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right? An office zoning touching a residential zoning on a street in an area where we think it's going to be developed in the future with the whole civic center plan, and I would hate to see this die because it's a little bit ahead of its time on the block. I'll just say that. Someone has to go first and frankly the neighbor who's building the front as the existing residence, the middle as the two-story and the back as a two-story as well, but the same units with the parking in the middle. It is exactly the transition type of building that I think we should have next to this because here you're doing your mixed use and residential and your next unit or block over is your true residential and it's a little lower. I just think it does blend well. I would hate to see us hit too high of a threshold to develop a site that would be unattainable. And I really like, and I don't know why I'm so stuck on it, but I really like the concept of the micro-units and if the parking killed it and you would change the application, I personally would find that a loss. Chair Ritter: And I'll agree. I think we need affordable housing downtown. Commissioner Balch: Well, this is super affordable because there's not much space. Chair Ritter: And that would be meeting that requirement. Commissioner Balch: I do think, and I don't want to state it per se, but I like the idea as Commissioner Allen brought up if the parking is such a concern, I like the idea of creating an additional on-site spot. I really do to address our concern with the mixed use. I don't know if we fully have addressed my comment about the mixed use being residential only though. I don't know if we were there. It sounded like maybe you were not there with them. I don't know, but I want to just continue to keep that because that's what it's all about. In staffs resolutions it basically says that the mixed use on Residence 1 shall be only non-residential. I completely want to add water or weight to what Commissioner Allen said; that if you keep it where it has to be office, it does put us over the 10%. I have a struggle with that requirement both ways. Commissioner Allen: Where do other people come out on Jack's last comment about requiring Residence 1 to have that office be office versus not? Where do you two come out on that? Chair Ritter: So if it is an office, you lose a space? Commissioner Nagler: Or you gain a space? Commissioner Balch: Well, in the workshop it was all residential and Commissioner Nagler and I were on the fence that said basically, we really like the design and staff recommended that maybe there's a mixed use solution that wouldn't necessarily tick over the odometer on another spot, right? Well, they designed it for that, but along came a requirement that it's not for residential use. It's got to be for an office or mixed use. Chair Ritter: They said it was flexible though. Commissioner Balch: Well not now because the condition would make it.... EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 17 of 21