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Commissioner Balch: They're both at that corner. Beaudin: Can I just add, this is kind of a design issue and a functionality issue and I think the primary reason we looked to push it back was that the Commission at the workshop was looking at parking pretty critically and the idea of giving each unit a minimum of two spaces and having two guest parking spaces was what we were trying to achieve. The concern with leaving the garage at the front was that the drive - through tandem space; the outdoor space is essentially just a side yard patio. So the idea of moving the garage forward makes it real clear that there's a parking pad and a garage and it's still a tandem configuration and it still involves what it involves with tandem but that's the reason we picked one option over the other. Commissioner Balch: If I could just make a quick statement and to echo what staff has just said, the fact that its tandem already adds a complication that we typically don't like and then on top of the tandem, to have the garage first and then the pad second, I completely understand staffs position on that because we typically don't like tandem, or at least I think that's what we've said in the past. We don't like tandem, and then if you're adding tandem and adding this element that you have to go through, I mean, I can't see the future but I think I can foresee problems here. I can also foresee that someone's going to park in that little spot between 1 and 11 right at that little corner. Chair Ritter: Like a boat? Commissioner Balch: Well, like your car because you don't want to go through a garage to get to the pad on the other side. So....I'll say to come out in a straw poll, I'm leaning towards staff's recommendation. Commissioner Brown: Can I suggest.... Commissioner Balch: The garage is towards the back which would require you to drive through it with this configuration and staff says you flop. Commissioner Brown: The other thing I noticed though is the exit from the garage is on the east side so you're exiting towards Building 10 or did I misread the.... Commissioner Balch: It flipped. So when looking here, the door.... Commissioner Brown: Oh, I see the door in the diagram. So if you were to move that garage up to the pinch point, would you not move that door down? Commissioner Balch: The garage isn't built, so yeah, the garage you could redesign so your door is located at the southern end, or call that the west end side and then yes, you presumably create a breezeway or something. Commissioner Brown: In which case you're clear to get out of the garage with an increase in two feet. Commissioner Nagler: Well the distance between the two structures would remain the same obviously. You'd just locate the door so you could easily access past the door. EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 6 of 12