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REQUEST FOR PLANNING COMMISSIONACTION Agenda Date:8/3/2016 PH Agenda Item:5b UBLIC EARING Item Description:Request to amend City Code Chapter 1004 (Residential Districts) to revise regulations pertaining to building footprints and paved surfaces on parcels in the low-density residential zoning districts (PROJ0017) AI PPLICATIONNFORMATION Applicant:City of Roseville Property Owner:N/A Open House Meeting:N/A Application Submission:N/A City Action Deadline:N/A LCDD-M EVEL OF ITY ISCRETIONIN ECISIONAKING legislative Action taken on a proposed zoning change is in nature; the City has broad discretion in making land use decisions based on advancing the health, safety, and general welfare of the community. ZAA ONINGMENDMENTNALYSIS 1 In May2016, prompted by a zoning amendment application, Planning Division staff had begun 2 evaluating the allowance ofbuilding footprints and paved surfaces onparcels used for 3 development of single-family detached homes.This evaluation revealed that the allowance for 4 the LDR-2 district was inadvertently much more restricted than for single-family home parcels in 5 the LDR-1 and MDR zoning districts. The proposed zoning amendment noted above would have 6 allowed 50% coverageof parcelsin the LDR-2 district; whilethe City Council was 7 uncomfortable with such a large percentage and ultimately denied the application, staff was 8 instructed to evaluate smaller increases and return with an alternative amendment that would 9 have smaller potential adverse impacts yet still allow greater development of parcels in the LDR- 10 2 district. 11 Given the additionaltime to consider an amendment to what might generally be called “hard 12 coverage” regulations, Planning Division and Engineering staff have been working toward a 13 different approach. The hard coverage regulations are intended to address storm water runoff; 14 while limiting hard coverage (i.e., “paved surfaces and building footprints”) is generally an 15 effective way to control storm water runoff, it fails to recognize permeable paving options. This 16 was an intentional approachto the regulation in 2010, despite itsfailures, because Roseville had 17 not yet developed an effective method of monitoring the maintenance and effectiveness of 18 permeable pavements and other storm water BMPs over time. Since then, the Public Works 19 Department has instituted a range of regulatory tools to facilitate storm water management on 20 residential properties. These expanded and refined tools provide the opportunity to more 21 specifically regulate for impervious surfaces (rather than hard surfaces) in the LDR-1 district as 22 well as the LDR-2 district, where this discussion really began. The proposed draft ordinance is 23 PROJ0017-Improvement_Area-RPCA_20160803 Page 1of 3