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just explain what makes this a workshop? I always ask this question. Why did we have to go through a workshop for the record? Weinstein: So all major downtown projects involving new construction go through workshops and all projects involving legislative changes throughout the city, like changes in General Plan land use designation or zoning go through workshops. Chair Ritter: Great, all right. Commissioner Balch: I apologize, but one other quick question I wanted to bring up is, has staff had a proposal to adjust resident one to a mixed use building as well? Amos: In this slide? Commissioner Balch: Yes. Amos: So we did have conversations with the applicant about that being an alternative as well. Commissioner Balch: How did that go over? Amos: We're presenting the project before you with one mixed use building Commissioner Balch: Okay, my question to this is wouldn't this mixed use then increase the parking requirement significantly? Amos: It could, depending on the square footage you have on the ground floor. Commissioner Balch: Presumably, you'd almost do the exact same square footage and you have nine and you already had two, so you need seven more in -lieu. Beaudin: There's a room on the first floor that could be a live /work situation so I think this gets us back to the earlier concept that we were talking about very early in the discussions where you could theoretically have someone with a home office who has the ability to operate there with a pretty small footprint on the ground floor of an office space. Commissioner Balch: So the City allows you to be self - employed or live /work in your residence, but they don't allow you to have employees in a residence, correct? Beaudin: So that's true for Home Occupation, but live /work is a little bit different. We don't have live /work in the Code right now. I think it's something we could certainly explore for downtown when we get into the Downtown Specific Plan effort. In a PUD scenario like this, we have a little bit of flexibility to play with that concept, particularly because we're trying to get this project into an O district and I think, if I could just take the opportunity while I have the opportunity —the idea of creating that taller plate height and getting those transom windows in there, what you start to see is the possibility for a space that can evolve with the neighborhood. So we're talking about it in the context of an Office district but we're being mindful of the fact that when we get into this Downtown PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 13 of 28