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Mr. Burgett noted that and its notion as a financial term; however, in this case, there is a return on planning investment and political investment. He stated that one thing not mentioned was that there was a meeting held where Mr. Williams, Mr. Fleissig, Mr. Dolan, and Mr. Paxson attended to address ABAG and MTC regarding the status of Hacienda as a Priority Development Area (PDA). He indicated that they tried to make the case that this project is an identified PDA and should become a PDA with its 20,000 employees, its strategic location on the I-580/I-680 intersection, and the idea of the infrastructure costs, as there is more work to do with the inclusion of the BART piece, assuming it is adopted and added to the guidelines. Mr. Burgett indicated he hopes the Planning Commission, with staff, will be able to say if there is anything else that needs to be done to allow the City to be eligible to go after any funding that is only allowed for those which have the designation of a PDA. He stated that he thinks that this is a kind of return on investment of the 1.5 years of Task Force work and hopes to complete that investment to get the highest level of return which would enable the highest quality development. Mr. McPartland stated that this entire process started as a result of litigation, and he could have and would have understood if the response would have been reactionary; however, this Commission and the people who helped work it did it intelligently, cooperatively, and proactively. He praised staff for a job well done. James Paxson, Executive Director of Hacienda Business Park, stated that this is the culmination of a lot of work, and for him, it is one of the most exciting projects they have undertaken in the P. He indicated that this is an important missing piece of the 1.5 years of the planning process and is something that the community will be proud of it, with the groundwork laid thus far allowing for things to really bring great things forward. He thanked the Commission for its support and stated that Hacienda looks forward to bringing back plans at some point so this Commission can actually see it built. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. 7. MATTERS INITIATED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS Commissioner Blank indicated that he would like to make some corrections to the May 11, 2011 Minutes which will be considered at the next meeting: With respect to the last sentence of the third paragraph on page 7, he indicated that he believes Mr. Sapone referred to a large retail establishment and did not Modify the first sentence of the last paragraph on page 12 to read as follows: Commissioner Blank agreed noted that both Commissioners Olson and Pentin are right PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2011 Page 20 of 21