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Beaudin: Can I just ask a clarifying question. So, on page A-4 in your plans; if you look at the lower floor plan in the top right corner of that page. Amos: Just to clarify, there's two exhibits—Exhibit B and Exhibit B-1. I think Gerry is referring to Exhibit B. Beaudin: Okay, I'm going to talk a little bit more about what staff had in mind when we talked about live/work or at least some commercial/office space fronting Old Bernal. So this building—what you're seeing as the large square on that; this is the floor plan in the upper right corner. It's the lower floor plan. You can see that the garage is dimensioned here at 434 square feet. That's the largest box in the floor plan. The smaller box in the front is what would be the room that faces the street and that's the space I was contemplating as a live/work office space that would front Bernal. You would still come in the home from the driveway or paseo proposed between the existing development on the new site. If you look at the amount of square footage that would be dedicated to this office space, it's almost a home office kind of environment and the garage is 434 square feet, so this is going to be a lot less than 300 square feet, which would kick to the one parking space. If we use the plan that's in front of us tonight, we're probably talking about one additional space. If you think about the context of this environment and the kind of office user that might be here, you may or may not want to consider an additional parking space requirement for something like this. The idea wasn't to try and get the entire ground floor in this particular site plan to work as office. It was still going to be an entrance to a home, maybe a bathroom or some other kind of space on the ground floor and then stairs leading to the living space. Commissioner Balch: So I apologize because I grabbed onto that thinking that you would have the exterior architecture change to almost match your mixed use on the corner because you had talked about it. Beaudin: And I think that was the direction staff was going with; more of a commercial presence at least at the street level, so maybe there are some different windows for that office space for example. Maybe there's room to hang a shingle for a stay at home office space, so you could make it look and feel a little more oriented to the street, a little more like an office but still on the back side be a residential unit. Commissioner Balch: I think I'm still aligned with the initial comment. I like that idea but I wasn't necessarily supportive of the redesigned mixed use repeated on Residence 1 site because of the parking and other challenges. Commissioner O'Connor: I don't think I would be supportive of the home office concept because I don't think we're there. I think we're creating something that isn't going to be very viable for the developer. I think I would want to leave it as presented. Chair Ritter: I kind of agree too. Commissioner Balch: I can go that way. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 19 of 22