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D/'i{ft Minlltes Excerpt - Joint Hoard/Planning COlI/lIlissiun Work Sessio/l Oc(o!Jer 19, 2006 6 uncovered. She asked that if the City goes the route of requiring additional parking spaces for large homes, that they not necessarily require them to be covered spaces. Boardmemher Chin wondered, if a homeowner wanted to add four bedrooms to a three- bedroom home, would additional ofT-street parking also be required? Commissioner Dlugosh indicated that the application in this instance would be denied unless the remodel included provision for more off-street parking. Commissioner Collier expressed concem about the Building Department's use of the tenn "bedroom" to spaces exceeding 90 square feet, and that it needs to be explained to applicants. Planning Manager Pollart, noting that the Planning Department would make the detennination of parking requirements, regardless of what the addition is called, and said that this situation might be a reason to go in the direction of square footage rather than ten11inology. Community Development Director Horn added that definitions would have to be clear to avoid a proliferation of applications Cor approvals involving dens, home offices, recreation rooms and so on to avoid the requirement for additional off-street parking. Residential Condominium Conversions Planning Manage.' Pollart tumed next to the residential condominium conversion process. She noted that existing regulations arc that proposals involving up to laur units arc subject to obtaining use pe1111its. The GZA has been seeing a lot of such applications in both RO and RD Districts. New units, she explained, already trigger the Site Plan Review process, with the ZEO doing the administrative approval. Currently, the Engineering and Transportation Department examines Parcel Map applications. For this process, plans are forwarded to the Planning Depal1ment for a so-called "Planner's Report" to indicate conCorrnance with the Subdivision Map Act and the General Plan. The Engineering and Transportation Department takes the Parcel Map application, along with the Planner's Report, to the City Council for approval, with neither a Planning Commission nor Board of Zoning Adjustments recommendation required. With applicants who split the process and apply far conversion to condominiums apart from building construction, the BZA gets involved only from the LIse pe1111it standpoint. Accordingly, Planning staff recommends deleting the Zoning Code section that requires the use pennit because it involves only how the land is divided, not something over which the BZA nomlally has purview today. Referencing the question that Boardmember Marr had raised earlier about Mulford Gardens parking, Ms. Pollart said that staff is recommending that for the RO District, parking be the same as for RS, RD and RS-40 Districts. Currently, she added, the code requires the RO duplexes to have only three off-street parking spaces, whereas an RD District duplex requires fOllr spaces. Depending on Commissioners' input, the Planning Department will next generate specific amendment language to submit to the Planning Commission, the Board of Zoning Adjustments and the City Council to approve the changes. Boardmember Chin requested a clarification about the Parcel Map process, In response, Ms. Pollart reiterated that the Parcel Map process, in and of itself, requires no recommendation from either the Board of Zoning Adjustments or the Planning Commission before going to the City