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Commissioner Nagler: Similar; Monday through Friday, during business hours you have to have a resident permit. Commissioner Allen; Is that because of the schools nearby? Commissioner Nagler: No, it's because around the corner on Ray Street, there's an office complex that crowds workers into it and without that parking restriction on Walnut Drive during the day, there's traffic coming and going. Commissioner O'Connor: So this is a different area because we've got Barone's at night and especially on weekends, and I don't know how we would say it's now only for residents. Commissioner Allen: I'm not excited about doing that, restricting it to just residents, and the reason is, it's back to if residents choose to use their garage for storage, then they'll want to park on the street and I don't want to incentivize reserving that for them to park on the street if they choose to use their garage for storage. Commissioner O'Connor: I'm just trying to figure out how to get a guest to come over if there's no parking there. Commissioner Allen: They have to deal with it just like we do. Commissioner Nagler: Every resident gets a plaque they can put in the car. Commissioner O'Connor: Absolutely, but I think going back, you have that card and like Nancy is saying, the resident is actually parking in the street and not using their garage. Chair Ritter: Can they put a sign on the street, since we're gaining 2 parking spaces on the street, can you put a curbside guest parking sign? Even though you don't enforce it? Seto: No. Commissioner Nagler: The parking issue I really think comes down to a simple choice and I think we just need to give the applicant some guidance. Either we believe that there ought to be guest parking attendant to the development for this one and every one that's going to come after it, in talking about the earlier point about precedent. Because we obviously are seeing a trend downtown when older properties are being repurposed for multiple, interesting units and we're just going to see an ever increasing number because it's the way we're infilling, and we have to decide whether we're going to require that parking be handled on a unit by unit basis or not. In the end, for this project, it comes down to whether or not there ought to be 12 or 11 units. Commissioner Allen: I think that's the fundamental question. Chair Ritter: I agree. It seems like, for this project, you need two guest parking spaces on the lot. Commissioner Allen: I agree PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 40 of 46