The idea of a conceptual plan is an informal, non-binding dialogue between Planning Commission members and City Council members to ask questions like: What do you like? What don't you like? What suggestions or recommendations do you have to improve the project?

The ability to transfer that product across the street, as John mentioned, once a day. We're told it's less than a minute when they do cross. It's incredibly important to them, and the location of the site being across from Qubus is also, of course, important.

Because I think if it becomes an issue in the future, I personally would prefer it happen late in traffic or early in the morning, two o'clock in the morning kind of thing.

I am against an easement because it's tied to the property. I'd rather have a license with the user, if the user leaves, the license leaves.

I think when we look even across the street at French Lake and compare ourselves to the cubes over there, we probably have, I would say, at least double the quantity in terms of density and distribution of those trees within those buffer areas on our final plans, because we recognize that's an important piece here to ensure that we're screening that area.

And for me, I'm not worried about that because you're across the street from a road and an industrial area, and we probably had that as medium density housing, townhouses to the south, townhouses south of that. But I don't see that as being somebody's backyard. I don't see that as being the front yard of that property.

For me, that north side parallel to 117th, add some pizzazz there. Because that's what people are going to see driving by, it's closest to a road that a lot of people are on and heavy commuter traffic.

I am not sitting here saying 128 feet is too close. 128 feet is not too close. It's that that's for semi-truck parking, which could be very industrial looking, loud, whatever. Maybe that parking lot was what was too close.

For me, I'd rather set a high default because anybody can always come in and ask for an exception, right? You can come in and say, look, there really isn't. For example, the case we just looked at, yes, it's a residential area, but the house isn't close to that property line, right? The actual house is already 100 feet back.

What makes this so difficult is that there are different residential uses. We keep saying residential, but there's single-family, there's townhomes, there's apartments.

If we're just talking about Balsam, I mean, there's really two vacant properties. This property and the property next to Rinri. Would it make sense, rather than keeping it open-ended, to put in 20 feet for both buildings and parking lots?

The reason for the zero lot line off the front sidewalk was to have it immediately accessible to the sidewalk. That was the purpose of the setback line. But that was the reason.