CC WORKSESSION 06012020 JOINT WITH PLANNING COMMISSION

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o Surrounding land uses include multi-family housing to the north and east, and the noted restaurant to the south. To the west, across Stinson Boulevard, the land use is other multi-family residential in the City of Columbia Heights. • PUD Flexibility – Density. The proposed apartment building consists of 38 units, on .85 acres – a density of approximately 44.7 units per acre. The City’s Comprehensive Plan allows for projects of up to 40 units per acre, while the R-4 Zoning District would accommodate just 25 units per acre without PUD flexibility. The R-4 District is used as a comparison district for purposes of establishing the baseline zoning requirements as it would be the zoning district applied if PUD were not being pursued. Thus, the flexibility requested under this PUD project would require a method of accounting for density that would be consistent with the 40 units per acre standard now adopted in the Comprehensive Plan. Options include expanding the area considered as the base project area (including a portion of the Unofficial property), or considering areas in the Silver Lake PUD that have been built out at a lower density, and transferring a portion of that allowance to the proposed site. • PUD Flexibility – Site and Building Plan. The applicants are seeking to depart from the R- 4 zoning District (as well as previous multi-family requests considered by the City) to accommodate site and building plans that are focused on affordability, forgoing some of the common amenities and requirements made of other projects. Included in this list of accommodations would be the following: o Parking. The applicants are proposing a parking supply of 46 spaces, a ratio of 1.2 spaces per unit. This number is equal to the number of total bedrooms in the project – 46 – based on a mix of 30 one-bedroom units and 8 two-bedroom units. The R-4 standard, which would otherwise apply to general market multi- family residential would be 2 spaces per unit. The other departure related to parking is the City’s R-4 standard which requires at least half of the parking to be covered. The applicants are proposing surface parking only, with no covered or underground spaces. o Impervious Surface. The concept plan does not provide an impervious surface coverage estimate. The R-4 standard would be 50%. Staff’s estimate of the current site plan would be that nearly 80% of the site would be covered by building and parking lot/driveway. o Access. The proposed plan utilized the existing access point to Stinson and an access point to 38th Avenue NE. The expanded site plan also shows the potential