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wanted which was office, office, office. It's zoned office, and I'll fall back on that discussion about the zoning and how that kind of feel fits in or not. So we designed everything and Tim came up with the office building of 900 square feet on the bottom with the three units on top and three houses. We do have two separate driveways so we don't have to make any curb cuts or lose any street parking. There's an Augustine entrance which would enter for the office and the three studios and there's an Old Bernal entrance which would enter for the three houses. We also stepped the houses away from the other house. The driveway on the west side is bordering the house. The neighbors like that. The house is sort of away from them. Then he kind of clustered the houses. Natalie's idea at one point on our third or fourth revision was to stretch the houses out and pull them apart so they're not so close and so they are wider with more space around them and then we decided to make the office look more office -like and more commercial. So Tim kind of tweaked it, pulled it forward, gave it some outside seating in the front, raised the ceiling plates and all of the transom windows made the ceilings higher and kind of turned the building. That got us our magic missing parking spot. So all along we were under the illusion that we nailed the parking and nailed the height. From our last project with Brian Bowers the feedback was to keep it under 30 feet. We heard that loud and clear from everybody. So they are 29'8 ". Tim Ward: 29'10" and I think one is 30' to the peak. Carey: 29'11" are the heights. So we thought we nailed the parking. The parking for our neighbor next door is one space per studio. We're in the Core Area Overlay district which carries through the whole downtown so we share that same right to do cool stuff, core overlay, a little flexibility, but the O zoning kind of clips us a little bit. We're ready to debate that though. We have O zoning and now we need two spaces per studio. So we can have two spaces per two- bedroom, three - bedroom, four - bedroom, five - bedroom. Is it up to seven bedrooms? Is that right? For the apartments? Amos: Yes. Carey: So technically, by right, we could have a seven bedroom apartment on top and we need two spaces. So to me, the zoning and where we're at on this parcel defies common sense if we're trying to do three studios, we're trying to get a new type of housing downtown. For our neighbor he only needs one space which we have. For us, technically because we're in the O zone, we need six spaces but we could put a giant apartment up top of seven bedrooms and would need two spaces, so just kind of a weird twist on the whole examination of the rules and what we have been going through with our research. We still want to stick with the three studios. We'd like to go with the Core Area Overlay district which allows us one space per studio, and I just wanted to jump in on the map. Could you show the map of the downtown again; the purple zones? PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 9 of 28