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additional setback in the front to get some guest parking, so this is a different architecture and different sort of street interface. Commissioner Allen: How about the project by the Bank of America? Amos: Are you referring to the one on Peters and West Angela? The one the City developed? Commissioner Allen: Kimberly Commons. Amos: Kimberly Commons' setback is essentially about the same; 10 to maybe 15 feet, but I think it is more closer toward what the applicant is proposing on the front ones along the Peter Avenue side. If you're referring to the one developed more recently on Peters and West Angela, that one has a significantly more reduced setback. That went up to the stairs and I think it was 8 feet to reach those stair entry areas. Commissioner Allen: Right, that's not a good example and that's why I asked. Lee: I don't know if you have the floor plans in your packet, but based on Plan 1 and walking through the front elevation, the front of that house, they are kind of designed as a row house where the front porch and front doors in this development; each of the homes face St. John Street just like the garages. What we're doing is adding an 8 -foot porch on the front and we have a little study area on the ground floor next to the living room that has a little bump out. That little bump out we took from the existing home that's on the site now and kind of use that as a little character reference. So we're really trying to replicate some of the older style homes that were in the downtown area and we have two steps up to the front porch, bringing the porch and the front door closer to the street versus pushing it further back. We want that interaction between the resident sitting on the front porch and people walking on the sidewalk. So we figured that design feature, incorporating a porch element in the front door, and the social interaction for potential home buyers that live at these residents will be part of the community. So they will kind of monitor activity on St. John Street and bring it out to the front area. Commissioner O'Connor: So does that 10 -foot setback go to the front of the porch itself so the actual living room wall is 18 feet back? Amos: It's taken from the building wall or study wall to the property line, about 10 feet, 3 inches. Lee: So the porch extends two feet into that ten feet, so the porch is eight feet from the back of the walk. Commissioner Nagler: But the point is that you could have the 16 -foot setback if you eliminated the porch and eliminated the study, right? Lee: Then you would have primary garage on the front of it. Commissioner O'Connor: You'd have 10 feet to the study and 16 feet to the front door. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 12 of 18