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Commissioner Brown: Okay, thank you. <br />Commissioner Allen: My initial assumption going into this has to do with the restroom <br />and funding the maintenance of the restrooms. I initially assumed that the community <br />center and restrooms would be funded by the new homeowners association that these <br />specific homes and PUD would be part of. But what I'm hearing you say is, they can <br />essentially regulate how they want them to be used or if they want to charge other <br />people to use them. It sounds like you're thinking that you would create a broader <br />homeowners association, broader than just the units we're talking about for this project. <br />Is that correct? <br />Beaudin: I want to clarify. There's the existing neighborhood; the residents that are in <br />the neighborhood are the folks who really have been advocating strongly for an amenity <br />building. So that's really the question, how do you define who gets to use that space <br />going forward. What we'd like to do is if we have the amenity building we want to have a <br />condition of approval that in the future, I'll call it "Ponderosa HOX, would have to allow <br />access for a certain number of events per year or days or times per year or per month. <br />The two HOAs or the neighborhood and the Ponderosa HOA would have to work <br />together and it would be a condition of approval on the project. So the intent here is that <br />the Ponderosa HOA from the City's perspective builds, owns, maintains and essentially <br />manages the facility and then folks from the neighborhood would have access to it at <br />times that are determined through this process. <br />Commissioner Allen: Okay, that's helpful. Given that, let's just pretend that there is <br />loitering in the restroom area and the maintenance is a lot more expensive than the new <br />Ponderosa HOA expects it to be. Would you expect that that HOA would have the right <br />over time to shut down the restroom or to actually charge and give the residents in other <br />areas, let's say, a key or certain fee to cover their costs? Is there potential that this <br />public restroom overtime might not be so public? <br />Beaudin: The condition of approval we're looking at for this project would be <br />maintenance in perpetuity for the public use and then the specific management of <br />events and number of events per year would be regulated. The idea isn't that this <br />becomes a community room for citywide purposes; it is that it serves this HOA or it <br />serves the broader neighborhood, not citywide functions and those kinds of events. <br />Weinstein: They would have to come back as well if that situation occurred where the <br />costs of maintaining the restroom were a lot higher than expected. To change that <br />condition of approval that Gerry was talking about, we would bring it back to the <br />Commission and City Council possibly to renegotiate or revisit that condition. <br />Commissioner Balch: I can guarantee it's going to come back the day it needs to be <br />rebuilt. The "Ponderosa HOK, for lack of a better term or understanding —it's purpose is <br />going to be formed so it can maintain the landscaped areas at the ends of the courts, <br />the buffer zone between itself and the park, and then this parcel on which the clubhouse <br />public amenity sits and likely, the amenity itself. Is that a general paintbrush similar to <br />like a public art area or public open space area? <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 7 of 58 <br />