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Amos: It could change because of the rezoning. So if you're asking if he's having the office designation and he left it strictly as office, he'd have a whole different parking ratio for it. But if they're doing the rezoning for it, we were looking at it and trying to keep it as close as possible to meeting the code requirements. Commissioner O'Connor: Okay. I thought what was driving the two per apartment was that it had the office overlay. Weinstein: These parking standards are not unique to the Office District. They would apply to any mixed use project throughout the city unless there were specific reduced standards for that mixed use project. I think what is happening is that there is a core area overlay that's located in this area but only applies to multi - family residentially zoned properties and that core area overlay offers reduced parking requirements for projects like this. For instance, the parcel just to the north of this one that was looked at by the Planning Commission several months ago: the Alok Damireddy project, that included apartment units. Because those apartment units were in the Core Area Overlay District in a residentially zoned district, the parking requirement was only one space per unit. So again, just one parcel over has different parking regulations in our code compared to the one that we're looking at here. Commissioner Balch: Can I ask a quick follow -up? So on the Knuppe project which we did up on Spring Street, we were looking at the size of the square footage of one use versus the residential uses as well on that same parcel, right? That's not happening here because of the mixed use element of the building? Weinstein: Yes, I think what you're asking is maybe a land use question, like what's the right ratio of commercial to..... Commissioner Balch: .... yeah, so maybe it was because it was commercial because when it came to workshop it was one size. It got expanded, and then that created a parking issue as well because parking was based more on square footage of the commercial use. But in this, the office use, that doesn't drive....? Weinstein: It is actually because there's one per the code. If we're just looking at code requirements right now, there's one space required for every 300 square feet of office. So the bigger the office grows, the more parking is required and that's an important consideration when thinking about design modifications of the site. If you increase a land use, it's going to require more parking and it's a relatively constrained site so it can be tough to fit the additional land use and the additional parking into one site. Commissioner Balch: Okay, so then applying it to this particular site, then the square footage calculation was done and that's where these nine spots came from, right? Amos: Yes. Commissioner Balch: Okay, thank you. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 5 of 28