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churches primarily. Mr. Weinstein said there is an existing church site on Bemal Avenue which is the St. Augustine Church that has empty and usable land; however not all sites are undeveloped and some could be available in the future for further redevelopment. Vice-Mayor Brown said she wants to be sure none of them are DSRSD wastewater treatment land which is called out in blue on the plan. Mr. Weinstein confirmed staff excluded the areas occupied by public uses. Vice-Mayor Brown asked when the last time was when the City allowed public institution land to be zoned to residential stating she believes it may be precedent-setting if approved. Mr. Weinstein said he could not recall and agreed it is not a common occurrence. City Manager Fialho responded that there were two publicly owned properties owned by the school district; one in the Sycamore area rezoned and developed residentially by Greenbriar Homes which was the location of the anticipated third high school. There was an elementary school site off of Hansen Drive rezoned as well to residential across the street from Hansen Park. The third location, as part of the original PUD application, there was a fairly large site zoned for an elementary school that was opted instead for senior housing. Vice-Mayor Brown said she believed it was a high school which became 110 senior homes, and Mr. Fialho confirmed this is the one he is referring to, Vice-Mayor Brown asked and confirmed that examples used are schools that have sold the land and not necessarily churches that have sold their land. Mayor Thome said he knows at one time there was a project proposed for the St. Augustine site which was the Sisters of Mercy Hospital which was opposed by the public. Therefore, it is not unprecedented that other uses other than churches are actually on church lands. Mr. Weinstein opened discussion regarding the impact analysis part of the presentation, which is water. He presented a slide that compares the project's estimated water use to two other scenarios. One is existing conditions and the other is buildout of the approved church project. Staff collected data from the project site using City utility data. To calculate church buildout water use, staff collected data from the past 5 years from two different churches in Pleasanton; the St. Augustine Church and St. Elizabeth Seton Church, and staff applied a per unit area water demand to the square footage that would be developed under that approved church project. The point to emphasize is this was not an exhaustive analysis of water demand for the project. The data presented in the graph should be only used to illustrate potential water use and the actual operations of the school or residential uses could change the outcome significantly. With these estimations in mind, the estimated water projections for the site or the approved church project at build- out are approximately 27,000 gallons per day. In comparison, the proposed project assuming 120 students is expected to generate a demand of less than 10,000 gallons of water per day with the proposed residential homes and the existing 120-unit student school, when compared to existing water use which is about 7,700 gallons per day. Mr. Weinstein said traffic is another topic of interest. Traffic Engineer Mike Tassano is present and he also calculated a.m. and p.m. and Sunday peak hour trips for each of the three scenarios analyzed for water and he summarized the results. The project with 120 students would result in a.m. and p.m. peak hour trips relatively similar to those generated by existing conditions, although a bit higher in the a.m. peak and a bit lower in the p.m. peak. Generally speaking, the approved church project due to its size would generate higher a.m. and p.m. peak hour trips than under existing conditions or the project, and those trips would be amplified during the Sunday peak period for the church having large services. He stated the key thing here is, City Council Minutes Page 6 of 28 October 6, 2015