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Commissioner Brown said he thinks Mr. Beaudin is looking for more prescriptive items such as moving Lots 42, 43, etc. Mr. Beaudin said he will not ask the Commission to design from the dais which is difficult. He wants to make sure there is consensus for fewer units, reducing the number of 3 story units, but if there is no consensus from the group, it is harder for him to have those subsequent discussions. Chair Ritter said he thinks there is general consensus to have more than 19 units for Sunflower Hill. Commissioner Nagler said obviously what Sunflower Hill wants is germane, but to be realistic, to get enough more space for there to be a larger footprint for a building for Sunflower, he thinks they must be realistic in the number of homes they would be asking the applicant to give up. Mr. Beaudin said he thinks the difficulty is that there is a Housing Commission in the City and they have negotiated an affordable housing agreement which is in draft form and will be referred to the City Council. Sunflower Hill and the developer have forwarded their proposals to the Housing Commission and that number is the 1.35 acres with the $1 million. Therefore, he is not suggesting the Commission cannot change the land plan, but he asked to keep in mind that this is a conversation that has occurred with hearings and this is the Housing Commission's recommendation at this time. Commissioner Allen said she would prefer to have less units. She can live with three - story units so long as they are not visible from Stanley. She would like this to be a medium density project and not a high density project, and closer to reflect what is across the street in Reflections. Chair Ritter said if they had less units, the price would go up. Commissioner Allen said a home for $800,000 is for a family that is making $200,000 each per year. Mr. Beaudin suggested taking the conditions of approval as they have been written and staff will make sure they make changes and that they receive a straw vote on it. By the time the Council sees this project, and it has incorporated the intent of the Commission this evening, he thinks it comes down to: • Density; There seems to be at least three Commissioners who wanted to see fewer units within the development and that number does not necessarily have to be big, but the idea is to create additional open space for the future neighborhood; • There is a concern about three -story homes potentially looking out of place in the configuration they have been shown, so there is a need to either move around the number of three -story homes or create fewer three -story homes to ensure they are not visible from Stanley and so the green spaces and the block faces appear more like the perimeter of the project with two -story homes. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 10, 2016 Page 28 of 33