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Commissioner Nagler: I hear you want two exits too so I appreciate the answer <br />Grant: Gerry, do you understand what I mean about the dead end parking? <br />Beaudin: I understand what you're talking about. I think you're dealing with a lot of <br />development you're trying to put on the site so I think you may have to make <br />compromises and I think if you're going to continue to try to put as much development <br />on this property you're going to have to consider some things that may not be a typical <br />practice. <br />Grant: Well, that's true but dead end parking.....we understand compromise, but dead <br />end parking is not something that... you never want to bring retail cars into a lot, find that <br />there's no parking and then have them somehow do a three -point turn to get back out. <br />Commissioner Balch: Good point. <br />Beaudin: I can share with you in a separate conversation a design that works in terms of <br />keeping the space free at the end of parking lots where we don't have the ability to <br />come straight through in a retail environment. <br />Grant: Well, I know that you can block out a parking space and stripe it but it's just not a <br />good practice. <br />Commissioner O'Connor: So the problem started when you didn't have enough room for <br />the queueing that City staff or the traffic study was looking for. So you said you <br />lengthened Building A -1, A -2 and you lengthened that and had to cut back the depth of <br />Building B in order to do that? <br />Grant: Right. <br />Commissioner O'Connor: Instead of that, why didn't you shave 10 or 12 feet off of A -2 <br />and put a double lane queueing coming into the curve? <br />Grant: We did. We tried that and Starbucks would not allow that, but Adam did you ever <br />see that option? <br />Weinstein: I don't think so. <br />Grant: Yes, we had a double throat and then it merged into a single, and we picked up <br />about maybe four additional cars. <br />Commissioner O'Connor: Why did Starbucks care where their queue is? <br />Grant: Starbucks said they would not accept the hazard of that point of return. <br />Commissioner O'Connor: It happens everywhere. Where's one in Pleasanton? We <br />have one at McDonalds at Bernal and.... it does the same thing. They do it all over the <br />place. <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 28, 2016 Page 23 of 32 <br />