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So in terms of if an autonomous car is continuously picking up and dropping off, it may not need to park anywhere if that's its role. If it is in fact parking somewhere, the dimensions of the parking stall may need to be adjusted, possibly reduced because obviously it's dropped off the passengers and once it's parked it needs to actually fit into the parking space a door to get interacted. So those are all things that need to get considered when you design a parking structure with autonomous cars. Commissioner Brown: Okay, and I actually was at a Tesla website yesterday and their current plans are end of next year so it's not that far off. I'm glad that you're taking the future into account. Thank you. Those are all the questions I had on the presentation. Commissioner Ritter: And you said if I had new information I should share this? Chair Balch: Yes, we'll do it after questions but before public comments. Commissioner O'Connor: I would like staff to comment on something that was in the staff report. It looks like if we're looking at the total square footage of what we have in the downtown commercial area and the number of parking spaces it has, we're parking now at about 250 square feet per parking spot, and our typical ratio in Pleasanton is around 300 square feet of space per parking spot. So, do we have a shortage or is it a perceived shortage? Or, is it because we're out of sync where the demand for parking is and where the parking is located? Bonn: It's probably a combination of all of those things. You're right. The standard retail ratio is 1:300 so you would think that 1:250 we'd be over parked. A lot of that parking is on private property or is private parking and therefore, it's not necessarily available to the general public. Commissioner O'Connor: What do you mean? The private parking lot is over-parked for that? Whoever owns the parking lot itself, it's over-parked then? If we're out of sync because of that, right? Weinstein: I think what Shweta is saying is that if you take into account all of the public and all of the private parking and look at how it's applied in comparison as to how much development we have, that there's adequate parking. But what Shweta was saying was that because a lot of those spaces are private, somebody coming Downtown to go to a certain business might not be able to use that private parking supply such that there's not enough public parking and there could be an actual realistic shortage even though overall. If you count all the spaces in Downtown, there's enough for everybody based on the square footage of uses. Chair Balch: Okay, any other questions? I just had a quick question which is maybe a little bit of one of the public comments which is about the one-way loop or let's just call it an alternative scenario. Were those looked at by the consultant or basically no major infrastructure improvements that would cause it to be a one-way looping system or like no vehicular traffic on Main Street? Those weren't considered in the scope at this time, right? EXCPERT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 8, 2017 Page 2 of 10