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Planning commission backs 0.45 FAR to replace prior unit-mix table, approves senior-housing bonus
Summary
After hearings and public comment, the Los Altos Hills Planning Commission voted unanimously April 22 to recommend replacing its unit-mix/table entry with a 0.45 floor-area-ratio for multifamily zoning and to add a 0.05 FAR incentive for senior housing, directing staff to carry the change to council and to continue negotiations with HCD.
The Los Altos Hills Planning Commission voted April 22 to replace the multifamily unit-mix table in its April 13 recommendation with a single floor-area-ratio requirement of 0.45 and to convert the prior senior-housing incentive into a 0.05 FAR bonus (raising the incentive to 0.50 FAR). The change was put forward by a commissioner motion, seconded, and approved on a roll-call vote with all commissioners recorded as voting yes.
The action follows a staff and consultant presentation explaining the trade-offs between an FAR standard and a prescriptive unit-mix. Consultant Dan Wherry told the commission that a FAR is a familiar, simple standard and that the same relationship between dwelling units per…
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