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Bonn: Your read of what it says is correct. A C -C zoned property less than 60,000 square feet would be a permitted use. So to address your comment specifically related to downtown there's probably limited spaces that are 60,000 or more square feet. If somebody were to demolish an existing shopping center and start brand new, that would also require design review and something like a brand new building downtown would come to the Planning Commission. Commissioner Allen: So today it comes to us and what we do is we say, was it permitted or not? We'd look here and say, oh yeah, it's permitted. So then it makes it more difficult for us to say, no you can't be here. You know, I mean it begs the question. Today, we don't have any limit, right? Correct? Bonn: Correct, there's no square footage threshold. Commissioner Allen: So therefore if Safeway came in, we're sort of given all kinds of flexibility. Commissioner O'Connor: If it moves to the civic center... Commissioner Balch: If it becomes a neighborhood grocery store. Commissioner Allen: Yeah, I mean there could be a lot of redevelopment in that end of town so I'd hate to open ourselves up that it comes to us and we say, is it permitted or not? Oh yeah, it's now permitted and it's real clear up to 60,000 feet and that just doesn't seem like it makes sense. It seems like we're putting ourselves at risk. Commissioner Nagler: The questions on C -C or related downtown questions are going to be subject to further review by the Downtown Specific Plan Task Force, right? Commissioner Allen: Therefore, I kind of say let's keep this as is or let's put on C -C and make it conditional. Commissioner O'Connor: Let the rest be permitted and under C -C make it conditional Commissioner Nagler: That makes sense, not to say we have a policy position but to. Commissioner Allen .... you know, we'll let the team decide. Beaudin: I think Commissioner Allen, your comment is pretty specific to downtown, so the question Shweta and I were just discussing was whether we could have an additional footnote that talks about retail in C -C Downtown and defers to the Downtown Specific Plan in terms of uses and a size threshold, or maybe we set a size threshold in a footnote on the C -C for downtown. The other large C -C district in town is Rosewood Commons, so I think not bringing this up to that scale is important. It's unfortunate that C -C serves Rosewood Commons and the downtown and they're just different pieces and fabric in our community, so the idea of footnoting C -C to pull out downtown properties and setting a retail threshold that's PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 19 of 49