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REQUEST FOR PLANNING COMMISSIONACTION Agenda Date:11/2/2016 PH Agenda Item:6b UBLIC EARINGS Item Description:Request by City of Roseville to amend City Code Chapter 1004 (Residential Districts) to revise regulations pertaining to the quantity of built improvements allowed on properties in the LDR-2 zoning district (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 August2016,the City Council passed an ordinance increasing the amount of impervious 2 surfaces allowed on lots zoned LDR-2 from 30% to 35% and, while the amendment was being 3 considered, the Council directed Planning Division staff to initiate a further amendment of this 4 part of the code to reduce the amount of overall “improvement area’(i.e., development potential, 5 essentially) of LDR-2 lots.An excerpt of the August 22, 2016, City Council meeting minutes 6 detailing the discussion is included with this RPCA as Attachment A. 7 As contemplated in the zoning code, a property’s allowed improvement area is the amount of 8 built improvements permitted, regardless of whether those improvements are impervious or 9 otherwise. This is intended to limit the overall intensity of development on a property after it has 10 reached the permitted amount of impervious surfaces; decks, permeable patios or paths, arbors, 11 and so on are subject to the improvement area limit even if they are built in a way that isn’t 12 impervious. Planting beds and similar landscaped areas are not constrained by the improvement 13 area limit.The current zoning provision, approved in with the comprehensive zoning code update 14 in 2010, limits an LDR-2 property to 70% coverage by this kind of built improvements, and the 15 City Council instructed staff to lower that allowance to 50% to match the limit for LDR-1 16 properties. 17 The desire to further limit built improvements in the LDR-2 district was primarily discussed in 18 the context of lots for single-family, detached homes because the aesthetic expectations for 19 single-family neighborhoods are generally believed to include more “open” or “green” space than 20 neighborhoods of more-dense housing types. Single-family, detached homes are permitted 21 development types in three zoning districts, LDR-1, LDR-2, and MDR. Minimum lot sizes for 22 single-family, detached homes decrease across these districts,and the size of the homes is 23 PROJ0017-Improvement_Area-RPCA_20161102 Page 1of 3