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least from my perspective, categorically say, absolutely no way, because again, we do not have good visuals to be able to make those assessments. Commissioner Maas: For me, I am absolutely no to way on the hilltop. Commissioner Fox: And for me, I do not mind hilltops, so, it is always fun coming to the Planning Commission with a mixed bag of comments. But, the issue I have with providing a Specific Plan Amendment for a house to exceed 25 feet in height and one story on elevations exceeding 540 feet, is that that Specific Plan Amendment would open the Pandora's Box for all of the residential development standards for hillside residential. Chairperson Maas: But if they're willing to go that route or investigate or look into it and bring it back to us, then let us take it then and see what works. Like we were saying, what is general about the Commission is that what we are supposed to do is do the gray area and not be the black and white. Commissioner Blank: And this could be a gray area because I have other issues with the development than just the height or the two stories, but if we get peer review visuals that clearly show, wherever this ends up being, whether it is on the hill or off the hill, a two-story, 27-foot high home has significantly less visual impact than aone-story, 25-foot high home, would we really say, no, make it one story, 25 feet just because? Commissioner Pearce: It would go with the spirit of the Specific Plan, and I think that would be in conformance with the spirit. Commissioner Fox: And one other thing is, when we talk about how to calculate height, if we could talk about whether the turret is included or not, or whether it is just the roofline. And also if there are portions of roofs, and how we do it if a portion is a certain height, and is it maximum portion, or average. That would be good because it would be great to understand how the height is calculated according to the Municipal Code. Chairperson Maas: Enough direction? Ms. Decker: Yes, we do have. Thank you very much. And I think that, just in response to some of the comments, I think that we are very pleased with these comments and direction and that it has taken a couple of years to even get here with this plan, to have the opportunity to really discuss architecture and siting, and so forth. So I do think that there are opportunities that the applicant can work with staff to find some solutions that maybe appropriate for the structure, as well as the siting that could be found to be in conformity. And also, with that, I would like to know one more bit of direction from the Commission, and that is, oftentimes, there have been in the past, as I understand, a requirement, though we do not always require it, to have a model constructed. And I thought perhaps it might be useful, not necessarily an entire model of the entire site because that's quite a big deal, if we had just a sense of some boxes that would be placed on some cardboard topo 23