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b. PUD -96, Pleasanton Gateway, LLC, Commons at Gateway Residential Work Session to review and receive comments on an application for a Planned Unit Development (PUD) Development Plan to construct 210 apartment units, 97 single - family detached units, and related site improvements on an approximately 26.72 -acre site located at 1600 Valley Avenue (south of the Pleasanton Gateway Shopping Center). Zoning for the property is PUD -HDR and MDR (Planned Unit Development -High Density Residential and Medium Density Residential) District. Marion Pavan presented the staff report and described the scope, layout, and key elements of the application. Chair Blank referred to page AO -8 of Exhibit B, View -2: along Interstate 680, and indicated that one of the things he likes to do is look at projects that the Commission has approved and see what they look like after they have been approved. He noted that when the Commission approved Safeway, there was a lot of discussion about the Commission not wanting it to look like an off -ramp in Van Nuys. He further noted that the trees right now have not grown in, and getting down off of 1 -680, it looks like an off -ramp in Van Nuys and does not even come close to the Pleasanton look. He added that the Commission wanted it to really look like nice as a gateway and not like a place that was inviting people to get off and get on, even though Safeway does since it wants to entice people to use the gas and all the other stuff in that complex. Chair Blank stated that he was trying to understand why the view from the freeway, as demonstrated in this exhibit, looks the same as before, like the whole complex is going to be exposed to the freeway, and wanted to know if that is that because of the angle it is drawn at and the trees have been eliminated. Mr. Pavan replied that he thinks it is because the trees were not shown so the Commission and the public could have as clear and unobstructed view of these buildings as possible. He noted that the applicant, Scott Trobbe, is present tonight and respond to the question. Chair Blank stated that one of the things that might be helpful for when this application comes back is to have a visual of what it really looks like going down 1 -680 looking laterally as opposed to angularly. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Scott Trobbe, Applicant, stated that it was great to be back before the Commission. He indicated that he loves this process and is looking forward to getting some input from the Commission. Chair Blank asked Mr. Trobbe to excuse him for interrupting but he wanted it to be included in the record that there is somebody who loves this process. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 22, 2013 Page 33 of 41