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working with too. But whatever it is, we'll meet the standards that were described in Natalie's two points below there. But keeping it on the site, nobody liked the look of it, the efficiency of it and I think it just took away from the historic feel of the historic property in and of itself too. Chair Ritter: Okay, we have four speaker cards. Robert Lee? Robert Lee, Architect: If you guys have any questions, I'm free to answer any you might have, as this is a workshop session. Commissioner Nagler: One quick question. This is obviously a conceptual design, but where on the continuum of a conceptual design and pretty close to what you're going to put in the showroom is this facade? Lee: So the floor plans in working with Todd are pretty much what they would like to build. The elevation character that you see along St. John's Street is what we're proposing. The elevation for the 6 units in the back, we have not developed those and based on what we heard tonight from you of what you would like to see, we'll go back and design those 6 units and bring it back to you, staff, and the Commission. Chair Ritter: Have you done any other architectural work in Pleasanton? Lee: A lot with Ponderosa Homes, infill sites along Ironwood, the senior community. That was planned and designed by our firm, the recent one on Stanley Boulevard; I think there were 13 or 14 lots. We designed those. Historically with Ponderosa and other builders throughout, we've been in the Tri- Valley area for a number of years. Our firm is based in San Ramon and we're doing a lot of projects throughout the Bay Area. Chair Ritter: Great. So you understand Pleasanton. Lee: Yes, I even have a house in Pleasanton. Chair Ritter: Great, thank you. Commissioner O'Connor: So we received I think one or two emails from neighbors. What would it take to provide any kind of guest parking? One space, two spaces, three spaces? Is there nothing available? Do we have to eliminate a unit to put anything in? Lee: Yes, if we could put up the site plan and we can go through a little bit of it. We are preserving seven on- street parking spaces on St. John Street since we have one limited access into this site. On the right hand side we have one driveway serving the 12 units so we're not having 12 driveways breaking out St. John Street. So after we worked with staff, we basically hide the garages as much as possible and preserve both the landscape that is existing on St. John Street as well as the existing surface parking on St. John Street for residents as well as guests that come to the Downtown. If we were to provide an extra guest space on our property, there may be room in between the two tri- plexes. They are 13 feet apart, but I think the Fire Department might like to keep that clear to be able to access fire from St. John to the units in the back without having to try EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 2 of 18