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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,November 28, 2022 Page 8 e. Consider a Resolution Approving a Conditional Use Request to Allow Resi- dential Density Greater Than 24 Dwelling Units Per Acre in Support of a Pro- posed Apartment Project Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated November 28, 2022. Mayor Roe wanted to touch on the impact related to traffic and the fact that there was a traffic study done in 2016, when there was another proposal being looked at by the City and it appears that the analysis from the Engineering Department is that the impact of the potential eighty-six units that could be built is significantly lower than the two hundred fifty units scenario that was looked at with the traffic study. He thought the original traffic study did not recommend any geometric changes to the Albert Street/County Road B intersection,such as a signal or anything like that, different than what is there now or even lane configuration changes or turn lanes. So certainly,with fewer trips per day from a smaller number of units,none of those potential changes to that intersection would be required with this as well. Mr. Lloyd explained that was correct, noting that during the conversation at the Planning Commission about the traffic and its potential impacts,one thing staff did not know at that meeting, the City Engineer has since clarified and it is part of the memo mentioned. The background traffic in this area has not risen since the 2016 study. Even though there are reduced trips,people were not entirely sure that traffic wouldn't still be a problem if background traffic had risen substantially since then but since the background traffic is about the same and potential trips far fewer than what the study analyzed, the study remains valid with the recommendation of no changes or improvements necessary would hold. Councilmember Strahan asked what is the total acreage of this space? Mr. Lloyd explained the site is about two acres. Councilmember Strahan stated on this proposed alignment, she did not see any pro- posed greenspace at all and wondered if the City had any requirements on green space in an HDR environment. Mr. Lloyd indicated there are requirements but he did not have the figure off hand for that. Rather than having a green space requirement per se, it is regulated the other way around and limits the amount of improvement which is typically imper- vious coverage on properties like this. He reviewed the proposed plan with the Council. Councilmember Strahan indicated there is no children's play area or anything like that. Certainly, those thirty-eight feet has busy traffic on County Road B with a bus stop and bank drive-through just to the east of that so she did not see it would be useable as child space. Yet, some of these configurations of spaces seem like