3. BUILDING INTENSITY: The Shopoff proposed stacked flat residential buildings have underground parking to allow more land use intensity and building mass. The proposed buildings run in a fairly contiguous cluster west of the railroad right-of-way from Avenida Encinas north to Ponto Storage.
· Shopoff’s proposed residential square footage [not including any balconies, private recreation or ancillary buildings] is 247,100 square feet total in 3 stories at 40 feet high (82,000 sq ft per story).
· For reference the Carlsbad Costco building is about 115,500 square feet in 1 story at 35 feet high. So Shopoff’s proposed residential building footprint is approximately 72% of the Carlsbad Costco, though it would be 5 feet higher than Costco.