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Commissioner Nagler: It really comes down to that ground floor about one building, right? I mean, as far as where the conversation has at least gone between the staff and applicant. Beaudin: So we're in a position now where all ground floor office is not practical. It hasn't happened and we're in a position now where we can get a strong office corner and the possibility of, as Commissioner Nagler was mentioning, that residential unit fronting the street, has the potential for flexible space on the ground floor, and not the entire ground floor of that unit. So that's interesting to us and we think it meets the intent of the Code. We're trying to keep that on the dash as we're looking ahead because we all recognize that the existing Downtown Specific Plan is not functioning the way it should for certain areas of the downtown. Commissioner Balch: Can I just follow -up with you on that Gerry. I understand it comes back to the parking question. Given the site constraints, if the second residence did go as we're saying here, we'd be shy of potentially seven spaces or maybe less depending on the square footage of that, correct? Am I interpreting that correctly? Beaudin: That's the parking discussion that we need to have. This is a Planned Unit Development application. The applicant has the ability to request different parking requirements relative to the Code. We can, again, go back to the base zoning district which would apply anywhere in town and talk about the amount of parking that would be required for a commercial use like this. There is some possibility you could share the parking behind the mixed use building for that second mixed use building in this diagram. There are ways that you can play with the parking requirement if there's a desire to do that and we could talk a little bit about that. Chair Ritter: I think when we go through these, we might have questions. Is that okay? Commissioner Allen: Could I ask one question that's not on here at this moment? It's regarding RHNA. Could you just recap the implications of RHNA to add residences at this point in time? Do we receive any credit? Amos: It's not a part of our RHNA numbers because we've met all of the requirements for it. Rezoning this and adding these residential units on to it won't apply to it. They don't have to go through that process and it won't affect anything we have with those requirements. Commissioner Allen: So it doesn't help us meet our RHNA requirements. If it's built we never get credit for it in terms of RHNA numbers. Amos: Correct. Chair Ritter: But it could help workforce housing because they're studios, correct? Beaudin: Yes, and I think Natalie has answered your question pretty directly, but, I'll say that there's a regional need for housing. We have folks coming to the podium from time to time talking to us about the fact that they work at Workday and they cannot find a place to live in town. So the RHNA is certainly one component that we're looking at, but PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 15 of 28