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Other Issues For a complete discussion of the proposal, please refer to the Planning Commission staff report (Attachment 7). A summary follows. • Pleasanton General Plan — The proposed project is consistent with the Land Use Map designation of the 2005 — 2025 General Plan for Retail /Highway/ Service Commercial, Business, and Professional Offices land uses, with a maximum and midpoint Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 60 percent. The proposed FAR for the overall project is 42.3 percent; for the retail portion, the FAR is 23.8 percent; and for the office portion, the FAR is 50.6 percent. • Bernal Property Specific Plan — The Bernal Property Specific Plan land use diagram and text designates the Pleasanton Gateway property for up to 745,000 square feet of retail, commercial, office, and community - serving uses. The proposed floor area is 718,151 square. The Specific Plan land use /design goal states that the individual developments should work together visually and physically as an integrated whole. The Pleasanton Gateway development is linked to the residential uses on the east side of Valley Avenue, the employment centers on the north side of Bernal Avenue, and to the future park trails on the property's south side encouraging residents and office workers to walk, rather than drive, to the Gateway stores and offices. Buildings and plaza areas are visually aligned with offsite uses. • Uses — The permitted and conditionally permitted uses for this development allows for a mix of neighborhood- and community - serving retail uses and services; encourages community - serving public and institutional -type uses; allows for the commercial and office uses to be both highway- oriented and pedestrian- oriented; and allows for the flexibility in the composition of uses to respond to future real estate market opportunities over a 10 to 15 year time frame. Staff also believes that the proposed design of the retail center allows for easy integration with a potential residential project on the office portion of the site, should the City decide that residential use is more appropriate in that location. • Operations — Safeway will operate 24 -hours per day reflecting the operating hours of the Safeway stores in the Tri- Valley area. Operating hours for the other uses are not restricted. The drive - through lanes may operate 24 hours per day, except that the drive - through lane for the pharmacy may only be used for medications; all other sales must occur within the building. Truck deliveries are conditioned to be permitted to the Safeway 24 hours per day due to its location adjoining the I- 680 /Bernal Avenue exit ramp, unless the office section is used for residential where the Safeway truck deliveries will occur from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. All other truck deliveries are conditioned to occur from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. because of their closer proximity to the Valley Avenue apartments and homes. All retail and office truck deliveries are restricted to the Bernal Avenue driveway entrance /exit. Page 7 of 10