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He questioned how anything can be that accurate if the locations of the existing homes are not accurate on the Plan. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Commissioner Olson asked staff if they feel the visuals in the packet are pretty accurate. Ms. Stern replied that when scale is considered, one tries to adjust it to normal vision, and that is very subjective; something that is sort of annoying on the horizon is focused upon and deemed to be bigger on the photo. She referred the matter to Mr. Gorny, who could talk to whether or not this was taken with a normal lens that would try and capture how the eyes would see this and explain that a little bit better. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS RE- OPENED. Mr. Gorny stated that what his team did was overlay some conceptual house plans over the grading plan that they were given, then went to each one of the neighboring properties and set a square on there that they made six feet tall to make sure they had the right eye level. He explained that not much of it would be seen with a straight 50- millimeter lens so they actually widened it a little bit to show the entire hill in order to get a sense of what it looked like in the distance. Mr. Gorny stated that when they built the computer model, Photoshop gave them the exact lens that they had when they were looking at the view, and they were able to set the camera in the computer model to have the exact same lens; so they knew that when they built the computer model, they were looking from the same exact spot. He continued that they basically set their camera on top of that square; they looked in the same direction and set the camera exactly the same, and then from there, they basically took out the skies and were laying it in. He indicated that he believed it was a 45- millimeter lens because they were going the other way to a slightly wide angle as otherwise, one would only see the size of the hill and did not get a sense as to what was at the sides of it. He added that they also wanted to make sure they had both houses in each one of these. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Commissioner O'Connor asked staff to comment on the location of one of those homes being put at the top of the hill and the grading of the hill and why staff would consider that to be their preferred spot. He stated that he thinks they are weighing trees versus locations and how far off the top of the hill is from the original "blob" on the map. He noted that this is a very large property and inquired if there were no other alternative to get a roadway that would not affect the trees while leaving the homes down where they originally were. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 24, 2013 Page 11 of 20