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Commissioner Balch: Okay. PG&E underground—it's not getting anywhere with me, but I'll just ask, is that a requirement? Not a requirement? How do you handle that? Amos: It's actually a condition of approval. It's in the draft conditions, number 85. Commissioner Balch: Okay, and then Residence 3 setback to the north five feet. I think that's okay, right? Four feet is the required setback between property lines? Amos: The PUD offers flexibility. Commissioner Allen: What is the standard though? Amos: The standard would be 10 feet. If it was the 0 (office) zoning district, it would be 10 feet. Commissioner Balch: And do you know what this one is? Amos: I believe its five feet. Commissioner Balch: And we talked about the communication. Commissioner Nagler: I don't have questions. I have comments. Chair Ritter: Okay, let's start with comments. Commissioner Allen: I have one more question for Mike. Mike, and I apologize I didn't ask you earlier, if we were to preserve all three trees, there are three heritage trees and one is being removed. What would it take to keep all three? Amos: I'm just going to point out where this tree is. It's right here, so the third tree is right here. Commissioner Allen: Okay, so that answers my question. Chair Ritter: Okay, let's move on with comments. Commissioner Nagler: Let me just go through the issues. First of all just to repeat something I said at the workshop, I appreciate the creativity of this project and the fact that it is a bit out of the ordinary, but in a way that is of high quality and helps us move the architecture in downtown Pleasanton along so that we don't end up without the interest that evolving architecture often brings, particularly the City core, and that this project asks us to be more creative in the type of architecture that fits our design criteria, I appreciate that, and I think that's important. Therefore, specifically on the use of various materials, I appreciate the point that Commissioner Allen made about the siding. I would want the design guidelines to be different in some ways but they are not. And so I would support asking that the applicant change or remove the metal siding. I'm okay with the metal roof because the guidelines as you point out are not as stringent on the point, but also I think it adds to the interest of the architecture. There's nothing unattractive or cheap about it, and I think that the channel metal roofing is very much an EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 10 of 21