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From: Grace Pollard To: BENC&TEAMSOUAREFOOT.COM; AFABELLACaSPIRITSOFTWARE.BIZ Dcc: Grace Pollard Subject: PLANNING DEPT. CORRECTIONS for B2204-003 5010 DOVER ST Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 2:41:00 PM Attachments: innaae002 DnD innaae001.Dna PLANNING COMMENTS on 5010 Dover Street (B2204-003)Ddf innaae003.DnD Good afternoon, This email is regarding your recent building permit application for 5010 Dover Street. Thank you for your application. I am a planner with the City reviewing your proposal against the Unified Development Code (Title 19) to ensure land use and zoning compliance. Please see below for additional information needed and or corrections required before Planning can approve your proposal. The subject property contains critical areas in the form of a creek and geologically hazardous slopes (unknown if wetlands are also present). Any proposed development or alteration to the subject property must be in conformance with the Critical Area regulations found in EMC 19.37. Based on permit history the subject property was constructed in 1987. Because the date of construction falls before the first Critical Area Ordinance was adopted into City code an exemption to the provisions of EMC 19.37 is available to you. However, this exemption requires that your proposed addition does not extend out into the critical area buffer more than the existing legally constructed structures on site, in this case, the deck (EMC 19.37.050.A.k). Without this exemption the critical area buffer for Phillips Creak continues up the slope well into the front of your property. When the minimum buffer for a stream extends into an area with a slope of greater than twenty-five percent (EMC 19.37.170.13) the buffer shall be increased. In this case the buffer shall be twenty-five feet beyond the point where the slope becomes twenty-five percent or less. Then to maintain the integrity of the buffer a building setback requirement is applied from the edge of buffer for ten feet (EMC 19.37.220.B). This would prohibit development on this property which is why we must utilize an exemption in code to permit your proposal. Additionally, the critical area regulations require assessments for properties containing or adjacent to critical areas. A geological report is required to be submitted and reviewed along with your construction drawings (EMC 19.37.070). If the project is feasible the construction of the addition must be built per any geotechnical recommendations found in the report. In addition to submitting a geo report please update the site plan showing where the slope is greater than 25% and show Phillips Creek. Please see the attached document for more code details.