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property lines with a landscape buffer. EC 9.2750 requires structures to be setback five feet from interior property lines or ten feet between buildings. The applicant seeks modifications to these code standards through the PUD process. Staff notes that if the Hearings Official easement from the abutting property owne approval criterion EC 9.8320(11)(k), in the following evaluation. Summary of Land Use Applications Tentative PUD The applicant requests tentative Planned Unit Development (PUD) approval for the creation of a co-housing residential facility, with 28 dwelling units within seven buildings arranged around a community building. Staff found that the community building includes bedrooms and a kitchen; therefore, it is also considered a dwelling unit included in the residential density of the subject property. The applicant indicates that the dwelling units will be divided as condominiums for private ownership, whereas the land and community building will be commonly owned and managed by a homeowners association. EC 9.2740 Residential Zone Land Use and Permit Requirements confirm that PUD approval is required for multiple-family (three or more dwellings on the same lot) development in the R-1 zone. The PUD process allows for a review of the specific location, design and intensity of a proposed multiple-family development in the R-1 zone to determine, among other things, whether the development is reasonably compatible with adjacent and nearby land uses. Multiple-family development is also required to meet specific development standards at EC 9.5500, which establish design regulations, such as building mass, orientation, and articulation. At the same time, the PUD process allows for design flexibility, if the design meets the PUD purpose statements at EC 9.8300, which are intended to achieve flexibility in architectural design, clustering of buildings, and providing for economy of shared services and facilities. Accordingly, the applicant seeks several modifications to development code standards through the PUD process. The PUD approval criteria at EC 9.8030 are evaluated in the following staff analysis. Willamette Greenway Permit The property is within the Willamette Greenway boundary, which requires Willamette Greenway (WG) permit approval prior to development. (Refer to Attachments A and B for a depiction of the adopted Willamette Greenway boundary the area in which WG permit approval is required for intensification, change of use or development according to EC 9.8805.) The Willamette River is located about 243 feet to the east of the subject property, according to survey prepared by Poage Engineering & Surveying, Inc. (See Attachment D-1.) The land between the river and the subject property is owned by the City, as an undeveloped natural resource area that contains /WR Water Resource (Goal 5) conservation areas. In this area (outside Willakenzie Area Refinement Plan which has an adopted WG setback distance from the river of 35 feet), and in accordance the WG permit approval criteria Hearings Official Decision (PDT 13-1, WG 13-1) 5