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spaces in the garages. It's one garage space, one carport for their guest to park on their lot and each lot would have one guest space and one enclosed garage. Commissioner Allen: That's an interesting concept and its a little bit along the lines of what Kimberly Commons did. I don't know that it's right or wrong, but Kimberly Commons when it was approved, they specifically said they weren't going to have a closed garage. That was agreed upon during deliberations because they wanted to make sure people wouldn't be putting all their stuff there. And they thought if it was more of a carport design it would reduce the likelihood people would use a garage for storage. Commissioner O'Connor: You could stuff your garage and always park outside and your spouse would be on the street. Commissioner Allen: Yes, but we should hope one that would use it. Deutscher: I'd like to reiterate for the Commissioners that we will put it in our CC &Rs with regard to the concern that you raised. I think trying to have one uncovered...excuse me, one carport and one garage, it probably would have an adverse aesthetic as well as marketability and economic characteristic for the project. Again, we are losing a couple of curb cuts and we are doing two covers versus one cover, so I would prefer to do this as we move forward from the buyer expectation and control standpoint than try to physically adjust the project and potentially have a material and adverse effect on trying to meet a metric that way. Commissioner Allen: Can I ask just one last question around this problem that we always face about garages and how they're used because, for example, I live in a homeowners association that has the rules that your garage is supposed to be used for parking and I've been on the board. We can't enforce it. It's unenforceable for the most part. But, is there a way to have a garage door that has some kind of window in it? If there was a way to have a garage door that has some kind of window in it then at least the homeowners association has the ability or someone else does to look and see, and that may prevent people from using the garage as storage. And I don't know if there's a garage door that does that that's on the market. Weinstein: I'm sure that's something that could be included as part of the project. In doing so, you would sort of weigh if there were security considerations or durability considerations or aesthetic considerations. But I don't think there's anything that would prevent the Planning Commission from requiring or to asking for a window in the garage door. Commissioner O'Connor: You know there's only six units I think when people open their garage door that you could tell if they were storing something. You know, it's not a big complex that's really spread out. Commissioner Allen: I don't know that we'd go there, but we deal with this all the time. Commissioner O'Connor: They might self- enforce because if there is so little parking on St. John down in here that if you want to be able to put your car away, that's the only EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 6 of 18