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General Plan Excerpt Per Comment Protect Consistent General Plan designation of the area as a gateway to the City. The proposed project's multifamily uses and 90-foot minimum building setback with trees along the site boundary would provide a transition between the low density single-family residential development to the east and south and the higher density commercial/office uses along N. Main Street. In comparison to the existing vacant office building, the proposed residential uses, open space courtyards, and landscaping would support the residential character of the Park Santiago area, while supporting the General Plan gateway designation and existing urban development along Main Street. Policy 3.5: Encourage new development and/or As described previously, the project is sited along the additions to existing development that are compatible in Main Street corridor and would provide modern scale, and consistent with the architectural style and architecture that is consistent with the adjacent character of the neighborhood. buildings along Main Street. The project also includes design measures, such as courtyards, setbacks, lower building heights on the east side of the site, and architectural treatments to provide a residential character toward the existing single-family residential areas. Although, resulting in a higher density and intensity development than the adjacent single-family residences, the project is consistent along N. Main Street and the design includes: increasing the existing wall height to 8-feet, retention of most of the mature trees and installation of new trees on the eastern portion of the site to screen views, provision of a 90-foot minimum building setback and provision of a residential character that does not currently exist on the project site. Policy 5.2: Protect the community from incompatible As described in Draft EIR Section 4.7, Land Use and land uses. Planning, the project would provide multi -family residential units along the N. Main Street urban multi- use corridor and adjacent to single-family residential uses. Although the project would result high density residential next to low density residential land uses, the existing single-family residential area would no longer be adjacent to an office use, but a more compatible (although higher in density) residential use. In addition, the single-family lots adjacent to the project site would be buffered by an 8-foot high masonry wall, tall landscaping, and a 90-foot minimum building setback. Also, the access to the site would be from N. Main Street, keeping vehicular noise and emissions from adjacent residential single-family land uses. Thus, the project would not result in incompatible land uses. Generally, incompatible land uses occur from siting 10 11A-118