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With that, I would ask if you had any questions of me. If they're architecturally specific, I've got Adam Gardner here who's got the next speaker card who can probably address those more intelligently than I can. Adam Gardner: Good evening, Adam Gardner with William Hezmalhalch Architects, again I want to thank everybody for their input in getting us where we are tonight. There's one condition of approval I just wanted to address and that's the relocation of the detached garage for the historic home. The condition requires that the garage and the tandem parking space be flipped and I just wanted to explain how we got to where we are with the plan. The existing house was essentially located on the site currently so we pushed it off to the west side and tried to create kind of a single family environment with a front yard and generous side yard. If we take that detached garage which is essentially an alleyway and push it up towards St. John Street, I think it will really crowd the house quite a bit. We have about a total of 15 feet from the house to the property line and the garage should be somewhere in the 11 to 12 feet, so we'll wind up with about 3 to 4 feet and kind of squeeze by. The condition of approval is to require that the garage not be used for storage which shows that it would need to be accessible for garage space and then we do have the garage rear door and the idea is that we just drive through and use that pad parking for the second parking space. So we'd like your consideration to not require us to push the garage back; to keep the space around the house and the integrity of the existing home intact. So if you have any questions about the architecture, I'd be happy to answer them. Commissioner O'Connor: So I have one and maybe I misunderstood, but the way the plan is drawn today with the pad closer to St. John, do you have a driveway coming off of St. John to get to that pad? Gardner: No, we do not. Commissioner O'Connor: Only going through the garage? Gardner: Only going through the garage. The garage has two garage doors, one at the front off of the alley and one at the rear of the garage which is towards St. John. So you drive through the garage to access the second parking space. And the idea there again was to reduce curb cuts off the street and to provide more parking. Commissioner O'Connor: Okay, thank you. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Commissioner Brown: Why don't we start with first the applicant's concern regarding the carport? Chair Ritter: Okay, so that's one of the conditions that staff proposed. What's the feeling on modifying that? Just the carport discussion. Commissioner Balch: Maybe we should ask what staff's position is on it and why; if they could explain or elaborate. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 6 of 39