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their property, staff has added a requirement to have some landscape screening and pedestrian impediments along that property line. In conclusion, Ms. Stern stated that in addition to the changes she described, staff has also incorporated additional changes which are contained in the staff memo dated July 11, 2012, which was earlier forwarded to the Commission. She indicated that should the Planning Commission accept the amendments to the draft and recommend approval of the development standards and design guidelines to the City Council, the standards and guidelines would be forwarded to the City Council for adoption in August to meet the September deadline and make them effective according to the City's Housing Element. She noted that staff would then come back to the Commission with revised development standards and design guidelines for the BART site. She added that as the development plans come through, they will most probably be brought before the Commission as a workshop, following staff review, to look at any major issues within the site and any particular exceptions that the developer would desire to discuss with the Commission before it comes back as a formal applications to the Planning Commission and to the City Council. Vice Chair Blank informed the public that this subject has been in front of the Planning Commission several times, and if the Commission does not go into a great deal of detail, it is because the Commission has approved this at least twice before. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Marty Inderbitzen stated that he represented the owners of the property formerly known as CarrAmerica and now known as California Center and owned by Rreef, whose design team has been working with staff and the City for quite some time now on a project for that location that would be consistent with the high- density rezoning that occurred earlier this year. He acknowledged the tremendous work and outstanding job done by Mr. Dolan and Ms. Stern in bringing forward the entire Housing Element, definitely a Herculean effort which got through in record time. He indicated that he has worked with staff all over the Bay Area, as well with several evolution of staff within the City of Pleasanton, and noted that it was really a pleasure to work with Mr. Dolan and Ms. Stern, who rank right up there near the top, if not at the top. He added that both Mr. Dolan and Ms. Stern have been really receptive to the design team's input and suggestions about things such as these guidelines and how the team might be able to work with the property. Mr. Inderbitzen stated that they are not 100 percent in sync with the proposed development standards and design guidelines but that they were most of the way there. He indicated that the first thing he does when he reads design standards and guidelines package like this one is to take a look at what the preamble says, what the introduction and the Vision Statement tell me about the document, how that follows through to the actual implementation of those guidelines and standards, and how they can be put to work on the property. He noted that while the Vision Statement recognizes that these are general guidelines, there really is no direct acknowledgement that the nine sites are PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 11, 2012 Page 7 of 16