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physically adjust the project and potentially have a material and adverse effect on trying to meet a metric that way. Commissioner Allen: Can I ask just one last question around this problem that we always face about garages and how they're used because, for example, I live in a homeowners association that has the rules that your garage is supposed to be used for parking and I've been on the board. We can't enforce it. It's unenforceable for the most part. But, is there a way to have a garage door that has some kind of window in it? If there was a way to have a garage door that has some kind of window in it then at least the homeowners association has the ability or someone else does to look and see, and that may prevent people from using the garage as storage. And I don't know if there's a garage door that does that that's on the market. Weinstein: I'm sure that's something that could be included as part of the project. In doing so, you would sort of weigh if there were security considerations or durability considerations or aesthetic considerations. But I don't think there's anything that would prevent the Planning Commission from requiring or to asking for a window in the garage door. Commissioner O'Connor: You know there's only six units I think when people open their garage door that you could tell if they were storing something. You know, it's not a big complex that's really spread out. Commissioner Allen: I don't know that we'd go there, but we deal with this all the time. Commissioner O'Connor: They might self- enforce because if there is so little parking on St. John down in here that if you want to be able to put your car away, that's the only place to go because there's no parking on the street. They may do it just out of need without having to be forced. Don't remove it from the CC &Rs but I don't know that there is much more we can do. Ritter: I have two speaker cards. Alice Mohr? Thank you for coming and staying so late. Alice Mohr: I live on St. Mary's Street in Pleasanton. I came because I'm concerned that my property is right in the back of the back part of that property and I wanted to see what the plans were because I was worried they might be considering three stories. When I saw how many townhouses they wanted to put on the property, I was concerned with three stories, which I think is out of character for that area, and I particularly don't want a three story house behind me, but that's beside the point. The other thing I was going to ask is that if it could be a solid fence, like you know, one of those cement panel type fences that goes across the back of the property. And then I noticed in the plans that I was reading, if I interpret it correctly, it doesn't look like the setback from the back houses there to the back property on what would be the south is the minimum. It looks like it's supposed to be 30 feet and I think it's like 16 -20 feet that they have there and I was just wondering if that's a problem. And then the other thing is that I think the estimate for parking on St. John depends on whether you're going to park there after midnight especially on certain nights like Barone's Thursday Night in the PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 31 of 46