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Resolution No. 2534 - Authorizing temporary trailer for office of PeoPfe's Bank at northeast corner of Broadway and Pearl for 18 months was read by number and title. It. ,,~ Mr. Haws moved second by Mrs. Beal to adopt the resolution. Mot ion carri ed unanimously. C. Appeal from Zoning Board of Appeals denial of variance for duplex at 388& Robin Street (James & Company for Carl Petersen) Variance denied by the Zoning Board on May 27, 1976. Mr. Haws moved second by Mrs. Beal to refer the appeal to Assessment Panel for hearing on August 2, 1976. Motion carried unanimously. D. Revision of Planned Unit Development Regulations I-A-2 Manager noted the proposed revisions were the result of Planning Commission and special committee study for about two years. He asked Gary Chenkin, assistant planning director, to review the proposed changes recommended by the Commission on April 26, 1976 and covered in Planning staff notes and minutes of that date, previously distributed to the Council. Mr. Chenkin reviewed in detail the proposed changes in regulations, saying they would still provide for a three-step process in consideration of planned unit developments: (1) Pre-preliminary or diagrammatic, offering careful review of off-site impact; (2) Preliminary, relating to on-site considerations such as topography, vegetation, street/walkway layout, etc; (3) Final or technical, which would include review of engineering and development of details to ensure their correspondence to what was approved in the first two steps. A major e modification, he said, was use of a density point system based on bedroom count rather than dwelling units, which would more accurately indicate the number of .....- people anticipated to live in a development. Mr. Chenkin reviewed statistics based on the anticipated use of the density p~int count, also detailed in plan- ning staff notes. Also presented were changes in the code related to planned unit developments, mostly housekeeping measures except one amendment, which would add site review criteria and special criteria oriented to erR provisions to be met before approval. This was proposed to avoid the cumbersome process of going through both conditional use and planned unit development procedures, and allow consideration by a hearings official rather than the Commission. Finally, Mr. Chenkin said the proposed changes also involve two resolutions, one that would translate dwelling units per acre to density points per acre in the South Hi 11 s , the other that would adjust fees for PUDs because of difference in time allqcated in processing under the new procedure. Public hearing was opened. Richard Unruh, member of the PUD committee of the Homebuilders Association, ex- pressed the Association's general concurrence in the proposal as presented. He expressed one reservation, covered in a letter from the Association which he presented to the Council, about the numbers finally affixed to the various build- ing types in the density point system. He said the concept was approved, but it was felt the results gave more density than there should be. Public hearing was closed, there being no further testimony presented. -- In response to Mr. Unruh, Mr. Chenkin said that in figuring the point allocation, ....../ an attempt was made to keep the maximum as close as possible to the average PUDs encountered to date. He said the Homebuilders want a different figure in the three- and four-bedroom units, particularly where the Commission has already re- 7/26/76 -- 2 3~'i