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more reasonable to downtown as a permitted use and then having anything require a CUP that's above a certain size? Commissioner O'Connor: Or the footnote referring to the Downtown Specific Plan- - Would that work? Beaudin: That works as well. Commissioner Allen: I'm fine with either of those. I mean if we set a threshold, we want to decide here what that is. Is it 20,000, 30,000, 1 don't know, and I'm fine having the task force decide that and have it go to public review. Commissioner Nagler: Yeah, let's do that. Commissioner Balch: I like that idea. I didn't know if you wanted to talk about the threshold here for the rest of it; the 60,000 or not? Commissioner Allen: My only intent was downtown because I'm really into pedestrian scale small town. Commissioner Balch: I'd support a footnote deferring to the DSP. Beaudin: I want to make sure we actually address the retail head on. So, if we have time for a recess before we're done, Shweta and I can try to wordsmith it; otherwise, I'm going to ask for some grace from you all to draft a footnote that meets the intent of what you're asking, which was to make sure retail is, I'll call it "downtown scale" which is a pedestrian scale rather than being subject to the broader C -C parameters. Commissioner Nagler: Well, just out of curiosity, why wouldn't it make specific reference to the DSP? Beaudin: I think it can but the DSP does not set limits on retail size either. Chair Ritter: It could. Commissioner Allen: Should it though? Beaudin: It could and it might in two years, but in this interim period, I want to make sure we're covered. So we probably want to set a number on that. I'd want to do some downtown number searching before we hit the City Council to make sure I understood what the largest banks buildings look like, the library building, and some of the others so we set the size appropriately to make sure we keep that scale. Commissioner Balch: So right now, do you need a recess to do that? Or, do you want to have this come back to us? Chair Ritter: You know what our intent is and make sure you move forward with that. Beaudin: Yes, if you're willing to do that. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 20 of 49