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John Wiegand: Good evening. I'm glad to be back here tonight. I am the corporation president for the Pleasant View Church of Christ and we have some of our members here tonight in support of our proposal. We emphasized when we were here in January this sale is going to be an incredible benefit to the church. We've always been able to maintain our operating budget in balance but we've never really had the ability to bring some capital improvements to the property that are necessary to our situation. For example, we've been using septic tanks. We really need to hook up to the City of Pleasanton's sewer system. The cost of that is at least $95,000. We need to repave the driveway, repave the paved part of the parking lot and pave the gravel pit. That's going to cost about $75,000 and there's a number of infrastructure issues in our building; matters that were compliant with the code that was in place at the time the building was constructed but we really want to bring the building up to code now and that's going to cost $300,000 to $350,000. So there has been a lot of controversy in Pleasanton about churches wanting to sell their property and leaving the community. We want to sell this unused part of our property because we are committed to staying in this community and the funds from selling this unused part of the property is what's going to allow us to be able to do this. We heard the comments in January about wanting to make this project consistent with the General Plan so we worked with our developer and I think we now have, to my understanding, without having any expertise in this area, we're now compliant with the General Plan so we're asking for your approval of the project. Thank you. Chair Ritter: All right, that's the last speaker card so we'll pull it back to the Commission and decide what we want to do. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Commissioner Balch: I'll come forth and say I was the one that asked about the well question. I asked about it mostly because the condition was initially drafted to say the well could potentially be used for construction as well as irrigation after the fact and given that I know construction water for dust mitigation and what not can be significant, I didn't personally want the well or potable water being used for that. I wanted recycled water to be used. That being said, I didn't go as far as staff's revised recommendation to cap the well. I thought about it significantly and I will say I'm still there thinking about it because having been raised on a property that had a well and knowing a little about them, it's a great benefit if this property is allowed to retain the well. I didn't know it had a well in the initial workshop. I bring it up now as something to consider. In terms of the overall project, I was on the minority side at the time because I was okay with the five, but I kind of think this is everything we mutually said. I personally think this is everything in line with what we asked if not, in my opinion, a little bit more. So I'm extremely pleased that staff and the applicant worked together to get to this point. Chair Ritter: Staff, Diane brought up a good question on the well. Could you help us answer that one? EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 4 of 8