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Lee: Potentially, we may be getting one or two extra parking spaces on St. John, but we have not taken the exact measurement of the existing condition and how many parking spaces fit in there. With the proposed one curb cut, we are providing 7 parking spaces. Chair Ritter: And no guest spaces. Lee: We're assuming St. John Street will have a guest parking space. Commissioner Nagler: The assumption is that each owner will have two cars. Lee: The requirement is one enclosed and one uncovered space. We're providing two covered spaces per residence. Commissioner O'Connor: This area can be real tight for parking for anyone. Staff, is there a way to tell the owners of these units that they can't park on the street? You know, a lot of people fill up their garages with things and even if you put that in the conditions of approval, there's really not an easy way to manage that. So if they don't have the two spaces available, they'll also be out on the street as well as the guests. I don't know how to solve that real tight parking area. Amos: Your experience is exactly the same that we all discussed before which is, we have the requirement in the conditions of approval that it is disclosed in the CC &Rs and you can try to have enforcement of that, but whether someone decides to park in the street because they know a guest is coming and maybe offer the guest the parking space just to make sure they have it, we can't enforce that. People try lots of different techniques but because it is a public street, we can't tell people they can't park there. Commissioner Nagler: We could though have time specific restricted parking, right? Amos: There could be that depending on where the City Council or the traffic engineer recommends it. We have started enforcing that now on Main Street again and on some of the side streets, so that is happening. Beaudin: We do have a downtown parking strategy and implementation plan. We just got it in draft this week. So I don't want to put all of the burden of downtown parking on that plan but I do think there will be additional opportunities just a block from this location. We've resurfaced as temporary parking, I believe it was 42 spaces, and I haven't seen a car park there yet. Commissioner Nagler: I did the other night. It was full. Beaudin: It was full? Oh, excellent, so I haven't seen that during the day. I'm hoping employees start to migrate there but we are creating spaces where we can and we'll be looking for other opportunities like that as part of the implementation part of the plan. We are looking for ways to add additional parking supply downtown and better managing the supply that we have, and it may come down to limiting the duration of on street parking and really staying the course on our enforcement. Commissioner O'Connor: Did I hear you say temporary parking? EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 4 of 18