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the size of the Nature House is. And the programming from the Nature House has been extraordinary that the City sponsors and I think this could be too. It's small enough that you're not going to have major traffic —in my view and it could be different from the public here —but you're not going to have 100 cars going down your road to get to this facility. You're going to have 10; 10 to have your children join a "Mommy and Me" which is what my son and I were in. I didn't fit the title criteria but I still went. It provides a need for this community. Commissioner Nagler: I appreciate that. Let me wrap this up by asking staff to continue to explore ways in which this community benefit would be managed over time, and it's an unresolved issue, but that we're unanimous in supporting its construction if we can address the way it's managed. Commissioner Balch: I don't know if we're unanimous but a majority. Chair Ritter: Okay, great. Let's do Number 3 here: Are the overall site plan and street/ped /design layouts acceptable? Commissioner Brown: I've got a quick question for staff if you've got a second. Have you discussed the possibility of a parking lot with the applicant as it relates to Number 2 at this point? Do they have a position on that? Weinstein: Yes, it came up in our earlier exploration of adjusting the site plan and looking at different site plan alternatives. I think the concept that we ended up pursuing in conjunction with the applicant was that this would really be a neighborhood - serving clubhouse, and that's not to say that couldn't change in the future, but the concept we were exploring with the applicant team was that, yeah, the folks who would be using this clubhouse and using its restroom would primarily be living in the neighborhood. There wouldn't be a huge need to drive to the clubhouse; that people could walk to it from the surrounding neighborhood. It is a very elongated neighborhood - Valley Trails is, but it's not that big where people can't walk from one end to the other. So the expectation would be that there would not need to be a lot of parking. Again, that's not to say we couldn't explore more parking with the applicant team or look at other clubhouse configurations, but that was the concept initially. Commissioner Brown: Now it's a little counter to the argument.... Commissioner Balch: Yeah, you don't get both wins. Chair Ritter: That goes to overall site planning. Commissioner Brown: Overall site planning, that'd be a quick answer —yes. It's a much better design. I applaud Ponderosa for revising the plan to design what is in fact much, much better. Commissioner Allen: Overall I thought it was good. I do agree that widening the bike and pedestrian path I think you said to about 8 feet —that made sense to me. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 25 of 58