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File Index Number DZ -09-99 Concurrently with File Index Number DT -28-99 July 27, 1999 Page 3 ANALYSIS: GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY The General Plan designation of the project site is Low Density Residential. The purpose of this designation is to encourage single family suburban developments in detached dwellings. The uses in this designation are limited primarily to single family dwellings on individual lots with a minimum lot size of 7,200 square feet. The General Plan establishes a target density of four single family dwelling units per acre in the Low Density designation. However, it also provides for a density range of up to eight (8) dwelling units per acre. The General Plan includes special land use designations that serve to provide for tailored planning of areas requiring more than the traditional approach of standard zoning regulations. The Planned Community development designation is one of the special land use designations included in the General Plan. According to the General Plan, the purpose of the PC designation, "...is to encourage sustained growth and investment by minimizing governmental constraints, providing for design flexibility, higher quality of improvements, and/or minimizing constraints to land use location." It is staff's opinion that the request for a zone change (DZ -09-99) is consistent with the intent and guidelines of the General Plan. If the zone change is approved by the City Council, the proposed Tentative Tract #16019 (DZ -28-99) is also determined to be consistent with the General Plan. ZONING CONSISTENCY The zoning classification of the project site is R-1, which is Single Family Residential. According to the Zoning Ordinance (Title 18 of the Colton Municipal Code), the R-1 zone, "...is intended to provide for the development of single-family dwellings on urban size lots, not more than one such dwelling on each lot..." The development standards for the R-1 zone establishes a minimum lot area of 7,200 square feet, and minimum lot dimensions of 60 feet in width and 100 feet in depth. If the proposed zone change (DZ -09-99) is approved by the Planning Commission, and subsequently approved by the City Council, the PC (Planned Community) designation would be added to the R-1 (Single Family Residential) land designation, thereby establishing special designated development standards for the proposed project. The proposed Tentative Tract #16019 (DT -28-99) includes the special designated development standards which include, but are not limited to, minimum lot area of 4,200 square feet (average lot area of 4,700 square feet), and typical lot dimensions of 48 feet in width and 94 feet in depth. Approval of the zone change and Tentative Tract #16019, would make the proposed projects consistent with the Zoning Ordinance.