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Chair Ritter: Sure. Commissioner Allen: All right. So my motion would be that we require.... actually, my motion is that this project be returned and be redesigned such that it achieve .... or, I support approving the project PUD assuming that it is able to achieve a maximum FAR of 40% and a building height of 30 feet per lot, and not an average blended, but rather that the maximum be 40% and the height be 30 feet and if that can be accomplished, I'm in support of this PUD. Now, I recognize that may involve redesigning some of the homes. I don't know what's involved with that, but that would be my motion. Chair Ritter: I'm not in favor of returning it back. I'm in favor of making a tweak a little. Commissioner Nagler: Is there a coincidence between the FARs being over 40% and those homes that have bonus rooms planned? Or, are there reasons or explanations that they exceed 40% beyond the addition of the bonus room? Commissioner O'Connor: So if the bonus rooms were eliminated, would they all make the 40 %? Commissioner Nagler: Yes, that's the question. Schroeder: There'd still be a few lots over the 40% without the bonus room, but I'd like to point out again to you that the Nolan Farms project which is as new as parts of Cindy Way, there are 7 houses well over 40% in that subdivision as well as some that are fractionally over 40% on top of that. So it's not like everything out there has been 40 %. That was a PUD as well and so I think that you have the flexibility to do that with specific projects that have good design. So we did try to address that issue and in looking at those, this is something we printed out years ago. We used this to say, okay, we can be over 40% on some of the lots and we have the ability to get to 40% on average, so that's I think reasonable. One of these houses was actually built in another subdivision on a smaller lot than these in a PUD project, but this house has been modified. It's got different elevations and the floor plan's a little bit different, but it's been seen before with the bonus room. Commissioner O'Connor: So again, how many of the lots now that have the bonus room that's causing it to go over 40 %? Schroeder: So Plan 2 on some of the lots is over 40% without the bonus room. Commissioner Allen: So how many would be over 40% if you didn't have bonus rooms. Schroeder: Well on this table, if you plot a Plan 2 on every lot, 9 of the lots would be over 40 without a bonus room. Commissioner Allen: Okay, and 11 with a bonus room? Is that right? Schroeder: I think it's.... Commissioner O'Connor: So it wouldn't be at 45% but it would be over 40 %. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 22 of 46