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Mayer: Leach: create the design. If we go with those rigid standards, then we have a different kind of development and it doesn't make sense to access it off the back or to have this kind of look to it. You just put lots along there and you get into the problem of the curve cuts on Pine Street, if you start running in a street in the front or some type of cul-de-sac, the whole site is so impacted by the street and the automobiles that you lose the division of the project. It's a difficult site and we've gone through a lot of this kind of discussion, both with the Planning Commission and with staff, and I think your Planning Commission has dealt with it pretty thoroughly with those kind of issues. They are good issues, but there is a reason for planned development and this type of site has it as much as anywhere you have that kind of flexibility. You're saying that if people have parties or something, the people will be parking on Pine Street, isn't that correct? There is no other parking available. They can park on Pine and there are two extra parking places behind each of the houses. Mayer: Basically, the driveway garage, correct? to the Leach: If you're visiting someone who lives in a different development, you pull into their driveway. Pine street currently doesn't have any parking restrictions on it and occasionally people park on it. If you look at the traffic flow on it, it's not the kind of collector street that even if people did park up and down it, the speed limit is not that great and it is a residential street. It's not designed to be a 40 - 50 mile/hr, street. Mayer: It does have a higher speed limit than the downtown street. Lathrop stated that his comments were prepared before he read the minutes of the Planning Commission. He had viewed several 37