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Carey: Could I just say, I talked to him because he's the neighbor. He, I think in fairness, he had a couple of ideas going on and he did a workshop and when he came to the Planning Commission, I don't know if he had a 40-foot one or not, but he had a three-story one, a two- story one, so he had two or three different plans and so his zoning district is 40 feet next door. You can have a 10-plex next door at 40 feet. Here we're only zoned 0 so it's a little mixed match on our zoning and specific plan mixes, but I don't think they wanted to see 40 feet because we don't have 40 feet except for the Rose Hotel and buildings on Main, but I think the Planning Commission—because I read the minutes too and I wasn't there for the workshop— he had two or three ideas and he told me on the phone, "I love your project. It looks great. Pretty much I'm going to vent that I didn't get what I wanted." I think he did but I think he didn't have his plans lined up. He had three options and I think you guys blended it into one. Chair Ritter: Yes, we had that before you were on the Commission, so, thank you. I think staff could answer more. Great, thank you Mr. Carey. So we'll close the public hearing and we'll bring it back to the Commission. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Chair Ritter: This is a workshop so no decisions are made. We're just exploring ideas. We're going to answer these questions. Could you please, before we go through these, just explain what makes this a workshop? I always ask this question. Why did we have to go through a workshop for the record? Weinstein: So all major downtown projects involving new construction go through workshops and all projects involving legislative changes throughout the city, like changes in General Plan land use designation or zoning go through workshops. Chair Ritter: Great, all right. Commissioner Balch: I apologize, but one other quick question I wanted to bring up is, has staff had a proposal to adjust resident one to a mixed use building as well? Amos: In this slide? Commissioner Balch: Yes. Amos: So we did have conversations with the applicant about that being an alternative as well. Commissioner Balch: How did that go over? Amos: We're presenting the project before you with one mixed use building. Commissioner Balch: Okay, my question to this is wouldn't this mixed use then increase the parking requirement significantly? Amos: It could, depending on the square footage you have on the ground floor. Commissioner Balch: Presumably, you'd almost do the exact same square footage and you have nine and you already had two, so you need seven more in-lieu. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 9 of 22