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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes December 10, 2015 Page 12 of 29 2. Staff recommends the wall signs of the In -line building, shown as vertical address numbers, be removed from the PUD and all wall signs must comply with Chapter 7 of the CDDSG and Chapter 17.24 of the LMC. 3. The applicant shall remove the water tower element from the PUD package prior to recordation. 4. The applicant shall continue to work with the Parks Department on the type and location of additional trees along Highway 42, prior to recordation. 5. The applicant shall continue to work with the Public Works Department on the items listed in the September 25, 2015 memo. Each item shall be completed prior to recordation. 6. Residential and commercial development shall be constructed concurrently. Commission Questions of Staff. Moline asks Russ about "stuff' that was left off the PUD? Russ says there were notes on the PUD stating that the commercial would be built concurrently with the residential. The applicant can verify this. They were removed during the referral process without clear understanding from the planning department based on the public works request. We understand their request and staff can live with this PUD without the terms on it by simply having this condition than we can perform in the development agreement to make sure we time the building permits and the CO's together. Moline asks about the age restriction. What is the origin of this? McCartney says when staff talked about age restriction, the applicant had wanted to include residential on this development. We know that additional residential has an impact on the schools. Staff asked if you can do age restriction which typically does not come with an impact on the schools, we would work it out. The first condition is we need to have it located somewhere, that these are going to be age -restricted units that we carry forward with this project. Rice asks about the zoning issue. It becomes a bit of an alphabet soup when we start talking about designations. The way this property is currently zoned is for this to be developed commercially. What we are being asked is to change that designation and turn it into essentially half commercial and half residential. One of the concerns I have when I read this, and it is expressed in a number of the submissions received from the public, is that if we go backwards in time and when this overall development was first conceived, I'm sure there was discussion about a balance between commercial and residential. That balance was reached and the proposal was approved, and the residential got built, but none of the commercial got built. So the commercial lots remained empty. The Lanterns project which is currently being constructed was commercial property as well. We rezoned that into residential. Russ says a nuance to that is they expanded the Takoda GDP to include the office Summit. The original discussion of the residential -commercial balance of the market place was at the time, the portion of the property that was related to the Lanterns was not a part of that conversation. They expanded it to include it. Rice says that essentially what we see going on, and again this is expressed in a number of submissions from the public, is that we have these developments that will have a balance between commercial and residential, but what we end up with is more and more residential. That is a concern of mine and a concern of many people. The overall question is why should we do them? McCartney says the applicant can request anything and it is staff's job to take the request and apply it to the documents that staff uses for review (primarily technical review). We went through the steps of how we look at it. We apply it to the Comp Plan and surrounding zoning. We now have the fiscal analysis to see if this change will impact the overall services and finances of the City. Rice says this seems like a planning issue and trying to strike a balance between how much residential we build and how much commercial space we have in the City. Ultimately, that has a