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Multiple-Family Standards only recognize one style and orientation of parking courts and do not represent parking in urban infill. The size and dimensions of the site allow for more efficient parking with aisles in a north- south orientation and with clustered parking (not in a linear fashion as shown in 9.5500 diagrams). We propose smaller courts divided by islands that divide the courts perpendicular to drive aisles, in lieu of courts divided in the direction of the drive aisles. This allows for better distribution of trees and plantings throughout the parking lot, accomplishing the goals of the landscape standards (Encourage safe and efficient on-site circulation; improve the appearance and visual character, provide shade as a means of mitigating heat and exposure in parking lots and other paved areas). The project also proposes an underground parking garage that will provide approximately 60 parking spaces. The underground garage reduces the number of spaces required for the surface parking area and allows for more open space for the project. The underground parking serves the housing, and the surface parking serves both the commercial and residential uses. 2. Limitations on the size of individual parking lots in multiple-family development. The applicant proposed a design that creates more smaller courts, with more but smaller buffers, for an increase in trees, shade, and buffering of parking and neighbors. 3. Minimal negative aspects of parking uses in multiple-family developments. The applicant mitigates the negative aspects of parking by first placing up to 60 parking spaces below grade in a parking garage. The applicant also proposes to mitigate the negative aspects of parking uses through right sizing the parking court for the intended uses and in placing the amenity open space on the street sides of the building. The applicant proposes to allocate some of the parking court landscape buffer to the perimeter of the site as street frontage amenity space and as buffer to the adjacent property. The Interior Parking Area Landscaping requirements per 9.6420(3)(e) will be maintained in the final design. Where cost considerations preclude parking beneath or within residential buildings, combinations of partial and interrupted parking drives; on- street parking; and small, dispersed parking courts are an acceptable alternative. ADJUSTMENT #2: BUILDING LENGTH To provide ground floor units in a mixed-use building in the C-2 zone, the land use code requires adherence to Multi-Family Standards, Section 9.5500. Section 9.5500(2)(a): "...multiple family standards shall apply to all multiple family developments in all zones except commercial." This provision exempts multiple family developments from multiple family standards, but item (b) requires the standards when "Multiple family standards shall also apply to multiple family developments in commercial Page 3 of 4