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MEMORANDUM December 8, 2004 Page 6 Willamette Garden Apartments. It appears that the Willamette Gardens Apartments proposal does not include an accessway. Therefore, the subject property would need to include the 2 required accessways. It is Nathan's understanding that the Willamette Gardens Apartment had initially intended to provide an accessway through the southern most parking aisle. However, City Staff noted that in order to meet the Multiple-Family Standards parking court requirements, the northern property owner added a demountable curb so that there is no longer access through this parking aisle. It also appears that the Willamette Garden Apartment proposed driveway entrance to this southern most parking aisle is located closer than 100'-0" to the adjacent access easement driveway. Therefore, it is probable that they will have to relocate their driveway or the easement will need to be relocated to comply with the 100~-0~ required between driveways. We discussed the City's ability and willingness to adjust the parking court requirements (EC 9.5500(12)) for the southern most parking aisle on the northern property, which is allowed per EC 9.8030(8)(0. The purpose of this code adjustment would be to potentially locate the access easement in this location. City Staff was open to receiving an Adjustment Review application for this code adjustment at any time including after the commencement or completion of the construction of the Willamette Garden Apartment project. The applicant would need to approach the owner of the northern property to negotiate these details (develop TIA proving 90 degree parking is viable, submittal of an Adjustment Review application, relocation of the access easement to the northern property, removal of the demountable curb and redevelopment of the parking aisle). There is the potential that the northern property owner might be motivated to work with the applicant considering that they had originally intended this parking aisle to be a through drive between Garden Way and Marche Chase Drive. In addition, this solution will remedy the conflict that the northern property owner's driveway for the southern most parking aisle is located less than 100'-0" from the existing access easement. If the applicant would like to relocate the easement, as stated under #4 above, the applicant will need to submit a Vacation of an Unimproved Public Easement (PUE) application to move the existing easement. As long as the function of the accessway is met, the applicant will not be required to amend any of the relevant planning documents. The applicant will need to make findings in the Vacation of an Unimproved Public Easement (PUE) application