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Chair Allen commented, for clarification, that what staff is looking for the Commission to do tonight is not to define the criteria for this subsequent item that was not noticed, but just to say whether the Commission cares about it and thinks it warrants further discussion; then staff would do the staff report that would lay out the options, how many homes are in each bucket, and what the costs could be to undertake that. Mr. Beaudin stated that staff would evaluate the process and the criteria, and staff would encourage the Commission not to do that tonight because that was not what staff was recommending and in fairness to the people who live in this area, got the notice, and thought that it did not involve them. He asked the Commission, if it desired, to take the staff recommendation or some version of it and move it to Council. He noted that some among the Commission mentioned the idea of delaying it to evaluate this more comprehensively; however, he indicated that staff is comfortable doing this in two steps, and the reason for that, as Mr. Otto pointed out earlier, is that there is an existing survey for people who want to do things to their homes, and staff wants to protect that resource as soon as possible. Commissioner Ritter inquired if staff is already currently doing this kind of evaluation for the non -88 homes that are in here to see if they fit the area should their application come through. Mr. Beaudin replied that there are certain changes that happen to the exterior of homes that the City does not have a planning review for; they could just be a building permit review. Chair Allen clarified for those is the audience that the City has Downtown Design Guidelines that talks about some of the things and principles that Commissioner Ritter was referring to earlier that talk about what the City wants the historic Downtown residences to look like. She indicated that as Commissioner Ritter just confirmed with staff, for changes that are below ten feet on single -story homes, the owner does not always have to check to see if some of these principles are followed; and potentially if these amendments are approved and the Commission says it is interested in exploring this additional part, it would allow the Commission to further define what that design review process might look like for the houses that do not otherwise make the list. Mr. Otto clarified that if the improvement the owners want to make is not triggering design review, those guidelines do not get picked up by staff because the applicants do not even come in to see Planning because the City has no authority over those. He added that, as Mr. Beaudin mentioned earlier, there may be some things that require a building permit but are not subject to Planning discretionary review. Chair Allen noted that this is why the Task Force wanted this to be looked at. Commissioner Balch inquired if the scope of what is being discussed now is the 106 homes that did not make the criteria that it is not historic prior to 1942. Mr. Otto confirmed that was correct. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, October 14, 2015 Page 11 of 35