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<br />Commissioner McAvinew stated that this does not look like a city street. It looks like a driveway. <br /> He does not see the city constructing Lafayette Street up to the Railroad to solve this issue. <br />There are other allowances that could be explored. <br /> <br />Commissioner Lipton proposed a motion to continue this item to the June 13, meeting and ask <br />Staff to help mediate a win-win between the applicant and the Fire Department and the owner on <br />the North end of the property. <br /> <br />Wendy Fickbohm, 1314 Main Street. Ms. Fickbohm asked what it is that Planning Commission <br />wants to be clarified between now and the carry-over session. Commissioner Lipton stated that <br />they are asking Staff to work with the affected parties to see if they can mediate a solution and be <br />more creative in the constraints that they have been looking at and also work with the property <br />owner to the north as part of the potential solution. <br /> <br />Ms. Fickbohm stated that she has met on several occasions with the property owner to the North, <br />there is no incentive to him to put an additional driveway in. There will be three driveway <br />accesses in front of one piece of property. The property owner to the North is not willing, she <br />has met with him on a number of occasions. She has met with the Fire Department several times <br />and asked them at what width they would find this project acceptable. It does not matter how <br />wide the driveway is, they are not interested. Ms. Fickbohm stated that they have explored every <br />option and that they have worked on this project for two years. It has been postponed from the <br />Planning Commission two times to try to work out an agreement with the Fire Board. There is no <br />need to postpone for another month. <br /> <br />Paul Wood stated that Staff is willing to accommodate some relief to the Commercial <br />Development Design Guidelines if they are talking about perimeter landscaping and setbacks to <br />make this happen. This will probably require substantial architectural revision to do that. That is <br />in the applicant’s domain, Staff can talk about issues but cannot force a redesign. <br /> <br />Ms. Fickbohm stated that they are not willing to scale down the size of their building. If they <br />scale down the size of their building to reduce it to accommodate an additional driveway, the plan <br />will not succeed. They already have their numbers worked out as to what they need to do to <br />make this an economically feasible project. Ms. Fickbohm feels that they have explored almost <br />every architectural rearrangement and realignment of this project that they can to accommodate <br />these issues. One of Ms. Fickbohm’s traffic engineers stated that one driveway access is more <br />attractive and is actually safer than when you start lining up driveways right next to each other. <br />Ms. Fickbohm does not see any alternatives to the North and she does not think the Fire Board <br />will agree to any extension no matter how wide it is, and she cannot scale down the size of the <br />project. <br /> <br />Paul Wood suggested incorporating some parking in the right-of-way to see if it opens up the site <br />plan to the point where there is more room. <br /> <br /> <br /> 14 <br /> <br />