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Commissioner Allen: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm jumping ahead. Okay. All right, so I agree with staff's position on this too; that the overall pedestrian connections and views could be strengthened by providing enhanced landscaping, greater visibility through the project and they specifically cite where and I agree with that. Now, with that said, if I had a visual landscaping or a realistic visual, I could help feel better about that, but I'm really going with staffs feeling and looking at some of the drawings that makes sense to me. Commissioner O'Connor: I agree with Nancy too. And staff, again I was concerned on the site plan where the parking was. As I went through this I didn't realize how little street parking there is. There's really only one side of Nevada Street, so we have no real driveway aprons for parking. We really have garages. Now, given that, I'm going to assume that not everybody's going to fill up their 2 -car garage with stuff because there's not enough parking for everybody to park. You have to have at least one space I guess, but again, even with I think some people parking in visitor parking if you will, the open parking, I don't know that there's enough for people who come to visit or for the people who have the third car if there's a family living in some of these homes. It looks under parked to me and I don't know how staff feels about that. It feels under - parked. Commissioner Allen: Do we want to discuss parking now or do we want to discuss it as part of number 4. Commissioner O'Connor: Oh, I'm sorry; she mentioned parking when she said the site plan Commissioner Nagler: No, that's a good comment though. Chair Ritter: Yes, if you could add a comment about parking. Let's just keep going. Regarding the site plan, I like the layout of it. I think we need to make sure we incorporate the trails and sidewalks in because I think it's a walking location to the downtown and I sense there will be a lot of walking if we have a special needs and group in there. So I think that's real important. Proper lighting on the trails and inter - connectivity, and the overall site plan: I like it. Personally I would like to see Sunflower Hill get a bigger pad, but I know we have to make all the numbers work for that, but I think there's a need for that down the road. That's my second point. Commissioner O'Connor: I'm sorry but something that came up earlier —is staff at all concerned with Nevada Street, for lack of a better word cut - through traffic coming off of Bernal as an easier place to go? If this is really the walking path area between the residents and the Sunflower Hill portion, there's two ways in there. One's on the north side and one's on the south side, but that's going to be a fairly busy street. Hagen: It will be a fairly busy street, but it's going to be a complete street. They are going to have the streets with bike lanes on it, as well as parking on the north side of the street, and on both sides of the street they also have landscape strips with trees and landscaping. Commissioner O'Connor: Is the sidewalk going to be separated from the street? Hagen: It will be a separated sidewalk from the street. So the sidewalk is going to be separated from the landscape strip, from parking, from a bike lane to the street. And then on the opposite side, the multi -use trail will have the landscape strip between the multi -use trail and bike lane as well. Commissioner Brown: K Court, are you concerned that there's no sidewalks there? PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 25 of 43