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for the opportunity for residential, because what would come in the future is uncertain. <br />He noted that since this is a major desirable site, this could be a site for major <br />employment or high tech or financial industry or hotel. <br /> <br />Mr. Dolan noted that n <br />because HCD allows the City to have up to 50 percent of its housing inventory <br />designated as mixed-use with the understanding that it could go the other way. He <br />added that just like on the Hacienda sites, they will be counted but it could go the other <br />way as office is still allowed. He indicated that if that happens, because of the <br />Settlement Agreement, the City would need to find another site to replace the units in <br />that particular case. He stated that what it comes down to is that it is not required, and <br />when the City gets to that topic, staff will have to pick up the right number to insert for <br />this site somewhere within the envelope of what the City will approve. <br /> <br />Chair Narum commented that the way to work with it is to designate it as mixed-use. <br /> <br />Mr. Dolan stated that it could be part of the 50 percent, and HCD expects that amount of <br />uncertainty. <br /> <br />Commissioner Blank inquired, for planning purposes, if building the extension is like a <br />15-year project. <br /> <br />John McPartland, member of the BART Board of Directors for District 5, stated that for <br />BART to be able to build conventional BART to Downtown Livermore immediately, <br />BART would have to print its own money. He indicated that they are at a juncture <br />where they are working now to determine what the best combination is for phasing the <br />project, going as far as they can, and having intermodal connections with other transit <br />venues to be able to basically show the powers that be at the national and state levels <br />as well as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission that BART is moving forward. <br />He stated that BART hopes to be putting the phased project into operation substantially <br />sooner than ten years. <br /> <br />Commissioner Blank stated that the BART plan showed a station in downtown <br />Livermore and a station by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as their <br />preferred sites. He noted that it seemed to him that the station downtown has a fair <br />amount of track running underground and obviously those on the freeway is on a grade. <br /> <br />Mr. McPartland replied that it was not a fair amount but almost all of it is underground in <br />the downtown area; however, this is subject to change. He stated that the existing plan <br />is to leave the freeway at Portola Avenue, go down Portola Avenue, be underground at <br />a station in the downtown area, and then exit at some point out of the immediate <br />threshold of the downtown area before it comes back up to grade. <br /> <br />Commissioner Blank inquired whether the time at which the Dublin/Pleasanton BART <br />station is no longer the end BART station is the point at which the downtown Livermore <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2011 Page 15 of 21 <br /> <br />