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come back to the East side and start shifting that around in the future. He added that if the City is going to plan it, he would rather plan the East side and not have to come back and touch it. He noted that he would be willing to go with a little more high-density, but he certainly thinks that 50/50 percent is not the right mix; 65 percent would be about where he would want to be on single-family and no more than 35 percent on high-density. He added that he could go less than that for high-density, but he would target it at 35 percent. He stated that again, he does not know about the UGB and whether that block needed to be developed in order to fund the road, and the reason he was looking at it is if the City did not find the room. Commissioner Olson commented that Commissioner Posson stated it very eloquently. He indicated that his sense is that the mix should be consistent with other areas of the City, and the City should look at the proportional amount to meet the RHNA demands for this development as well as across the entire City. Commissioner Pearce stated that at the Task Force level, the theme that came up over and over again was balance, and it is not only balance within this development in terms of matching, or at least coming close to, the mix with the rest of the City, but balance with regard to RHNA numbers throughout the City. She indicated that this was a real driving force in the housing element discussions. She noted that she would hate to be perceived as, or actually be, dumping an inordinate amount of high-density housing here, and echoed what the other Commissioners have said, which she thought reflects a significant amount of the Task Force discussions. 4. Should multi-family housing sites be centrally located to help create a community local point or more disbursed? Chair Blank stated that he thinks it is really hard to answer this question without seeing some proposed plans and layouts. He indicated that, again, he would be looking for balance and does not want to see all the multi-family housing units in one location because that unbalances the property. He noted that some multi-family housing is certainly going to form its own unit because of the way it is put together, but it depends on what kind of communities get developed. He added that other than saying that he want a balance, he does not know that he has enough information to really answer that question with specificity. Mr. Dolan stated that he would like to give a little more background on what the genesis of this question was. He explained that the Task Force had to come up with a land use pattern, and it does not know what the projects will look like. He noted that what really came up in the Task Force dialogue is that when staff and the consultants think about the fact that some density needs to be accommodated out there, and it sounds like they may be headed towards less than more, but you would usually put the higher density together around a central community point where there is walking distance to the retail and easy access to transit, have the park right there, and make a community out of it, the center and together, the reaction of the Task Force was that nobody really wants that much of that, so put a little piece over in the corner and separate it out. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 22, 2013 Page 22 of 30