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Beaudin: Can I make a few clarifications while we answer the question you had about story poles? Okay, so if it's going to be an office space right now, it's a three -piece bath.... Commissioner Balch: With the ADA requirement right? Beaudin: In the office space; the new mixed use space which will now be a commercial office space, I'm not sure you need a shower in an office so we would want to shift that over to a two -piece bath rather than a three - piece. Does that make sense to everyone? So that it's more of a restroom? Commissioner Balch: Although candidly, if you are working in the office, you want to go jogging, it'd be nice to have a shower in your office. Beaudin: That's true. It's a balancing act there. Commissioner Nagler: Is the deal in modern offices to put in. Beaudin: Maybe a shower is but a bathtub isn't. Commissioner Nagler: Okay fine. Beaudin: You know, it's one of those things that if we want to make it really clear this is not a bedroom. It's a point. Then the other thing is these trees on the property; both heritage trees that are set to remain. What I'd like to do is that if we're going to relocate the curb cut, that we do have a condition of approval that includes working with a licensed landscape architect and /or arborist to make sure we have a really good plan in place to protect the root system during construction and for the new parking lot because I think we want to make every effort to save those trees if we can and this will have a different kind of an impact. We'd want that information. Commissioner Allen: If there's any risk, and you can talk to the arborist, that that curb cut strategy poses to the trees, I'm assuming we would bring that back. We wouldn't just have the curb cut take priority over pulling the tree out, right? Beaudin: Well, so what will happen is we'll relocate the curb cut and five years from now or two years from now the tree will suffer and will die if we don't take the proper precautions. So I would suggest having a plan in place for the construction and for the materials that are used to make sure we give the tree every opportunity, and there is no guarantee that the tree will survive, but working with the landscape architect here at the City and with the professional from the applicant's side, I think we can come up with a plan that gives both trees the best chance of surviving. Commissioner Balch: And I also want to mention I'll bring it up that Condition 93 gives the discretion of the City Engineer to require water meters for each lot and we're going to make that mandatory and not discretionary to the direction of the City Engineer. Chair Ritter: Don't we normally use that? PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 30 of 38