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DRAFT Commissioner Allen stated that her final question is one that has come out of the Task Force and which the Commission has talked about before regarding senior housing, the same concept as Sunflower Hills. She noted that there are certain types of specialty housing that do not have as much of an impact on schools and on traffic to the degree that those are specified within the development. She asked Mr. Tassano if she understood it correctly that senior housing has only about one-quarter the impact of a single-family home or about two trips a day or so. Mr. Tassano replied that the trips per day is about 3.5, but for the peak hour, which is what Commissioner Allen is probably referring to, it is about .25 per unit where a single-family home is 1. Commissioner Allen asked Mr. Tassano to comment on what would be the expected impact on traffic to the degree that there is senior housing, and what it means to the community from a traffic perspective. Mr. Tassano replied that senior housing takes fewer trips during the peak hours, even for 55-and-older communities, where sometimes only one of the two people are working, which means fewer peak-hour trips. He indicated that the data just shows that seniors do not make as many trips. He noted that that was the assumption made on the new senior community up on Stoneridge Drive which is not yet constructed. He added that the City has existing senior facilities that produce fewer trips. Commissioner Posson referred to the issue of schools and inquired if the impact on schools is one of the impacts evaluated in the EIR process. Mr. Dolan replied that there will be an analysis but that it is pretty simple and is really already accomplished. He indicated that the School District knows what kind of child yield it gets out of every unit, and that factor is used to identify how many children there are per household and at what level. He added that that information in included, but CEQA law basically says that mitigation shall be payment of the State impact fees. He indicated that the City has been very fortunate that the School District has been able to negotiate higher payment, but there is some acknowledgment among almost all the parties that it is not necessarily adequate. He added that it is a dilemma, but the reality is the RHNA numbers keep coming; the City tried to fight them and lost, and that is how the City got in this deficit and how the City ended up losing so much rezoning and so much land recently, and why the new cycle is upon the City so quickly because the City did not do the last time in a timely fashion. Referring to the fiscal feasibility reports, Commissioner Posson Ritter noted that they were a draft and that it is his understanding that that is because of the uncertainties and it was just to get us within the ballpark. Mr. Dolan said that is correct. DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 9/25/2013 Page 22 of 28