Morano asks whether amendment creates qualifying site status
Council Member Morano introduces himself, says the application is largely corrective, and asks whether any property would gain qualifying site status; Todorovic says none are qualifying residential sites and they cannot obtain zoning bonuses or relief.
Councilman Murano.
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Can you hear me?
Yes.
Hello, Councilmember.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you for the presentation.
Thank you, Chair, for your leadership of this committee.
Councilmember, do you have questions for this panel?
I do.
I do.
So, you know, for people that don't know, I'm Councilmember Frank Morano, and this application involves properties within my district in the special South Richmond Development District.
And as I understand it, the purpose of this amendment, as the folks mentioned, is largely corrective.
It seeks to address mapping and record-keeping discrepancies involving designated open space.
And I'm generally supportive of correcting errors that have created unnecessary complications for homeowners.
But I also want to make sure that a technical correction doesn't unintentionally create new development rights or other consequences that were never intended.
So the community board raised concerns that some properties could potentially be treated as qualifying sites under this proposal.
Can you explain whether this amendment would cause any property to obtain qualifying site status that it doesn't have today?
And if so, what additional development rights would come with that designation?
That's a great question.
And to your point, we did discuss this with the community.
We do have to admit that during referral,
There was some confusion, and we did clean that up after the community board referral was submitted.
So you might see...
A little discrepancy in the community board's referral based on incorrect information we had provided.
But after confirming with our zoning division and also with our other internal divisions, none of these sites are qualifying residential sites.
They cannot obtain any zoning bonuses or zoning relief from the qualifying residential site text.
This would simply allow for the DOS area to be carved out, the 60 feet dimension for site one that Kari noted, the 50 by 90 foot
volume that Kari noted for site two, and the five foot, the small five foot dimension for site three.
And that would just allow the reorientation of the building.
No additional FAR, no additional typologies or height.
So these sites are not QRS.
To be QRS, they would need to be on a wide street.
You can ask DOT whether or not they're going to widen the street, but that is something outside of this application.