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general design and location of the signs to be acceptable. The applicant has provided three "Welcome to Pleasanton" sign options for the plaza area. The sign options would vary in shape, height, and colors (due to a printing error, Sign Options 1 and 2 are missing the silver background color that is proposed). While staff believes they will all provide an attractive "sense of arrival" for those leaving the BART station, we prefer Option 3 except with the curved shape of Option 2. Staff also recommends that the font style of the City of Pleasanton logo be used. A condition has been included that requires the details of the signs to be submitted for review and approval by the Director of Community Development. Green Building As required by the City's Green Building Ordinance, the proposed project is required to meet at least a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) "Certified" level, which is equal to a score of 40 or more credit points on the LEED Green Building Checklist for New Construction and Major Renovations. With the approved project, the applicant incorporated green building measures to allow it to qualify for at least 55 points, meeting a LEED "Silver" level with the possible addition of other measures to meet a "Gold" level. With the current proposal, the applicant is proposing to add sustainability features to allow the project to qualify for 84 points, meeting a "Platinum" level, the highest level. Some of the proposed green building measures include: use 40 percent less water than the water use baseline calculated for the office building, not including irrigation (a 41 percent reduction is proposed); reduce potable water consumption for irrigation by at least 50 percent from a midsummer baseline case (a 61 percent reduction is proposed); improve building energy performance at least 48 percent over baseline; and install on-site renewable energy systems to produce 13 percent of the building's annual energy cost (photovoltaic panels are proposed). Please see the LEED checklist on Sheet A7.01 of the development plans for the complete list of the proposed Green Building items. Staff appreciates that the applicant has significantly increased the green building measures in the project, including measures to substantially reduce the project's water demand (annual water savings for the building would be 1,190,000 gallons below baseline and annual water savings for irrigation would be 7,066,037 gallons below baseline). Landscaping, Open Space, & Public Plaza Landscape plans have been provided for the site showing existing and new planter areas around the buildings and site, including modification of the central landscaped area between the Stoneridge Corporate Plaza buildings. The landscape plan will provide a variety of trees, shrubs, and groundcover on the project site. The proposed tree sizes are generous, ranging from 24-inch-box to 60-inch-box size. Similar to the approved project, the applicant will plant small-growing trees and shrubs within CalTrans' 22-30-foot wide unpaved right-of-way between the project site and the edge of the 1-580 freeway paving. The approved project contained a parking area between the BART garage and freeway. The modified project replaces approximately half of the parking area with a new public plaza. The plaza would include concrete paving with planter areas and seat walls, decorative concrete columns and retaining walls to reduce freeway noise, a "Welcome to Pleasanton" sign, and bicycle lockers for BART patrons. Staff believes that the proposed landscape plan is attractive and generally contains sufficient landscape area around the perimeter of the structures, parking areas, and along the street frontages. The public plaza behind the BART garage is well designed and will provide an PUD-104-1M/PUD-81-22-15M, 6110/6120-6160 Stoneridge Mall Road Planning Commission Page 12 of 17