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Grant: Well, I understand what you're saying about exiting directly to Larkspur and in a perfect world we would do that. I mean, we would have done that from Day 1. In fact, one of our earlier concepts have that when we had a singular building. Commissioner Nagler: It doesn't need to be a singular building. Grant: I understand, but the reality is that based on the parking requirement for the square footage that we're proposing and the uses that we're proposing, the parking requirement is 37 cars which is what we have. So if we lose those parking spaces and carry that drive out and extend the building out, we also have to shorten....what we're going to have to do is, in order for the traffic flow westward to wrap around the end of Building B, we're going to have to modify Building B at the same time. Commissioner Balch: Can I follow up on your question. Maybe I could ask it another way. I think Commissioner Nagler's asking, and maybe to educate me—I don't know, you could enter one side of your lot and exit out the other side, no problem. So if you just have a long, straight queue through the whole east/west you could do that, right? I mean, there's no restriction saying...you own that land on the west side, right? Grant: Well, there is an access easement. Commissioner Balch: So I'm going to ask another question or modification. Why isn't an L building not coming to fruition? Why is B not making an L with A and parking on both sides? Grant: We didn't do an L building because we didn't want to add another entry onto Owens Drive because we wouldn't do a dead-end parking plan. We wouldn't do that. Commissioner Brown: Why? Grant: It's just terrible practice to bring retail cars into a dead end parking area. We just wouldn't do it. Commissioner Balch: So the way you have this configured, as cars come out of the drive-thru they can make a right turn or a left continuing out. Commissioner Nagler: ...As well as cars from the parking lot exiting out to Larkspur Drive that way. Grant: Yes, there is two-way traffic through there and anyone exiting the queueing area is entering that road at a 90 degree angle so they could go right or they could go left. I mean understand. When you look at the plan and you see the curvature of the road around the end of Starbucks it feels like its drawing the cars out of the queueing back through the site, but in reality, it's really entering that drive at the tangent point and that car can go right or left. Commissioner Nagler: And just to be clear, my question specifically is an attempt to length the queue. That's what it was. Grant: I understand. Excerpt: Planning Commission Minutes, September 28, 2016 Page 11 of 20 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