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Deutscher: Correct Commissioner Allen: Can I ask a question since we're all on parking, can you refresh us on apartments? You had asked what the standard was for guest parking. We have a standard for apartments and what is that ratio? This is not to say this is an apartment, but just for apartments, what is our standard that we have? Amos: Again, it depends. It's based on the number of bedrooms. So if you have two bedrooms then you have to have one and one -half parking space in a core overlay district. It'd be something like one space and one and one -half space if you're having a guest. Weinstein: Just to clarify too, small projects in the core area overlay, or less than ten units in the core area overlay, have no guest parking requirement if you're talking about apartments. So I just wanted to clarify that. Commissioner Nagler: But it's actually an interesting question, thank you. So if the apartment standard wasn't in the overlay district, we'd be talking about two guest parking spots, right? Commissioner O'Connor: One per seven units, so it would require two spaces. Deutscher: The other design solution just to throw it out there is just the current parking requirement is one covered and one uncovered. You could do a one -car garage enclosed and then have the other space next to the garage as kind of a carport and that could be open for the residents' guests to park there versus the residents parking two spaces in the garages. It's one garage space, one carport for their guest to park on their lot and each lot would have one guest space and one enclosed garage. Commissioner Allen: That's an interesting concept and it's a little bit along the lines of what Kimberly Commons did. I don't know that it's right or wrong, but Kimberly Commons when it was approved, they specifically said they weren't going to have a closed garage. That was agreed upon during deliberations because they wanted to make sure people wouldn't be putting all their stuff there. And they thought if it was more of a carport design it would reduce the likelihood people would use a garage for storage. Commissioner O'Connor: You could stuff your garage and always park outside and your spouse would be on the street. Commissioner Allen: Yes, but we should hope one that would use it. Deutscher: I'd like to reiterate for the Commissioners that we will put it in our CC &Rs with regard to the concern that you raised. I think trying to have one uncovered... excuse me, one carport and one garage, it probably would have an adverse aesthetic as well as marketability and economic characteristic for the project. Again, we are losing a couple of curb cuts and we are doing two covers versus one cover, so I would prefer to do this as we move forward from the buyer expectation and control standpoint than try to PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 30 of 46