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ATTACHMENT 4 P17-0055, Downtown Parking Strategy and Implementation Plan Commissioner Allen recused, stating she received compensation from a business in the Downtown area and she left the Council Chamber. Shweta Bonn presented the staff report. Chair Balch: If there is information Commissioners might be relying upon that is not yet presented, you will want to disclose that or talk about it now before the public comment period just as a matter of good practice that came up that the State of California is now recommending strongly. I may be summarizing it wrong but I wanted to kind of mention that as a task of us all. So with that, questions? Commissioner Brown: I would also recommend that maybe as a practice, we limit questions now to questions related to the presentation and then allow the public comment and debate on things that may not be covered in the presentation. So to that end, related to your presentation, two questions—one was the spaces that you added. The charts aren't numbered but what was the timeline for adding those incremental spaces? Over what time period was that added? And did that include the re-gapping of parking spaces to take out oversized spaces? Or, is that still embedded within one of the other recommendations? Bonn: Are you referring to the gaps that the report identifies along streets where some of the spaces are too long or too narrow? Commissioner Brown: Yes. Bonn: That's still is an outstanding issue. Weinstein: And we think the spaces were added something like several months ago. Commissioner Brown: So it is within the last year or since.... Bonn: The latter half of 2016. Commissioner Brown: Okay and the other question I had on this presentation were the autonomous cars in the garage space. Something's not gelling with me. Are you suggesting that we may or may not need to garage autonomous cars? I would think that if it's an autonomous car, like I know the Tesla program, I would presume that car would go back to its home base and that we as a City wouldn't have to subsidize parking if it's a revenue generating thing for the owner. Bonn: Yeah, well, it's obviously something yet to be vetted fully. There's a couple of things to that and as I was talking to the consultant about this, you're almost feeling like you're talking about a science fiction movie or something because it's a futuristic thing, but based on the news we received today, maybe not so far in the future. EXCPERT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 8, 2017 Page 1 of 10