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Commissioner O'Connor: Absolutely, but I think going back, you have that card and like Nancy is saying, the resident is actually parking in the street and not using their garage. Chair Ritter: Can they put a sign on the street, since we're gaining 2 parking spaces on the street, can you put a curbside guest parking sign? Even though you don't enforce it? Seto: No. Commissioner Nagler: The parking issue I really think comes down to a simple choice and I think we just need to give the applicant some guidance. Either we believe that there ought to be guest parking attendant to the development for this one and every one that's going to come after it, in talking about the earlier point about precedent. Because we obviously are seeing a trend downtown when older properties are being repurposed for multiple, interesting units and we're just going to see an ever increasing number because it's the way we're infilling, and we have to decide whether we're going to require that parking be handled on a unit by unit basis or not. In the end, for this project, it comes down to whether or not there ought to be 12 or 11 units. Commissioner Allen: I think that's the fundamental question. Chair Ritter: I agree. It seems like, for this project, you need two guest parking spaces on the lot. Commissioner Allen: I agree. Chair Ritter: And you've got to figure out how to use 11 lots. Commissioner Nagler: And for us the choice on this project and every other project is: what's the balance of interest, the public interest, between the parking challenge versus us wanting to create enough housing opportunities in the downtown core to create a viable neighborhood, and it's a trade -off. You know, it's not necessarily black and white. Everything is incremental, but it's sort of that choice, right? Chair Ritter: And, it's a space they could do something with and we're not doing in -lieu fees, so it's a perfect opportunity to say we need two extra spaces. Commissioner Allen: I agree, and it's somewhat consistent. The other little design issue that was a little bit of a worry to me which supports taking out one unit to help parking was that there was one unit in the back that had a front - facing garage and that showed from the street. Amos: That would be Lot 7. Commissioner Allen: Lot 7 had a front - facing garage that was offset and it showed on the street, and our policy is that there shouldn't be front - facing garages showing on the street. I mean it's a side issue but another reason why that one unit was a little problematic. So taking it out seems to fit two different reasons. Lee: Can I address that? The one unit you can see from the street, Lot 7, its 100 feet back from St. John Street. If you take a conventional single family home anywhere in EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 16 of 18