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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 23, 2016 Page 26 rection to staff to initiate another action if the City Council so chose to initiate a text amendment and go through that process. City Attorney Gaughan clarified that specific findings for denial would need to be provide to the applicant as soon as possible, with a subsequent resolution inemo- rializing tonight's action. Councilmember Willmus withdrew his motion. Willmus moved, McGehee seconded DENIAL of the request allowing 50% impervious surface in LDR-2 zoning designations, based on the following findings: • That percentage of impe�vious cove�age would create an undesi�able amount of runoff,• • That percentage would be too limiting of sufficient green space between o� sur�ounding individual homes; and • That percentage would change the character of LDR-2 neighbo�hoods. Applicant: Golden Valley Land CO Representative Matt Pavek, Project De- veloper Mr. Pavek expressed appreciation to the City Council for their consideration of the motion. Mr. Pavek reviewed his firm's rationale in this request based on LDR-2 lot sizes of 6,000 square feet and the amount available for actual building. As noted in their narrative, Mr. Pavek noted experience working with builders having difficulty to have space available on that size lot to provide a two-car gar- age and two-stall driveway, in addition to any sizable or marketable main floor livable footprint, or any patio or sidewalk to the front door. Mr. Pavek noted the resulting homes would still be small modest homes, but with current constraints, the first floor living area became impractical. Mr. Pavek opined that this may have been an inadvertent error in drafting the original ordinance, advising that he had never seen similar constraints in other communities in which they work. Mr. Pavek aslced the City Council to simply allow for some flexibility in constructing a single-family home that worked on these lots, with a two-car garage. Specific to the drainage, Mr. Pavek reiterated past discussions on their project and planned infiltration basins as part of the project that would be upsized to handle the entire impervious surface on their parcels, while also picking up off-site up- stream drainage on Dale Street. After completion of the development, Mr. Pavek advised that the drainage would be better than current; and noted the stormwater engineering report had already been approved. Councilmember McGehee stated her same concern with not having green space around the homes; and note that the developer was aware of current city code be- fore going into this project and as indicated in the proposed homes being consid- ered for these parcels. Councilmember McGehee questioned how many empty