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I - Single-Family districts. They all currently contain single family homes. As you get closer to the Edison intersection, there are a lot more offices and businesses, as well as increased travel south along South Bend Avenue. The current proposal is for nine (9)townhomes. The building massing will have three (3) homes fronting along South Bend Avenue, with the remaining six (6) along Twyckenham. The buildings will stager to give the appearance of less massing. The first two (2) will be at least twenty (20) feet back from the property line. This is guaranteed in one (1) of the written commitments. The residential setbacks are a required twenty-five (25) feet, so we felt this was a good transition. In addition to the parking they provide with the garages,they are also proposing nine (9) visitor parking spaces on the east side of the site. Some buffering and landscaping, with a six (6) foot privacy fence will surround the property. This comes to you from the Plan Commission with a favorable recommendation, subject to the six (6)written commitments. In the Council Packet, all Council members received those commitments. Three (3) of these commitments would be land-use related commitments. One (1) deals with the setback of the first two (2) units. Rezoning this property to MF-1 - Urban Corridor allows for the development of the single-family townhomes and will provide a buffered transition from the University-related uses to the north and the single-family homes to the south. The strong urban design principles of the Northeast Neighborhood Zoning Overlay will ensure the development is appropriately integrated into the overall character of the neighborhood. Committee Chair Davis asked, Would we be able to accept those written commitments tonight? Interim Council Attorney ladean DeRose confirmed the ability to do that. Y tY Committee Chair Davis then asked, Will we be able to hear from residents of the Wooded Estates Neighborhood organization tonight? Mike Danch confirmed that there will be people at the meeting to speak on this legislation. Mr. Danch with Danch, Harper and Associates, 1643 Commerce Dr., stated, Basically this is right at the corner of South Bend Avenue and Twyckenham. What we would like to be able to do is build nine (9)townhomes on the site. The site itself is just under an acre. What they plan to do is build single-family attached homes. They would have to go through a subdivision process, assuming that we receive the go-ahead and get into the construction phase of the project. Each one (1) of these townhomes would sit on an individual lot. We have one (1) access point off of Twyckenham which is at the very south most point of the site. Behind and toward the east side of the building would be the excess driveways. Each unit would have a double-stall garage. The height of the building would be a maximum of forty (40) feet, from ground level to peak of roof. We are not asking for any variances and this is allowable under what we are asking for. One (1) thing we are agreeing to is to not have any buildings on the east side of the site. All of the buildings will be toward South Bend Avenue and Twyckenham Drive. It will be three (3) stories high. The market for the townhomes will provide roughly twenty percent (20%) owner- occupancy with the remaining eighty percent(80%)being people that would like to be close to Notre Dame, maybe graduate students. There are two (2) single-family houses on the property right now and those would obviously be removed. We want to preserve as many of the trees as possible. We are also hiring an arborist to take a look at the trees and give a full evaluation and recommendation for those. We will probably plant new trees too. We received a variance to have 2