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to truck it. So there would be a little bit of a compromise between the Fire Department access and one guest space, but if you were to add any more guest space, it would eliminate a unit. One guest space takes up 9 feet, or 9x19, but unless we push the houses further back towards the back, they will be more private driveways than a parking spot for any random guests. Commissioner O'Connor: So I couldn't tell how much space is in between those rear units where it's a little bit wider in the front? Is it large enough to hold a car? Lee: No, and in between the units, the front doors are kind of....if you see the little black dots on the side of each of those duplexes...that's a walkway and there's a little porch area. So between the porch and the buildings, there's probably about an 8 -foot separation so there wouldn't be enough room for a car there. Commissioner O'Connor: And on the two outside ends what would be I guess a fence line? Lee: Right. We would either have to eliminate the porch on the houses and still really study if you put a parking space and you have to open your door once you do park there, it is pretty tight. What they originally had was a large six -plex building, but the massing and scale of that building was not consistent with the surrounding neighborhood so we divided those into 3 smaller duplex units. I think the scale of the buildings will be more receptive to the surrounding neighborhoods, whether they have two stories versus three stories. So we were really trying to meet the character of the neighborhoods rather than making one or two big buildings. You know, then we can maybe have parking but the scale would be different from what we see here. O'Connor: Do you know how many curb cuts are in the front of these three lots? How many curb cuts are there today? Because now it only looks like you need one. So are we filling in two other curb cuts that would have been for driveways for the other two lots? Lee: Right now I know the existing home had a driveway with two lots on both sides. Amos: There are two curb cuts along the project frontage. Commissioner Nagler: So we're eliminating one. Lee: Yes, we're eliminating one. Amos: There's 3 lots currently, so that's why. They have a curb cut along where there's a garage in the back through here. They have a curb cut here and they have another curb cut through here for this vacant parcel here. O'Connor: So there are three today and we only need one, so we're actually filling in two? EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 3 of 18