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Hagen: I don't have any specific background. There are a few differences. One, the Lester property is not in the city, it's in the county. So it was a county property that was hooking up to City water services. Without knowing specifics I don't know if the capping of the well was a county requirement or a city requirement, but there may have been some special circumstances involved in that. Commissioner Balch: The other thing with wells though is that generally if you have a well, it's not a metered thing. You don't pay for the water you pump underground which is why the state is very interested in it. Capping them or frankly, the state might want to put a water meter on them. I don't know, but not necessarily from this body. But that's why it's such a benefit because its water from the aquifer for the property. Chair Ritter: So are these Pleasanton water or all through the well? Weinstein: Yeah, so I think the issue for staff and I'll echo what Commissioner Balch said, we're not going to be vociferous advocates for getting rid of the well. That said, we added this condition in response to comments we've received because this is an aquifer that we all rely on. When they get water from the well that won't be City of Pleasanton water but we get a lot of water from the aquifer especially during years of drought. We all depend on this aquifer, and the aquifer is really complex and it's unclear, it's hard to ascertain how the water flows through it, but this is the aquifer that we get our water from during drought years and its fossil water. It's water that's been built up over tens of thousands of years and it's not being replenished probably at a sustainable rate so it behooves us to conserve the water as best we can and to the extent we can limit the amount of wells that are out there, that's something that benefits the City's overall water supply because again, it's something we depend on during drought years. That said, this one well is not going to make a huge impact on our overall water supply but it is in the City's interest to limit wells in and around the city. Chair Ritter: Does the church use its own well or City water? Hagen: City water. Chair Ritter: The new development will use City water or well water? Hagen: City water. Chair Ritter: And well water for only the landscaping? Hagen: Only for Lot 3. Houston: When I checked with Zone 7 their big emphasis was, we don't want you in the water business so you can't be exporting this property. In the big picture, it's a big piece of property at 1.5 acres and taking care of fruit trees and any other agriculture that might be on the property might make it more pleasant. It's not going to have a tremendous impact on the aquifer, but you can imagine like at the recycling center, people could drive up and take out 250 gallons per and go to their homes off of that well, yeah, that would be a problem. So Zone 7's feeling was as long as you don't export it off of the property, then we're good. EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 5 of 8