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Applicant’s Written Statement - Lincoln Commons Site Review 3 ability in the context of this formal approval process and limited scope of the applicable Site Review approval criteria. The applicant also expects that the City’s Type II public notice requirements at EC 9.7210 for this Site Review, including formal notice via mailings to nearby owners and occupants, along with on-site signage required to share details about the process and proposed affordable housing project, will help to engage with any interested parties that may not already be aware of the project. The applicant welcomes this interest as part of the approval process for this critical affordable housing project. Findings of Compliance - Site Review Approval Criteria & Related Development Standards Site Review approval for the applicant’s request is required due to the existing S-W/SR zoning of the subject property, which includes a Site Review (/SR) overlay zone (see EC 9.8430 for Site Review Applicability). In this case, development of the new multi-unit apartment building along with associated site improvements on a vacant site triggers Site Review under EC 9.8430(1)(a). The applicant notes that while the /SR Overlay was originally added based upon adopted Whiteaker Refinement Plan policies at the time of zone change and plan adoption back in the 1990’s, and the applicant is following those procedures under existing local code, that the process itself represents a duplicative, time-consuming and expensive undertaking that does not appear to provide any more discernable benefit of review than would a normal building permit according to applicable standards. The applicant genuinely appreciates the context- sensitive intent of that adopted plan and policies for this mixed-use area and thus presents its plan for Site Review approval to the City, even though it represents a barrier to affordable housing projects like the one proposed here which is desperately needed to meet the City’s housing needs now and into the future. The applicant is therefore seeking Site Review approval using only clear and objective standards and criteria in this case under local code. The applicant, accordingly, reserves the right to challenge any subjective or value-laden interpretations or requirements of local code that may go beyond the confines of statutory limits on the review of this “needed housing” proposal. The process itself may very well constitute “unreasonable cost and delay” as that term is used in needed housing statutes but is not the focus of this initial request and would require local legislative change to address. The applicant’s focus here is therefore only “as applied” in the context of the current application and local clear and objective standards used to review the request for Site Review approval in this instance. As important background for this request, the applicant also relies on an existing Adjustment Review approval recently granted by the City (ARA 25-29) for applicable development standards related to maximum building height and dwelling unit density, bicycle parking and other multi- family standards like façade articulation and window coverage. That existing approval remains effective and serves as one key basis for the applicant’s confidence in moving forward with the project, according to the “Statutory Adjustments” now available for virtually all new housing projects under Oregon Senate Bill (SB) 1537 which has yet to be locally codified. References to the applicant’s existing Adjustment Review approval are included in the following findings,