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Seto: And I do believe it shows up in our water bills. I'll have to check that section Commissioner O'Connor: I heard someone else say that there's still a discussion too about two years ago there was a 40 unit amount we could have without any penalty and last year only 30 units was the minimum. So I don't know. I called the water company and they were confused. Seto: We are the water company. The restrictions of the City Council originally adopted when they declared the local water emergency was to provide for the reduction requirement. So the 25% mandatory reduction we're all familiar with. There are different cases where at certain levels there is such a minimum amount of use that the fines haven't been imposed, but that also depends on whether or not somebody was on a multi - family situation or a single family situation. I believe there are some variations. Commissioner Allen: Could you recap the changes made to Spring Street? Seto: I'm going to defer to Community Development to make those summaries. Chair Ritter: It was approved. Weinstein: Yes, it was approved. So the applicant came back with revised plans that made a couple of significant changes. One, the second story was set back a little bit more than it was initially. It was set back from 6 to 12 feet to just get more relief on Spring Street. Secondly, the building mass itself was sort of broken up. Before when you saw it, there was one monolithic building and now it is sort of broken up into two pieces. Big change to parking —no tandem parking at all so as Commissioner Allen mentioned, each residential unit has 2 garage parking spaces with 2 guest spaces behind. Chair Ritter: That's what they started with. Commissioner Nagler: How did they achieve that? Weinstein: They just pushed and pulled the commercial space. They chopped off about half of the commercial space. It's now 1,800 square feet instead of about double that and they used that extra floor space to make the residential units a little bit wider essentially. And then because the commercial space was about half the size that it was before, not as much commercial parking was required and so the result of that was that the applicant had to pay in -lieu fees for only one parking space, so the in -lieu fees were significantly reduced compared to the previous project. Commissioner Nagler: Did they keep that studio apartment? Weinstein: Yes, but I don't think it ended up being a studio apartment. It was a little bigger than that. Commissioner Allen: It's now on top of the commercial. The applicant ended up with, in my mind, a win /win. The developer even got a larger townhouse instead of the little studio or one bedroom. They actually have one townhouse that's 500 square feet more. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 44 of 46