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neighborhood and be off the street is going to be an important piece of infrastructure for those future residents. So we would pursue that with the developer pretty directly. Ritter: I want to bring the applicant back up here and then we'll go to comments. Guy Houston, applicant: First off, regarding the sidewalk having the DG is something we would love to have. We think this white gleaming sidewalk is way out of place and inappropriate. Having that DG type of surface, as one of our conditions... we're going to have a little maintenance agreement among the three property owners anyway so over time, those types of things would have to be maintained as was said, sidewalks, whatever they're made of, is the responsibility of the property owner that it is adjacent to. That's a big success there as long as you have this condition here that says Americans with Disabilities Act, and make sure this is compliant. I don't want to come back later and say we couldn't make it comply so we've got to go back with your white gleaming sidewalks. I don't think that's fair. So if that's the case, yes, we want to support that change to my application. First off, to answer your question Nancy we've been working on this for almost 2 years now and I didn't even look at what was approved 12 years ago as far as what the size of the houses are. That rendering you have from 12 years ago, those houses weren't going to look like that and it wasn't going to look that way from the street. So technology has made it a little bit better now. But the difference between that approval and this one, the biggest one is that lot; the house here was all the way back to where we were showing here. So the back of the house was right here kind of almost level or parallel with Ms. Young's home. In that case there were more trees being destroyed and also in that case those are the good looking trees, the beautiful ones. So our emphasis was to try and stay away from the beautiful part and bring this home down closer to the road. That's really the biggest change that we have between the two projects. We've spent a lot of time, and how this comes down to this point here, we think we've done a lot of landscaping and it's going to do a good job. The one thing to understand, and this photo isn't really great but you can see here Dublin Canyon Road, from here all the way to the project being proposed by Ponderosa, there is a wall of trees - -and that's a tree right there —and it's just a wall all the way down towards the Lester's property. So as far as seeing that Lot 3, you're not going to see Lot 3 until it's right there. Going east, you will never see that house. And those aren't trees I paid for. Those trees have been there forever. And so as you're driving this way you will never see that home until you're right there and if you want to spin your head to the right you'll see Lot 3 and that home. It's going to have a lot of landscaping in front there. Lot 1 obviously is a different story and we tried to lessen that impact by going one -story instead of having a two -story. So we think we've lessened the impacts and it was really important to us that the trees up here are really the beautiful ones and if you kind of get in the middle of this tree, this is actually —it's got like four trunks hanging out. It's not the majestic oak we'd like, but the ones up here are beautiful and this is why we designed the project so the house is closer down here to protect that, and additionally less grading. We don't have big retaining walls which was proposed before. No one likes retaining walls, so that is how we designed it. It was really more of looking at the site, but as far as numerical and how big the house was, I couldn't even tell you what those houses were approved for. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 9, 2016 Page 13 of 25