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(the draft ordinance establishing the zone is provided in Attachment A-l). As required, the proposed Kaufman House Special Area Zone details the purpose of the zone, siting requirements, land use and permit requirements, development standards, lot standards, and adjustment review criteria. The S-HK Zone describes the historic status of the landmark property and acknowledges that both the Kaufman House structures and landscape, are significant historic features subject to historic property alteration requirements (refer to Attachment A-2 for Historic Property Alteration approval criteria). Future use of the Kaufman House Will be subject to land use code and building code requirements in addition to the provisions set out in the s.HK Zone. The practical effect of such requirements, and in particular historic property alteration and parking 'requirements, is that future use of the Kaufman House site Will be adaptive and, as a result,.limited in intensity. The uses listed in the S-HK Zone have been selected With consideration to compatibility With the surrounding neighborhood, significant historic features of the site, the policy direction found in the Metro Plan and Westside Neighborhood Plan.. and the feasibility of the use Within the existing structures given land use code and building code requirements' The existing senior center falls ~within the "Community and Neighborhood Center" category identified in the use table, and is permitted outright as a legally conforming use. In addition to Community and Neighborhood Center uses, the proposed s-HK Zone allows select residential, educational and cultural, office, neighborhood commercial and accessory uses. Most of the uses listed are permitted outright, With recognition that historic property alteration review requirements significantly constrain the ability to alt. er the structures or landscape for additional development or uses With greater, parking reqmrements. Conditional use permit approval is proposed in those cases where the conditional use permit approval criteria may afford a greater assUrance of compatibility With the surrourt, ding neighborhood than afforded by the historic property alteration review criteria.' TheEugene Code provides that before adopting an ordinance establiShing a S Special Area Zone, the City Council shall find that the proposal is in compliance with following criteria from EC 9.3020: (1) The area to which the S Special Area Zone is being applied meets at least one of the folloWing criteria: (a) Is identified in the Metro Plan or a refinement plan as appropriate for nodal development, or for a special range of uses or development that can best be achieved with the use of a special area zone; or (b) Possesses distinctive buildings or natural features that require special consideration to ensure appropriate development, preservation, or rehabilitation. In order to be considered distinctive, it must be demonstrated that: 1. The area is characterized by buildings that merit preservation in order to protect their special features; or 2. The area contains natural features that have been identified by the city as worthy of special treatment or preservation. (2) An analysis of the area demonstrates how the uses and development standards of the S Special Area zone ordinance will facilitate implementation of the planned use of the property or the preservation or rehabilitation of distinctive buildings or natural features of benefit to the community. (3) Except for areas zoned S-H Historic Special Areazone, the area to be classified S Special Area includes at least ~ acre in area. 3 3