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Planning Commission adopts low-rise objective design standards with 25% material-change requirement and allowance for clerical edits
Summary
The Planning Commission unanimously adopted objective design standards for 1'4 family and 1'3 story multifamily housing, adding a clarification excluding egress-only exterior staircases, a National Register/Secretary of the Interior standards note, and a new subsection requiring a secondary material on at least 25% of non-fenestrated street-facing front facades; staff were authorized to make non-substantive edits.
The Oakland Planning Commission voted unanimously on June 18 to adopt objective design standards (ODS) for 1'4 family dwellings and 1'3 story multifamily residential and mixed-use buildings, adding minor clarifying language and a new material-change requirement intended to reduce blank street-facing facades.
Ruslan Filippo, planner 4 with Strategic Planning, told the commission staff made two clarifying, non-substantive edits since the June 4 hearing: a note to standard 2.4.2 clarifying that the standard does not restrict exterior staircases used solely for egress to interior corridors, and a change to standard 5.2 to specify that National Register…
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