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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes May 13, 2025 Page 4 4.1 Unit sizes below standard City requirements must identify a transitional plan 2 supporting redesign if the facility changes to a general market facility. 5.3 Density is limited to between 20 and 40 units per acre. 6.4 Additional necessary conditions related to the Comprehensive Plan or local 5 conditions. 6 7 Mr. Grittman provided comments on each of these conditions. The Site Plan and Setback 8 Variance were reviewed in detail. 9 10 The second variance request relates to the requirement for parking for the facility, and the further 11 requirement that the larger part of the parking is placed below grade. 12 1.13 Parking Supply – There are two issues at play with regard to supply. Under the 14 regular senior multi-family standard, a total of 38 parking spaces would be required, 15 at the 1.1 space per unit minimum. The applicant has provided a revised site plan 16 showing 16 spaces, increased over the original 11 spaces proposed. The applicant 17 contends that this supply will account for employee parking demand of 5 spaces, and 18 at least 10 or more visitor spaces during most days. The applicant has provided 19 additional information on parking supply at comparable projective to support the 20 proposed parking design. 21 2.22 Underground Parking – The code requires, subject to any variance waiver, that most 23 of the on-site parking is provided underground. The applicant is limited to just 16 24 surface spaces in part because impervious surface standards on this small parcel limit 25 further pavement for parking or other purposes, even with a variance of about 10% 26 over the standard/ If the building were elevated to provide an under-building parking 27 story, both parking supply and impervious coverage would be less of an issue. 28 29 Staff believes there may be reasonable grounds for variance consideration in this case, given that 30 the purpose of the underground (or under-building) parking is to limit surface parking and the 31 impervious surface that comes with it. In this case, there would still be a need for some surface 32 parking for visitors and transient employees, even if there were underground spaces available. In 33 this way, the underground requirement can be viewed as an unreasonable burden on the 34 otherwise reasonable use of the property. Staff believes that the 16-space parking supply would 35 be sufficient for nearly all conditions, with an occasional exception for a few high-demand 36 events such as Mother’s Day. 37 38 Mr. Grittman reviewed the Building Design and Materials, noting the R-4 District requirement: 39 40 The applicant for any multi-family structure in the R-4 District shall provide a proposed 41 materials palette, including a plan that shows brick, stone, glass, and architectural metal 42 on no less than 50% of all building walls. Architecture shall include significant 43 articulation in both wall facades and building roofline. 44 45 The building materials for this structure are primarily lapped metal siding and a wainscot of 46 simulated stone, as well as other stone elements around the main entry facing the parking area 47