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this kind of noise coming and getting the commercialized parties and all, it seems City people are caring about it but I would ask them to reconsider and go for option 1 and not option 3. I live on Bryce Canyon Court and for five years I've liked the city and it was my dream to be living here and enjoy the good parts of Pleasanton. I had to think about all of these things and I really appreciate if you guys would consider option 1 to keep it the way it was before. I don't like option 3 and thank you for considering this. Karthikeyan Radhakrishnan: I'm a new house owner and I believe I share boundaries with them, but I haven't exactly measured them. So I could vouch for what these guys told you that the expectation from you is very high. I work for a company in Menlo Park called Facebook and I commute, but I still decided to come here because I really thought my two- year -old son would have a good life here. The schools are great. The neighborhood is great and my neighbors are great. I'm so disappointed to see that you guys sat on something like this for eight years just talking codes. Codes are governed by spirit and not really by words. It is the words that guide you, so one of the things that people keep saying is this noise stuff. Human voices aren't noise. It is when people sing together, and somebody there said they never sang in a year and that's completely not true. I've been here for five months and I've heard groups of people singing. So I think that is not a good estimation. I mean I did see some very insight focus come from you guys in following this thought, but let me just share what my thoughts are. So noise is one. The second thing is, so as Masons as free Masons as a concept as a society is very honorable, is something you admire in concept, but they have to act to what they stand for and what their mission is. Renting out is not the mission, right? A church operating a preschool is very much in alignment with their mission. You're offering a service that complements the people around you, right? So if they need to make money, I would actually argue that you should run a service that complements the community around you, right? And in no way renting out complements, it actually goes the other way. Because you're renting to people you completely do not know which is exactly the Airbnb problem, anyway they come to your homes soon, it's just an amplified version of it because of 600 people here and I'm clearly concerned about the security, right? When I got my house it had this beautiful landscape around it. Now I figured out why the landscape is there. It's to hide this stuff. So I would say, focus on the security. It's a very slippery slope. I am told that people found booze and condoms and stuff on this beautiful landscape just a few yards from my fence. I mean, this is something to be considered when you bring in random people, random parties that sign up with whom you haven't vetted. I can pretty much say that since they didn't know there were people singing in the back yard, I question whether it's even monitored. So would really worry about the safety of the place. That would be my bigger concern. I do understand it's not an easy life being a non - profit. I would highly say you should do what is consistent with your mission, so pick something that is consistent with your mission and that complements people around you. Provide a service, because you're an honorable society and I don't want to say anything bad as I actually like them, but I would like to see them offer a service that complements the people around them and make the amount of money which is required to run the place. Renting out is dangerous. So I would say the rule of thumb is that you can always argue the code, argue the finer points about what's been followed. The simple rule, as a leadership rule, I would say you should never ask a guy to do something you would not do, right? So I would urge you guys to ask yourself, would you permit it in your backyard live right up next to it, because it's happening. The codes are not written to be there forever, and EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2016 Page 24 of 52