the parking easement; - 3) To Amend the Project: Deny the appeal of the Certification of the Environmental Assessment; Approve the General Plan and Zoning Map Amendments; Rescind the parking easement by a 5/7ths vote; Uphold the appeal of the Planned Development Permit and Tentative Map requesting that the applicant redesign the project to address any of Council's concerns; and Amend the Zoning Text Amendment accordingly. NEW REPORTS SUBMITIED FOR MAY 12, 1997 MEETING: 2150 Roosevelt Avenue, Senior Planner Passanisi, May 12, 1997; and 2150 Roosevelt Avenue, Robert A. Boland, Assistant City Attorney, May 9,1997 Mayor Hartnett provided a brief review of information received at the public hearing held May 5, 1997 and Council options regarding the appeals and proposed development. He asked if his colleagues had questions of staff. In response to Councilman Claire's questions, Senior Planner Passanisi and Associate Planner Bonte advised that the Rl-MD designation would apply only to two-acre minimum, parcels to ensure quality developments and avoid design compromises. - Passanisi said there were probably fewer than four similar sites in the City, and any planned development of this kind would have to meet many more criteria as well as the two-acre minimum. Passanisi said this designation requires the property to "adjoin higher density sites and commercial sites. To apply this zoning text amendment or this amendment to an island ofR-l, just wouldn't work. It wouldn't meet the criteria laid out in the zoning text amendment. And the Planning Commission wanted to be sure that did not occur. For that reason they added all the stipulations." Passanisi said there is nothing in the City's zoning ordinances that would allow "infill projects at this density in other areas of Redwood City without using the Rl-MD zoning designation, not for single family homes. The Franklin Street Area Plan has a higher density classification, R-4 or R-5, than this proposed development." In response to Councilman Ruskin's questions, Senior Planner Passanisi said it was a possibility that a designation such as this could apply to a 2-acre site ITonting on Woodside Road, next to a commercial site, if it met all the other criteria, but it was hard to predict if that would happen. In response to Mayor Hartnett's direction, City Attorney Schricker explained, "the issues that have been raised (in the appeals) relate primarily to the charge that the Mitigated Negative Declaration is not sufficient, or it is inadequate, for responding to the - environmental aspects of the project. Under the law, a mitigated negative declaration is sufficient to provide environmental review and assessment of a project provided that as a REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO.55 MAY 12, 1997 MINUTES Page No. 313 PAGE 7