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I would like to see Lot 3's garage be closer to 700 square feet and the square footage of the home being closer to about 4,000 square feet and the height being 30 feet which is code and not over code at 32 feet. At a minimum, it ought to be 30 feet and not 32 feet in thinking about compatibility. That's how I feel about that. Aside from that I think the architecture's beautiful and I can support the project. That's the part that I'm just not 100% comfortable with, and I don't know if anyone can help me through that. Balch: I was going to mention that, I think Commissioner Allen misunderstood. The comment I believe we're referring to is the 5 unit project across the street going to the 3 unit project, I think the overall comment was that we said it could be larger homes and not smaller homes because of the way they were going to reduce their size because we're going from 2 to 1 and there were a lot of factors there. Nagler: So if they do what we're asking them to do across the street which they haven't committed to doing, we don't know yet. Allen: You know, that's a really good point. So I do want to mention one other thing as I think about those to that point, the project across the street, and staff help me here, but I think we had about 3 to 3'Y2 acres of flat land that essentially was going to be developed. Was that about right? So each home would have had about one acre? Weinstein: A little over four acres. Allen: A little over four, so each home would have had about one acre, I mean spread out over this flat land are, right? Versus this project, we really only have 1.4 or 1.5 acres of flat land within this three acre property so in fact these homes are actually only going to be on half of an acre each. O'Connor: This means the houses theoretically could be bigger. Balch: But if I may, this is where I was going earlier with my comment to staff about zoning, right? Across the street is zoned Agricultural, so I was actually trying to say why are we getting to build three here for example versus five versus three on the other side? The zoning is what it is, which we all know where we stood from the last application, but.... Allen: Okay, well thank you for helping me think through that. Weinstein: Commissioner Allen I just want to clarify the FAR calculations because we're just getting out of the FAR discussion. We did miscalculate it. The FAR for Lot 3 in Table 1 should actually not be 20% but 23 %. We inadvertently left out the amount of garage space beyond 600 feet when we were making the calculations. Apologies for that. Nagler: Just to be clear for future reference, if the garage is 600 feet or smaller it is not part of the FAR calculation, right? PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 9, 2016 Page 16 of 25