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Pleasanton that has a pulled back garage they're probably not set back 100 feet. So we're significantly greater than your conventional single family with detached garages that are pulled back. Garages are visible throughout Pleasanton so if we could somehow meet your guest parking ratio and come up with a solution, hopefully you'd be open to that versus taking out Lot 7. Commissioner O'Connor: I think what Nancy was saying is that's an added bonus. We wouldn't take the unit out just because the garage door was showing, but we're looking for 2 parking spaces. Lee: So the decision is for 2 guest spaces. Maybe we could come up with a creative solution. If you had 12 units with 2 additional parking spaces, the parking ratio comes out about 2.17 per unit is the ratio. So if we could somehow meet that 2.17 without taking out a unit, would you guys be willing to do that? Commissioner Allen: They'd be guest spaces, they wouldn't be tied to a unit. They wouldn't be used by anyone within the unit and, let me just test, I don't think we want to do it by going up to 40 feet. Lee: The possible design solution is that instead of the 3 duplexes in the back, maybe it becomes 2 triplexes with a little more separation. Commissioner O'Connor: Or one 6 -plex. It's in the back. Lee: Or one 6 -plex. Commissioner Nagler: It's fair to say were open to it. Beaudin: May I ask the Commission, you were just talking about making two spaces magically appear here. We're gaining the two spaces on the street by closing those curb cuts, or possibly only one depending on how the curb cuts get measured. If push comes to shove and it means a design concession, is one space on street gained and one space in the project sufficient? That street space is not for the project, but they are essentially giving one towards the supply. So I'm just asking. Commissioner O'Connor: It would only take about two minutes to fill up that little space. Beaudin: But it's not there today. It's trying to get the best possible residential development and hoping that 10 years from now cars all park themselves and they'll stack at the end of the cul -de -sac and it's not going to matter. Commissioner Allen: So my comment is the same reason Commissioner O'Connor stated. I'm not supportive of that because other people will likely use the street parking and I think it needs to be dedicated to those units. I'm comparing this to the Spring Street, the final Spring Street project; the Knuppe project that the Council had go back and redo the parking. It's a project like that which is nice and now has the two -car garage and it has 2 spaces behind each garage for guests. Remember in our workshop how we said that? This project is pretty tight because it just has a two -car garage but there is no driveway behind the garage. Had there been a driveway behind the garage, EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 17 of 18