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that out. We have a very nice plan for doing that. We have a partially paved parking lot, a partial gravel pit, and even the partially paved lot is breaking down a bit and that's going to cost about $75,000 to get that paved and up to a nice standard. The building itself, being constructed in 1979 on self-help architecture, we need some improvements in there and we've mapped that out and will cost about $280,000. And finally, it was built to code at the time. It was unincorporated land. It was up to code at the time, but we would like to bring it up to code now at a cost of about $320,000. The plan that we've been working with Mr. Houston on is going to give us the kind of revenue that we need to make the church attractive, to make it continue to be functional as a place of worship. It's going to allow us to continue our mission. We have the resources to go on as we have been, but some of these things are catching up with us and in order to really have the cash to make these larger expenditures, we need a project such as this. I don't want to take any more time, but I would like to recognize the members that we have here tonight in support of the project and just ask them to stand for a moment. Thank you. Guy Houston, Applicant: Thank you John. Now I wanted to talk about the project details in particular. In summary, we have 5 lots. We think that's a low impact on the local community there. They are one-story homes. It's a country character trying to keep with that neighborhood. They are primarily Craftsmen style homes. The scenic neighborhood improvements—there will be bike lanes and by undergrounding the power lines we think we can take a lot of the visual clutter out of there. One thing they've been doing in our work with the neighbors and talking with them about what would be a real benefit is they talked about people speeding through that area and whether they're Pleasanton residents or not doesn't really matter. But, the idea came about of the pedestrian flashing signals, and so we would like to propose to pay for two of the flashing signals with locations to be determined and I would assume one in each direction that could try to help calm those. I know that they're in the City of Pleasanton. My parents live over in the Highland Oaks area and there's one right on Foothill Road as you approach Highland Oaks and it seems to be very effective. So that's something we would like to propose because that's something the neighbors were very interested in. Ritter: Could you wrap it up and then we'll maybe have the public comment and let you come back and answer some more questions. Houston: Okay, real quick then-the visuals on the homes themselves; we did some 3-D versions of the homes so you can see what they look like. That's Lot 3, Lot 4 and then Lot 5. The outstanding issues and the discussion points I would like to bring up. I think these are really the important things. Staff identified issues and there's been some outstanding issues. The one that staff talked about before was that no development shall occur within the 20-foot setback or within 20 feet of the riparian vegetation. We frankly did not know of the riparian vegetation requirement that was in the City of Pleasanton. That was something we didn't know once we submitted, and staff responded back to us. What our solution to that is and this is something you haven't seen yet and is different from what you have is we have adjusted all of our lots and the placement of the buildings to be able to accommodate what staff wants. Actually, I think EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, January 13, 2016 Page 3 of 22