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Commissioner Nagler: But they're temporary things, right? I mean, I walked back there and I thought they were. Beaudin: The definition of temporary is that someone could come and remove these things pretty quickly. This is not attached to the building in any way. These are true accessory...they're sheds on the property. There is no application. If we had a neighbor complain and somebody said we think there's building without permits and these structures need a permit, we'd go out and enforce. We've been there. This is one of the challenges with where we are in the process. Staff resources are what they are. We have one code enforcement officer in the City of Pleasanton. He responds to complaints, and we've got this application moving through our process. We know that there's a likely sale. It's in escrow, so we hope that within a month we have a new property owner and they'll be coming in and we'll be addressing all of these issues from top to bottom. If I can be candid with you, this site is in terrible shape. There's a lot of stuff out there that just includes junk, and so if we had complaints we'd probably be up there for more than just the sheds and we haven't had that kind of complaint. We've been dealing with other issues with this use permit. Weinstein: If I could just add something to that, Mark, our code enforcement officer mentioned that in his review of the site, there are several accessory structures as Gerry mentioned, but none of them exceed 120 square feet and so don't require a permit. We actually did originally have a condition in our exhibit A that addressed the accessory structures and cleaning them up because Gerry's right, the site is not in great shape right now and needs some maintenance. It's not there anymore, but regardless, it appears that building permits were not required anyway. Commissioner Balch: I'm going to just, because I was ready to pounce one way and that solves some other issues, so let me just ask a bit. So we're comfortable at this point that the structures that are there —these ancillary structures —do not require a permit whether the 120 square feet, the height or any of the other requirements that would require a building permit. In other words, because there's a design review, even though it doesn't have 120 feet and things like that — height how about I don't get an answer on that. Let me just say maybe a statement, I find it concerning —I will say this to staff —I find it concerning that we have a code enforcement officer out there for other items as our focus, but because a complaint hasn't been made about a particular item, we haven't addressed it if we saw it at the time. Beaudin: I think what Mark has said is that based on his look of the structures, he doesn't have a floor plan, and he's not out there measuring everything as he walks past it. Based on his look, it meets code. Commissioner Balch: Sounds good. Commissioner O'Connor: I'll follow up by saying I have a concern. If I can build a 118 - square -foot structure without a permit and I can put 10 of them out there, I would be concerned because obviously it doesn't look well. Beaudin: That's the part for me that suggests as you're looking for the CUP, if you think there are too many structures out there, even if they don't require a building permit, EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2016 Page 10 of 52