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City Council Meeting Minutes December 10,2020 <br /> Commission to have option 1 and 2 as the requirement. <br /> 2. Property across the Street from a Sensitive Site: The recommendations <br /> includes three options that can be selected. The Planning and Zoning <br /> Commission and City Council discussed whether or <br /> not they liked option 3 (with the forecourt) and whether to leave it as an <br /> option. P&Z and Council liked option 1,2 and 3. <br /> Questions posed by the consultants: <br /> Next is to review, for property across the street from a sensitive site: whether to <br /> leave upper story setback at 10 feet or to increase it to 25 feet; this applies to <br /> third story and above. General consensus of the City Council and Planning <br /> Commission is to increase the step back from 01' to 25'. <br /> General consensus of the City Council and the Planning and Zoning <br /> Commission to leave option 3 in the recommendations. <br /> •Are you OK with an increase from 12' (existing code)to a 25' upper story <br /> step back after the third story as currently proposed in the recommendations? <br /> General consensus of the City Council and Planning Commission to increase <br /> the step back from 12' to 25'. <br /> The topics discussed next include: <br /> 1. Design Principles: discussed recommendations to add new principles <br /> regarding design excellence and other key themes heard throughout the <br /> outreach process. <br /> 2. Description of Context Areas: discussed edits to the purpose statement and <br /> renaming of design contexts. <br /> The Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council discussed concerns <br /> with the names of West Downtown and South Downtown and the general <br /> boundary of the University Edge/Downtown Core design context in the <br /> Hutchison Street/University Drive area. <br /> Questions posed by the consultants: <br /> • How many would like to see a different name (to be determined later and <br /> should not be called "Downtown") for South Downtown and to not be <br /> promoting that for development? General consensus of the City Council and <br /> the Planning and Zoning Commission to see a different name for South <br /> City of San Marcos Page 6 <br />