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project,which includes materials and colors,building design and architecture, and deviations from ordinance standards. Comprehensive Plan The Comprehensive Plan guides the property for high-density residential uses within the FAST plan. The project complies with the comprehensive plan. Site Plan The project includes two residential buildings constructed along Zane Street,which will now end in a new cul-de- sac. The project area will be accessed via three driveways—one for each phase and one shared driveway between the two sites. The majority of surface parking is located between the street and the buildings and remainder of the parking is provided beneath the buildings. There are no improvements proposed below the bluff,but the existing stormwater pond will be improved and repaired. A sidewalk will also connect the site to the sidewalk along Zane Street. Parking Ordinance requires parking to be provided at 2.5 stalls/unit—one of which must be within a parking garage. The project includes at least one covered stall per unit but does not meet the standard for total parking. The deviation varies between phases but is above two-stalls/unit which has been approved in the past. The project also includes multiple encroachments into the required parking setbacks. Staff suggested a few changes to improve site access/circulation and snow storage for the newly proposed cul-de-sac. The setback encroachments can also be approved as part of the PUD process. Architecture The materials proposed for the project are consistent with requirements for apartment buildings throughout the city. The final design of the building will be refined as the project approaches permitting. The final design and color selection will be improved in the PUD agreement which will be approved by the city prior to permit issuance. Environmental Due to the location above the bluff along the Mississippi River there are additional requirements from the DNR. Any deviations can be approved through the PUD process. Requirements of concern include impervious surface limitations, bluff setback encroachments, and building height. Impervious surfaces are proposed at 26.7% - or 1.7% over the limit of 25%. Ordinance includes a 30-foot buffer from the top of a bluff, the proposed fire-lanes will be removed, eliminating a majority of the encroachment concerns,but there are still a few encroachments from parking and drive lanes. Applicable Regulations Zone Change The property is consistent with the guidance from the Comprehensive Plan and Focused Area Study,both of which guide the property for high-density residential uses. The project is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Conditional Use Permit In approving a Conditional Use Permit,the council may impose such specific conditions with regard to the development or operation of the proposed use as it considers necessary to satisfy the seven standards set forth in Section 30-654 and the requirements contained in this article and to promote compatibility with and minimize any potentially adverse effects upon adjacent properties, the neighborhood or the city.