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Galen Grant, Applicant: Good evening. Thank you. Good to be back. We've already gotten heavily into this project and you know this site has been really interesting. It's been a challenge. Just to give you a little bit of history and this is probably literally the 20th site plan that we've done and so it's been a tremendous labor of love to get here. So what we have right now, what we're removing is a pretty nasty looking building that's ready to go. It's kind of outlived its life, and we initially proposed a singular building that would allow for a longer queueing along the backside. It was concealed. We submitted it to the staff and had some very productive work sessions. We talked about what the City would like, what Mr. Mash would like, and we used a lot of sketch paper. I think it's fair to say staff had some sketches of their own and one of the points the staff, representing the City, really was concerned about was, how do we get as much commercial frontage on Owens and how do we provide all of the other aspects of the development that Mr. Mash would like to see here, and can we do that in one singular building. It became clear that the compromise was, we need to have two buildings so let's break it up into a set of two buildings that complemented each other. So one building can conceal the drive-thru and can the other building touch on Owens Drive. So that's how we got here. Mr. Mash's preference really was to do a singular building, but we agree that considering what staff would like to see and what they felt they could support, this site plan made sense. So I can kind of walk you through all of this. In fact, one of the recent meetings we had that included all of us included Jennifer before she went on leave, Adam, the Traffic Engineering Division, and Starbucks. We talked about the queueing at length and Starbucks' queueing requirement was seven cars, and the traffic report said 12 cars and our site plan at that time had 10 cars. We didn't have quite this configuration so Jack, the reference that you made to the other facility for Starbucks led Starbucks to say, okay, we need to get at least another car in there and what we're going to have to do is extend that end of Starbucks and give us greater length. And, one of the compromises we needed to make and as you all know because you've reviewed a lot of retail projects—there's kind of a preferred depth of retail spaces and typically it's 50 feet. It can go as high as 65. We'd hate to go any deeper than that, but similarly you'd hate to go too shallow so our Building B created by the extension of Building A to get more queueing shrunk from 50 feet in depth to 38 feet and we agreed to do that because we needed to come much closer to that 12 car queueing requirement. I had a discussion today with Adam about the agreement that I felt that we had as a result of one of the recent meetings where we had the 10 cars and the traffic report said 12 cars, and it was our understanding that if we could get one more car—if we could get to the 11th car—than that would be an acceptable solution because it's not a perfect size. It could be 13, it could be 12, it could be 11. We were at 10 and we were able to modify the site plan. It took a lot of effort to manipulate all of the different pieces and make sure we were satisfying the accessibility requirements and the distribution. At one time we had the two handicapped cars for accessible parking spaces located in front of Building A, but the request was made, can you get one car related to each building, and so we were able to do that. So, we're very hopeful because you know we're kind of up against the wall. That 12th car; the comment was made well, can we make Building B shallower. Well, we really can't. We really can't take another 20 feet for that 12th car out of the depth of Building B because then we're looking at a building's that probably 20 feet deep or we have to severely carve into the corner Excerpt: Planning Commission Minutes, September 28, 2016 Page 9 of 20 ructural control such as an oil/water separator or sand filter. No other area shall P16-1349 and PUD-121 Planning Commission Page 11 of 19