Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2017 11 09

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes September 14, 2017 Page 7 of 10 Rice described the audit process as bridging the gap between what comes out of the Commission and what the results of the final project are, in order to identify trends where the final project does not match the initial review. He asked if the audit results showed any such trends. Hsu suggests that the Commission and staff discuss the scores that were low. He stated that the auditors did not have the guidelines in front of them and were acting on gut instinct, not on the actual standards. Zuccaro responded that the reason for not having the standards in front of them was to help measure if the intent of the project was being met, rather than focusing on if exact standards were being met. Brauneis noticed that bicycling and pedestrian amenities scored low and needed more focus. Dean and Zucarro asked the Commission what made the scores low and what would make the projects score higher. Hsu stated that when they couldn't walk around easily, they scored it low. He gave DELO Market as an example. Dean showed a picture of sidewalks and pedestrian access in DELO Market, a mixed -use development project, and asked what would make for a better pedestrian and bike experience in similar developments. Rice stated that greater attention to pedestrian and bicycle issues should be given close study based on this audit. Sheets asked what the Commission could have done to avoid the overhang of front bumpers on pedestrian -access sidewalk at DELO Market shown in the picture. Zuccaro stated that there is no pedestrian access from the adjoining street to the DELO Market parking lot sidewalk in the picture. There is a design guideline that requires accounting for overhangs, but that did not get translated to the DELO Market lot. An option to avoid overhang is wheel stops, but the guidelines don't encourage them. Zuccaro pointed out that a handicapped person would not have access to the DELO Market lot sidewalk at all. Dean added that the guidelines measure the parking stall, but people tend to pull right up to the curb. This is a good case for wheel stops. Brauneis suggested a landscape strip. Sheets agreed that a landscape strip or a wheel stop would work. She asked if staff had any enforcement power when they see issues like the DELO overhangs once they were already built. Hsu asked when the re -review process mentioned in the planning code is triggered. Zuccaro responded that there would need to be an extreme health or safety issue. With DELO, there are ADA-compliant access routes to all the businesses, so there is very little they can do to change it unless there is a serious safety issue. Zuccaro asked Hsu what section had the re - review process in it.