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Commissioner Blank stated that a big advantage of the first strategy was keeping parking away from the little village; but one of the diagrams show a private garage. He noted that the first and the second options look the same and inquired what the difference was between the two options. Mr. Williams stated that the first option is a BART parking structure only without parking for the private development, and private development would have its own additional internal parking structure in two places rather than being part of the BART parking structure. With respect to the second scenario, Mr. Williams stated that there would be a multi-use parking structure for both BART and the private development. Commissioner Blank inquired if there was any advantage in completely eliminating the parking on the left side. Mr. Williams said no, because the development would require a certain amount of parking that is relatively reasonably close to it. Commissioner Blank inquired if rolling the number of parking spaces in the separate structure into the multi-use parking is an option. Mr. Williams replied that it would be one very big parking structure. He added that the parking structure on the other side is necessary to be able to market the development at that side. Commissioner Blank requested confirmation that 1,250 spaces in the multi-use parking structure would be for BART. Mr. Williams said yes and added that the rest would be to cover the development on that side. Commissioner Blank noted that there would have to be some mechanism internal to that building to control access to that parking structure, since the parking garage on the left side is an amenity or an attraction so that part of the private development will have its own private parking. Mr. Williams noted that there would still be the same amount of parking either way. 3. There are two multi-use parking structures; a BART parking structure that also has development parking, and a second structure with a smaller amount of BART parking that also has development parking, possibly on top of it, so as to get additional parking needs for the private development on both sites. What is nice about this is that all of the parking is in two locations similar to the other scheme, but there could be a smaller proportion of BART parking at one location where vehicles would pay a little bit more to be closer to the station, thus balancing out the traffic and circulation on the overall site. It also maximizes the development EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, MAY 25, 2011 Page 5 of 18