Application for the - City of Sunnyvale - State of California

2012-7450 – St. Anton 1101 N. Fair Oaks Avenue
Attachment A (CC)
Page 3 of 3
Community Design Sub-element
Policy C.4: Encourage quality architectural design, which improves the City’s
identity, inspires creativity, and heightens individual as well as
cultural identity.
2. The proposed use attains the objectives and purposes of the General Plan
of the City of Sunnyvale. (Finding Met).
The proposed project meets the goals and policies of the General Plan as
listed above by creating 97 residential units that promote housing goals
for the community. The project also meets the policy for a minimum 75%
of the allowable density for the zoning district. The proposed project will
provide an addition of 97 dwelling units to the City’s housing stock.
3. The proposed use ensures that the general appearance of proposed
structures, or the uses to be made of the property to which the
application refers, will not impair either the orderly development of, or
the existing uses being made of, adjacent properties. (Finding Met)
The proposed project maximizes the allowable density and proposes an
alternative dwelling unit type for the immediate area. The project only
requires a front and left side setback deviations, although the proposed
design meets the intent of the setback requirements. The conversion of
the use to residential is consistent with the current General Plan land
use designation and Zoning. The site layout adequately buffers the
proposed development from adjacent uses through siting of parking
areas and massing of the structure. The project has been designed to
complement the existing developments by use of massing and
architectural patterns and matching building heights even at a higher
density.