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Commissioner Nagler: Retail, mixed use, residential, potentially a small movie theater, restaurants, entertainment. Commissioner Allen: So we don't know. I mean if it's retail then do we want to turn property across the street which is office into residential or is it better to consider it for retail? I mean, we don't know which way it's going to go. Commissioner Nagler: No, we don't have any idea. Commissioner Allen: Do you know in terms of where it's going? Commissioner Balch: We'll keep it to this item. Chair Ritter: Okay, so let's hear from the applicant. We have Mike Carey and after that we have a speaker card from Tim Ward. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Mike Carey — Applicant: Tim is the architect so he can kind of jump in with me. Thanks everybody. Staff has been awesome to work with. Tim designed the Starbuck's downtown so we're really excited to work with him because he has some great ideas and concepts on mixed use and he's done a lot of projects in Lafayette and kind of all of the surrounding towns. We're super excited from where we started and how we evolved. We started with Gerry and we started out with live/work on site. We brought in three live/work units and I believe two or three houses? Tim Ward: Two. Carey: The live/work was a great idea but we kind of explored and we talked to Gerry and we figured they'd probably move into the units and never work there. We were ahead of ourselves and we are not quite Berkeley and all that, but we started with that a little bit. And then we started changing the plans. Tim came up with studios on top which I thought was a great idea because everybody's looking to downsize, looking for smaller units, cheaper units, the affordability in towns and we're trying to play with what staff wanted which was office, office, office. It's zoned office, and I'll fall back on that discussion about the zoning and how that kind of feel fits in or not. So we designed everything and Tim came up with the office building of 900 square feet on the bottom with the three units on top and three houses. We do have two separate driveways so we don't have to make any curb cuts or lose any street parking. There's an Augustine entrance which would enter for the office and the three studios and there's an Old Bernal entrance which would enter for the three houses. We also stepped the houses away from the other house. The driveway on the west side is bordering the house. The neighbors like that. The house is sort of away from them. Then he kind of clustered the houses. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 5 of 22