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Weinstein: If I could just add to that really quickly too, I think it also makes sense to tackle the district as part of the Downtown Specific Plan because the downtown is really a complete organism. Its districts sort of work in conjunction with each other and it's possible as well that there might be tweaks to the Central-Commercial district as well and that could also affect how we treat the Office district, so it seems to make sense to do everything together just to make sure that the land uses are compatible and sort of work off each other. Commissioner Brown: My preference was that it be addressed as part of the Downtown Specific Plan. In fairness to the applicant, I wanted to ask the question in terms of are the timelines coincidental, which you explained they are. So if the recommendation was to wait until the Downtown Specific Plan, then that's the time I'm looking at versus approving this as a one-off, knowing that it may trigger additional properties that would potentially have to be resolved before that Specific Plan came about. Thank you. Commissioner Nagler: So there's nothing else specifically other than responses that we came up with today other that the big question that's unanswered. Commissioner Balch: For me, maybe it would just be for staff is how we would handle this Residence 1 as Gerry put forth a very good plan to do it, and I don't want my comments tonight to give it more weight to go that route, but I think that's got to be addressed. Chair Ritter: Okay, the only other thing I would like to see is that they do analysis of office/commercial; a projection like a normal real estate analysis that is probably out there already just in case there's any proposal so we know what the current and future needs are based on the market studies they've done for office, residential, and retail in Pleasanton. Can they do that for a segment of the town? Commissioner Brown: The PDA does it. Beaudin: And we also have the civic center task force analysis which is across the street. We can make sure that it gets around to the commission. Chair Ritter: But even when the proposal comes, just have that be part of the analysis so we can understand why we might have to change it based on market needs of our residents. Okay, we're good? Okay, staff, did you get enough feedback? Amos: Yes, thank you. Commissioner Balch: Are we at least more consistent for staff now? Are we a more unified message? Amos: I can say yes. No action was taken. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 22 of 22