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Although Planning Commissioners and City Council members were generally comfortable with the recommended list of sites presented, there was discussion of the list and comments on specific sites as follows: • Several Planning Commissions supported a list that included more acreage than the minimum required to meet the City's share of the regional housing need. One Commissioner suggested more sites in south Pleasanton would be a more equal distribution. At the suggestion of a City Council member, staff is including a map of high density housing areas (Exhibit 0) that was previously available to Housing Element Task Force members. • A suggestion that additional density be accommodated on TOD sites such as the Stoneridge Shopping Center, which is currently proposed to accommodate 400 units at a minimum of 40 units per acre, and Carr-America currently at 30 units per acre. See Sites and Proposed Land Use Changes section in this agenda report. • A concern that 345 units was too many for the Auf der Maur site, and that the high density residential portion of that site should be reduced to 10 acres from 11.5. • Recognition that Site 18 (Downtown Site) was a good housing site close to downtown and the ACE train but development at 30 units per acre may not be compatible with the scale of existing residential development in this area. There was also support for reserving this site for a future library expansion or other civic use. Several members of the public and site representatives also spoke during the public hearing. Correspondence received just prior to the Workshop included letters or e-mails from Citizens for a Caring Community, EBHO, Kiewit, a neighbor of the CM Capital site, the owner of the CM Capital Site, and several Pleasanton residents. This correspondence is included in Attachment 23. PLANNING COMMISSION DISCUSSION Three persons spoke at the Planning Commission public hearing. Pat Costanza, representing Kiewit Properties, urged the Commission to include Site 11 in the list of properties to be rezoned, as it had been one of the highest scoring sites on the evaluation criteria, and the fact that only a small proportion of multifamily housing would be located in east Pleasanton. If the site was not included, he asked that the Commission support the preparation of an East Pleasanton Specific Plan on a schedule to conclude by second quarter of 2013. Nancy Allen, a resident from the Danbury Park neighborhood, questioned why the Commission would support a list that included 238 units more than are required to meet the City's housing need. She supported reducing the size of the area to be rezoned on the Auf der Maur property to 8 or 9 acres. Steve Dunn of Legacy Partners (Site 14) noted that Legacy Partners had been involved in the entire Housing Element process and that the Kiewit and Legacy sites had been fully vetted. He concurred that more units were appropriate in the East Pleasanton area, and that Legacy had a direct vehicular connection to 1-580. He also asked that the Planning Commission recommend to the City Council that the East Pleasanton Specific Page 4 of 12