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Commissioner Roberts stated that the project is extremely well designed but that it would not be r wrong to go back and discuss other possible uses for the site. She agreed with Commissioner Harvey that this is the perfect place for the project, buffering any residential or other use behind it from the railroad tracks and an extremely noisy and busy intersection. Commissioner Arkin amended his motion to continue the application to the next Planning Commission meeting at which staff would bring back a report and analysis of: (1) an aerial picture of the intersection showing the existing General Plan zoning and the existing/approved/ proposed projects for the area; (2) the feasibility or limitations and constraints of using the site for affordable housing; and (3) the possibility of using the transportation corridor in the area for a light-rail or other transportation system. Commissioner Sullivan seconded the motion. ROLL CALL VOTE AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: Commissioners Arkin, Maas, Roberts, and Sullivan Commissioner Kameny None None The Planning Commission recessed for a break at 8:30 p.m. Chairperson Maas reconvened the meeting at 8:35 p.m. r b. PUD-99-1-2M, Mardel LLC Application for a major modification to allow a one-year extension of the planned unit development (PUD) approval for a new 12-lot residential subdivision located at 4456 Foothill Road. Zoning for the property is PUD-RDR/LDR (Planned Unit Development - Rural Density ResidentiallLow Density Residential) District. Heidi Jo Kline presented the staff report, explaining the history of the application and the site. She indicated that the PUD project was originally approved in 1999 for the Lemoines, and the parcel was eventually subdivided into three lots with Mardel owning the eastern portion where the 12 homes were to be built. She stated that the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) and Ann Sorensen, adjacent property owner, have an access easement over the northern private road on the property. She added that the applicant would provide EBRPD with $145,000 to build a staging-area road leading to the EBRPD property and for related signal and intersection improvements on Foothill Road. Ms. Kline explained that the PUD approval would expire on October 19, 2001, unless the applicant records its final map, which process was been slowed down by unexpected delays with regard to its environmental permits. She advised that the applicant now has all those permits and is in the process of completing a few final map requirements. Ms. Kline indicated that the Planning Director had determined that this would be a minor change to the PUD, and notices were sent out to neighbors within a I,OOO-radius of the project site. No comments were received from the neighbors, but after the Planning Director approved the extension, Commissioner Sullivan appealed that decision. A second notice was sent out, and one neighbor on Camelia Court on the east side of Foothill Road opposite the .-- October 10,2001 Page 9 PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES