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Commissioner Allen asked the applicant representative if they explored having the overflow parking being part of dealership #3 instead of dealership #2 so that dealership #2 would have more space for sales and service since dealership #3 has lots of space. She explained that the intent behind her question was to ensure future dealerships would have plenty of space to attract strong market opportunity. The applicant representative agreed that Commissioner Allen's proposed configuration would make sense and said the applicant likely had a valid reason for designing the parking as he had but she was not aware of what that reason was. Mr. Beaudin assured Commissioner Allen that he had that question in his notes to discuss with Mr. Zaheri. Ms. Hagen added that the current configuration and layout of the temporary parking does not match the configuration of the circulation master plan. She explained how if you look at it right now, the temporary parking lot is going up,and down on the lot where the future circulation is actually going to be going side to side and it's going to mirror the same row pattern and access and circulation as the Chrysler dealership. The applicant wanted the parking to be as close to the Chrysler dealership as possible, and so to do that the most feasible place to do it would be on lot 2. If you do the upper portion of lot 3, it's going to be going horizontal and it's going to go all the way over El Charro and really it's not going to be very close to the Chrysler dealership. Ms. Hagen elaborated on the initial discussions between the applicant and staff with regard to the placement of the temporary lot. Furthermore, when they did the temporary lot they actually had to do a lot of improvements and address drainage issues and all the aggregate, and so that was before they had the plan of where the permanent parking was going to go. So it really didn't make sense once a temporary parking lot was down to then create a secondary temporary parking lot in a different location. Therefore, since the temporary parking lot was already'in place, the most feasible location was on lot 2. Vice Chair Nagler thanked the applicant representative and closed the public hearing. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Vice Chair Nagler brought the attention to the Discussion Points provided by staff. 1. Are the on-site circulation and parking layout acceptable as proposed? Commissioner Ritter answered that since they've already been using it, they probably know what circulation system is optimal and so if that is what they proposed it probably is the best. Commissioner Allen said she could go either way. She could agree with Commissioner Ritter's point or she could ask for further consideration of the use of Lot 3 for some parking and at a minimum, employee parking. She explained how she believes the market analysis may be useful and had that been provided her answer may have been different. Her concern is that Lot 2 is too small as designed to produce expected revenues. DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 28, 2017 Page 8 of 10