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2. Items, if any, that will be reviewed: If, for example, you chose to require site plan approval in order to verify that certain standards are being rrt, clearly specify what a person must bring when they apply; for example. legal description of property, scale plans showing X, site plans showing Y, etc. 3. Identification of Decision Maker(s): Identify the individual(s) or group that will be reviewing and deciding upon the application. Include any unusual times or sequencing that is required (such as X and Y must first be submitted to the such and such person, and upon the approval of those, X and Y and Z must be submitted to so and so, who will review them during some week(s) of each month) 4. Method/Process of Review: Indicate HOW the decision will be made -- a. based on the review of above/below standards b. any notices, time for conrnents, etc. c. appeal method and body d. decision making schedule -- within X days after submission of the required documents, a decision will be made 5. Standards: Consider the following: a. size of accessory unit, and in relation to principle unit -- to assure distinction between principle and secondary units -- to comply with applicable housing standards considerations: other size standards, probable space needs of occupants, relative sizes of the two units (if you feel you must specify, percentages are more useful than absolute square footages) b. age of structure -- to restrict builders of new units in SF area from building to accommodate or include an accessory apartment -- to focus on older and larger housing stock considerations: if you wish to isolate the applicability to homes of a certain size which you can date before some year, and you can document that fact and the community value in those limits, you can have the ordinance only apply to units built before X year; some ordinances address the concern about new construction by restricting the ordinance to units built prior to the adoption of the ordinance, but that pretends that nothing will age beyond that date, i.e. it does not resolve the problem of the desire for conversions in ten years of houses built tomorrow; to address the new construction concern, another idea might be to restrict the ordinance to units over X years of age, from the date of the application c. exterior alterations -- to ensure that the exterior remains that characteristic 5 '1 /". 35