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market will drive this and this detail will need to be determined. He is concerned about the location of the retail of Lot 2 and 3, which does not make sense to him. It is not clear whether it is drive up retail or people outside or whether it is retail for people within the TOD. He agrees with the comment about live /work units and encouraged the task force to do detailed research. If allowed, a subset of live /work or a special category might be taken because some work better than others. Because the City is a Priority Development Area (PDA), he questioned if there were grant funds to do something for undergrounding a portion of Owens and encouraged the task force to look at all options. He also agrees with Chair Olson- -the City may want to consider engineering special transit facilities for the school district because in this particular area, there will be a lot of young kids going to elementary school. Overall, he thanked the team for doing a fantastic job. Planning Commissioner Jennifer Pearce requested a description from Mr. Reber on the narrowing of Owens. Don Reber, BRE, said their primary concern is the parking configuration along that frontage to make sure it does not go all the way down and eat up space to get the density. Beyond that, he feels it is more of a community issue and they are willing to live with the ultimate outcome. Some of it would be way beyond the scope of their project from a financial standpoint. Commissioner Pearce thanked Will Fleissig for his work and input and wished he had come into process earlier on. She echoed the need for flexibility and would love to see a park. She thinks it is critical to narrow Owens as it speaks to this project as a walk able TOD, but questioned whether it is financial feasible to do so. She is hearing the developers and the task force coming closer together than previously, which is good, and said her final concern is affordable housing. It is not only a legal but also a moral requirement of the community to provide it and do it in the best way possible. Planning Commissioner O'Connor said he has the same concerns around affordable housing and schools. Part of the school issue is a parking issue; at 1.5 spaces per unit coupled only with 1 visitor parking space for every 10 units. He discussed Dublin's study and what they felt was needed. In the last 2 -3 years, there were many complaints from residents that they could not find parking, but he was not sure if their mix is different. Similarly, in listening to some of the lawsuit issues, if more affordable housing is provided all of the workers could live here and would not have to be traveling back and forth. But, the reality is, if the community provides that many more jobs today than we have housing, we should all be working in Pleasanton which is not the case. Only 25% of residents work within the City and he is concerned about parking, especially if there are no schools nearby and there is no transportation to schools. He also thinks a lot more emphasis was placed on retail. He thought the group was looking for affordable housing and doing a TOD development with people closer to home and out of their cars. He suggested retail should be the type residents would need on a daily basis, i.e., a small store or dry cleaning. He also thinks retail in the City is and has been suffering and does not know how much more could be supported. He envisioned there would be ground -floor retail to support those buildings and not putting it all into one area or "beefing up" Owens Drive to make this a second main street that might attract people from other parts of the City, which he thinks would be a bad idea. He also looked at the list of retail uses and asked that it be more tailored. Councilmember Sullivan said he was also on the task force and its goal was to get a lot of community participation and get community acceptance. He thanked the members for their work and Will Fleissig who added a lot to the process, as well as staff. As far as consensus, he thinks Joint Workshop Minutes Page 8 of 13 December 16, 2010