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development proposals on this property in his time with the City as Planning Commissioner he admitted that this is probably the best so far. He concurred that it's a difficult piece of property to do anything with. After doing some measuring and looking at it, he wrote down eliminate lot 8 and then he went on to make some comments as to what benefits that would provide to the project. 1.) It allows the lot one dwelling to move east, sufficient to make the roadway 24 feet and a 30 foot access easement. 2.) It allows lot 1-7 dwellings to move north, sufficient to allow 24 feet in a 30 foot access easement. 3.) It allows a public alley on the east to be 24 feet wide, or larger, and to be 2-way to solve an awkward traffic movement. 4.) It allows ease of snow removal, especially on the south side where the 6 foot high privacy fence will shade the drives and the alley all winter long. 5.) It will allow a greater separation between dwellings to open up the development for both the existing neighbors as well as the traffic on Pine Street. Lathrop stated that he made all those comments, and, then read the Planning Commission Minutes that were provided, and now he's confused, because they talked about their approval based on eliminating lot 5 and a few other things, then it dawned on him that Leach must of had nine lots at one time, which in fact he did. My comments still hold true. He did feel that this would be a far superior project on this piece of property, but this would be a far superior project, in the long term for the City of Louisville, with one less dwelling in it. Davidson: What kind of problem would parking be along a major collector like that, because it's not exactly a residential collector. There are really no houses actually facing Pine Street until you get into old town. Phare: Our plans and our recommendation is to prohibit parking on there. Collector streets also have unmarked bike lanes on them, so when you're parking you're not only narrowing the street for two lanes of traffic, you also have some impact on bicycle traffic. It does present some other problems that we prefer not to deal with, such as: having vehicles in the way when we street sweep, snow plow, and other maintenance activities. We didn't anticipate that this would imply parking on collectors, because our standards are to have no parking on collectors. We don't sign it until 38