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7. MATTERS INITIATED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS Commissioner Brown: The photo on the left is a photo I took about a week and one half ago when I ordered on the Starbucks app from the wrong Starbucks and had to go to this one, and I just made a note that the EV parking; the charging station is at the back. It's in the middle of a triangular island. I didn't actually pull the charging cable off but I find it difficult to believe that the charging cable would reach an EV car parked in the stall to the right and the charging jack on the left you would have to have a disabled placard to be charging on the left. And so I just felt that was a poor design. I don't know if it was intentional but the photo on the right I actually took today outside my office, so that's my office in the background there over in Santa Clara. They just actually redid the EV charging and you can see that they clearly marked it for EV parking. It's a universal symbol there and the charging outlet is centered on the line between the two parking spaces and easily accessible on both. The only reason I bring this up is, I have an EV car but don't use public charging that much, but from a best practices perspective as we approve additional projects that may include EV power I just thought it might be a thing to look out for and I don't know if staff has any comment on that particular one or not. Commissioner O'Connor: Just out of curiosity, the one on the left—do they have any stepping stones? Commissioner Brown: I did not see any stepping stones and I don't see any in the picture. Commissioner O'Connor: I was just surprised to see that the charging station is in the middle of a planter. Commissioner Brown: Exactly, it is a triangular planter. The photo doesn't do it justice but it is actually closer to the handicapped spot than it is to the non - handicapped spot and as you can see the spot immediately to the right of the planter is not reserved for EV parking so essentially if I wanted to charge my car there, I'd have to wait for that non -EV car to leave and hope that the cable could reach. On my car the charging jack is on the driver's side rear and so there's no way that would reach on my particular car unless I flipped the car around. Just a best practices design suggestion. Chair Ritter: Good point noted. One suggestion is to use the mobile citizen app. That actually logs it in to staff as a concern, and this would be a good example of when to use that app. Commissioner Brown: The reason I brought it up here was just if we were approving designs. Chair Ritter: I agree Commissioner Brown: I've actually used the mobile citizens app about five times. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, October 26, 2016 Page 4 of 8