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Weinstein: We're on the same page with the applicant team with regard to the fact that we really don't like curb cuts off of St. John so we're there on that point. The parking space beyond the garage, having to drive through a garage to get to a service parking space is just a really odd configuration that poses complications typical to regular tandem parking but it's even more unique in that you have to pull through an open garage to get out to the street. We just don't see a lot of parking configurations like that and it did seem like when we were looking at the site plan with the applicant team that there would be, even pushing the garage back closer to St. John Street, that there would be adequate space between the building and the garage to meet code requirements and maneuver between the buildings. We get that it's a really tight fit and if the Commission ends up deciding that moving the garage back is desirable, I don't think we'd have massive objections to that, but it just seemed like in its current proposal, it's kind of a weird configuration and more difficult to maneuver out of a parking space than what we're proposing. Commissioner O'Connor: How close would it be between the garage wall and the house wall? Otto: The staff report said two feet and I'm assuming that it's this pinch point here. Commissioner O'Connor: Two feet? Otto: Two feet. Commissioner Brown: Is there a side door on the existing house? Gardner: There is. On the east side. Commissioner Brown: Okay, so the same side as the garage parking. Commissioner Nagler: Where's the door from front to back on the structure? Gardner: It's in the back portion of the existing structure. So it's roughly in line where the garage is right now. Otto: Sheet A -3.1 has a floor plan of the house. It shows a back door on that side... nothing on the side there other than as you get further back there's one on the side but it is set back. Commissioner Balch: So there's two. There's one outside the family room and then one outside the kitchen area? Otto: Yes, that's the added one. Commissioner Balch: They're both at that corner. Beaudin: Can I just add, this is kind of a design issue and a functionality issue and I think the primary reason we looked to push it back was that the Commission at the workshop was looking at parking pretty critically and the idea of giving each unit a PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 7 of 39