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Natalie's idea at one point on our third or fourth revision was to stretch the houses out and pull them apart so they're not so close and so they are wider with more space around them and then we decided to make the office look more office-like and more commercial. So Tim kind of tweaked it, pulled it forward, gave it some outside seating in the front, raised the ceiling plates and all of the transom windows made the ceilings higher and kind of turned the building. That got us our magic missing parking spot. So all along we were under the illusion that we nailed the parking and nailed the height. From our last project with Brian Bowers the feedback was to keep it under 30 feet. We heard that loud and clear from everybody. So they are 29'8". Tim Ward: 29'10" and I think one is 30' to the peak. Carey: 29'11" are the heights. So we thought we nailed the parking. The parking for our neighbor next door is one space per studio. We're in the Core Area Overlay district which carries through the whole downtown so we share that same right to do cool stuff, core overlay, a little flexibility, but the 0 zoning kind of clips us a little bit. We're ready to debate that though. We have 0 zoning and now we need two spaces per studio. So we can have two spaces per two-bedroom, three-bedroom, four-bedroom, five-bedroom. Is it up to seven bedrooms? Is that right? For the apartments? Amos: Yes. Carey: So technically, by right, we could have a seven bedroom apartment on top and we need two spaces. So to me, the zoning and where we're at on this parcel defies common sense if we're trying to do three studios, we're trying to get a new type of housing downtown. For our neighbor he only needs one space which we have. For us, technically because we're in the 0 zone, we need six spaces but we could put a giant apartment up top of seven bedrooms and would need two spaces, so just kind of a weird twist on the whole examination of the rules and what we have been going through with our research. We still want to stick with the three studios. We'd like to go with the Core Area Overlay district which allows us one space per studio, and I just wanted to jump in on the map. Could you show the map of the downtown again; the purple zones? So you're seeing the purple as Office. Well, the Old Bernal piece is truly zoned 0 (Office). The whole Peters Street, which you guys did the project for Brian Bowers and the 377—that is zoned C-C but overlaid to O. So it doesn't have 0 zoning which the piece that we're working on tonight does. So those sites are zoned C-C but they have an overlay to 0, which the intention was to soften the blow for the neighborhood maybe, but then I question when they do the Specific Plan again, why the whole First Street that faces Express Liquors and Specialty Sales and all of that—that faces a residential district and that goes straight to C-C. So why do we only want to buffer the west neighbors a little bit and overlay to 0 but leave the east neighbors out of this. To point out, all the other purples; Ray Street and everything you're seeing as purple, the true zoning is still C-C. They either PUD'd it to 0 or they built 0, but their right by law is C-C zoning which is what we'd like this site to have. I have some paperwork for you guys. It's just something from the Pleasanton Downtown Association and I'll hand out a couple of things real quick and then I'll let Tim jump in. The PDA recommended what direction they'd like to see on the site. Then I talked to the neighbor next door too which is the big white building. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 6 of 22