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DRAFT balance is because she gets a little uncomfortable telling applicants what to do, particularly because they are meeting the required Green Building points. Chair Blank agreed and added that he thinks one of the challenges in this regard is that the Commission does not tell a developer who has met the required standard of 50 points what they have to do, and Commissioner Posson's proposal would be telling the developer how it should be done. He admitted this was a tough one and proposed that following the Commissioners' comments, he would like to re-open the public hearing and ask the developer what their incentive might be for installing the panels. Commissioner O'Connor suggested that those points could be swapped for other points. Commissioner Narum stated that she does not want to tell the developers how to engineer where they will put their Green points. Chair Blank agreed and added that if the Commission will start moving points around, then maybe the City should not have points and just get rid of the whole program. He noted that the ordinance says that they have to be above this threshold and they are good once they get there; but if the Commission does not like the way they got above the threshold, then the system needs to be changed. Commissioners Pearce and O'Connor agreed. Commissioner Narum stated that she did not think the affordable housing piece is within the Planning Commission's purview and that the Commission has never weighed in on that. She noted that the Commission might want to consider some kind of statement that the housing folks would be involved more in the front end of the discussion since the Commission has spent a lot of time and energy in getting to this point, all based on having affordable housing. Other than that, she stated that she thinks it is a great project, and she likes the look of it; although she does not think it necessarily has the Pleasanton look, she thinks it is an appropriate look for the site. Chair Blank stated that for the record, while he is a big supporter of the Pleasanton look, he did say at the Work Session that because of the uniqueness of this property, the project does not have quite as much of the Pleasanton looks as one might expect in the Downtown or in some other places such as the Bernal Corners. He added that he was not sure he liked the yellow color. Commission O'Connor commented that he thinks the colors are Pleasanton colors. Commissioner Pearce agreed with the earlier discussion about the Green points and noted that the Commission has been doing Green points for a long time. She added that if the Commission wants to require more points, that conversation can take place in the future. She indicated that she was comfortable with asking that Energy Star appliances be used if available because it sounds like there was a pretty good dialogue DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 3/27/2013 Page 18 of 22