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Commissioner Brown: Yes, why not just take the drive -thru to the driveway Luchini: They have three parking spaces there so I think it was an attempt to fit a trash enclosure and get those three additional spaces to be conforming with the actual requirements. Chair Ritter: They have six don't they? Luchini: They have six total in that area. To go straight through the drive -thru and the trash enclosure takes two spaces. Commissioner Brown: And you couldn't recover six spaces by extending that over? This is a workshop and I'm not trying to design from the dais here but it just seems to me that we're creating a traffic nightmare forcing it around and past traffic backing out of all of those spaces and then potentially having to get stopped by people trying to exit the drive -thru. If people are just looking to get their coffee and go, I'd rather get them to go and not cross back across so that's why I was asking the question. Again, maybe it's a fairer question for the applicant. Luchini: I think staff would acknowledge and sought an ideal circulation pattern through there. I'm not sure that you'd be able to recover three or actually six of those parking spaces with that design, but again, it's a PUD so there is flexibility in the standards and if that's the direction the Commission wants to go, you'd have to make that recommendation to the applicant. Commissioner Balch: Before you do then, I'll just make a comment that the Starbucks that this is designed after is the Starbucks on Airway Boulevard in Livermore. So you call Livermore and they have this exact plan. Commissioner Brown: Yes, and I've sat in that queue. Commissioner Balch: I've parked in that parking lot and have been seen in the queue. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Galen Grant, Applicant: Good evening. Thank you. Good to be back. We've already gotten heavily into this project and you know this site has been really interesting. It's been a challenge. Just to give you a little bit of history and this is probably literally the 20th site plan that we've done and so it's been a tremendous labor of love to get here. So what we have right now, what we're removing is a pretty nasty looking building that's ready to go. It's kind of outlived its life, and we initially proposed a singular building that would allow for a longer queueing along the backside. It was concealed. We submitted it to the staff and had some very productive work sessions. We talked about what the City would like, what Mr. Mash would like, and we used a lot of sketch paper. I think it's fair to say staff had some sketches of their own and one of the points the staff, representing the City, really was concerned about was, how do we get as much commercial frontage on Owens and how do we provide all of the other aspects of the development that Mr. Mash would like to see here, and can we do that in one singular building. It became PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 28, 2016 Page 19 of 32