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Excerpts/rom the Planning Commission Meeting Minutes Agenda No. 06-02 January 26, 2006 Page 5 0/6 Chair Kleebauer asked if the applicant would have a problem with that arrangement. Applicant Mark Landes, Sr. said, in proceeding with construction, the applicant would do all demolition immediately and would work the entire site concurrently. He said the slabs for both the office and commercial building would go down at the same time as the slabs are poured for the self-storage facility. He said some of the front space would be required initially for storage of equipment so equipment does not intrude into the Washington Streetscape while the units at the rear are being built. He said the buildings in the back and the front would be finished concurrently. He said the City wants to assure that the applicant will complete the commercial. He said the applicant is willing to give the City any assurance it desires, including putting up a bond. He said the point is that, when a building is relative complete, minor issues may remain that stand in the way of a certificate of occupancy. He described a hypothetical client who requires substantial interior work in order to make a unit ready. He said that, as the condition reads, he could not get a certificate of occupancy until all that work is done, and in the meantime much rentable self-storage space would stand empty, even though the front building is complete and the landscaping was in place. He noted that Development Services Director Horn had suggested that staff be provided discretion to grant a temporary occupancy permit for the self-storage element when ninety percent of the commercial-light industrial construction has been completed. He said the applicant would be willing to guarantee final completion with a bond. Community Development Director Horn noted that the certificate of occupancy applied to the exterior shell of the building, which is normally governed by a separate building permit. He said that interior alteration improvements are usually have their own building permit. He said the condition could be clarified so that it does not apply to issuance of building permits for interior alterations. Applicant Landes, Sr. thanked the Community Development Director, saying that such a condition would be satisfactory to the applicant. Chair Kleebauer said that, when the project had previously come before the Planning Commission, it was exclusively a self-storage project and she had opposed it, as had her fellow commissioners. She said the current proposal, with a commercial-light industrial element, was much improved, and, although it is not an ideal development of the property, it is a suitable proposal for a property that has laid vacant for a very long time.