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Amos: Yes, if you take it at the code. <br /> Commissioner Allen: Thank you. <br /> Chair Ritter: Okay, let's open it up to the applicant. If anyone wants to speak, I have four <br /> speaker cards including the applicant. Mike Carey. Mr. Carey thanks for doing the <br /> workshop. Thanks for taking the time and going through that process. <br /> THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. <br /> Mike Carey, Applicant: Thank you. Thank you for all of the workshop discussions. I just <br /> wanted to address a couple of things real quick on Commissioner Allen's discussion of <br /> the historic parts as far as the metal and things like that. I'm a little bit confused, so I <br /> want to clarify that. I think the historic ordinance that went through everything was for <br /> the historic homes and that's different than new construction and what we're open for <br /> interpretation for. Is that correct? <br /> Beaudin: Adam and I were just discussing that. It's residential development downtown <br /> period. <br /> Mike Carey, Applicant described the scope, layout, and key elements of the application. <br /> Commissioner Nagler: On the parking question Commissioner Allen raised, what are <br /> your thoughts about that? <br /> Carey: I mean, we really vetted the parking heavily when we were here last time. <br /> Parking is the big issue. We worked really hard to make it all work. We thought we <br /> nailed it. At the end before the workshop, we realized that technically the studios are <br /> burdened with two parking spaces per studio whether they are 100-square-foot studios <br /> or 300-square-foot studios like they are. They are tiny studios, so for me to stick to a <br /> rule of an Office zoning that we're in the middle of potentially changing to C-C, the <br /> properties next door have the Core Overlay which only have to do one, so everyone <br /> around us has to do one. The front pieces have to do two for studio and then we talked <br /> about the reality of the code allowing us to go up to four, five, six-bedroom for two <br /> spaces. So Tim could flip it to two, two-bedroom units and we only have to figure out <br /> four spaces. But three micro-mini studios are up for six. I don't think it's reasonable. I <br /> think it needs to be figured out by staff and the code amendments we're doing. Also our <br /> discussion in the workshop was if we converted the front use, which we're really sticking <br /> to residential on, into a commercial office use, you guys were kind of torn and all the <br /> minutes say we could probably work with you and if you work on Residence 1, we could <br /> maybe not hit you up for the extra parking space. That was in all of our minutes, in our <br /> discussions, heavily vetted so we're hoping that because we modified it to make it a flex <br /> space that we could stick with not an additional space for it. <br /> We also talked that we want the market to kind of dictate that space. So whether that's <br /> a house and somebody buys it and they want their home office there like we all do at <br /> our house, or they really want to put a sign up and call it "Tim's Architecture" I want it to <br /> be whatever the market demands, right? So we don't want to mandate it micro into a <br /> sense that it has to be this so therefore if you have a home office in your house, you <br /> EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 4 of 21 <br />