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April 15, 2025 Page 7 Moreover, staff has undertaken additional research on parking demand for assisted living facilities. A common standard is .25 spaces per bed, plus .5 spaces per employee. For this facility, with 38 maximum beds and 5 staff, the estimated parking demand would be 12 spaces. As such, staff’s position is that the 16-space parking supply would be sufficient for nearly all conditions, with an occasional exception for a few high-demand events such as Mother’s Day. 6. Building Design and Materials. The proposed building is designed as a two-story facility with a gabled roof and two cross-gables along the north (front) wall. The south exposure does not show any additional architecture variation either in the roof or wall plane. The R-4 District includes the following requirement: The applicant for any multi-family structure in the R-4 District shall provide a proposed materials palette, including a plan that shows brick, stone, glass, and architectural metal on no less than 50% of all building walls. Architecture shall include significant articulation in both wall facades and building roofline. The building materials for this structure are primarily lapped metal siding and a wainscot of simulated stone, as well as other stone elements around the main entry facing the parking area and toward the street. The west (street), north, and east exposures show some changes in building wall and roofline. However, the south wall, adjoining the apartment property and subject to the requested setback variance, shows little articulation as noted above. Staff would recommend that this exposure is addressed to add visual interest on this side of the building. This recommendation is strengthened by the fact that this exposure is limited in potential landscape planting due to underground utilities and the narrowed side yard. Enhancing the visual impact of this exposure would help offset the lack of landscape and the setback reduction. As noted, the applicant has added cross gables to the south roof plane, and enhanced the materials on the south and west side of the building with additional stone wainscot. 7. Emergency Access. The applicants have worked with the City’s Fire Department staff to design a no- parking lane on Foss Road for emergency vehicle access to the site. It is noted that with assisted living facilities, higher emergency call rates are common, and ensuring that this access is available is a condition of site plan approval. The alternative would have required backing emergency vehicles out onto Foss Road after a call, a less than ideal condition. 8. Grading and Drainage, Impervious Surface. The site is developed to capture stormwater and drain to infiltration and rate-control ponding at the east end of the site, before the treated stormwater is released to the Mirror Lake storm system. The City Engineer will review the grading and drainage plans for compliance with the City ‘s requirements. The site has been re-designed to fall just above the maximum impervious surface coverage of 50% for the R-4 District at 54.3%. This coverage requires a variance (as discussed above). It excludes the deck area to the east of the building, which is not factored into the impervious coverage provided that the “weed barrier” below the deck is a pervious fabric material.