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307 units are being proposed now, the reason being that this is the right size for the <br />project, resulting in a lower trip count. <br />Mr. Trobbe continued that the second item, of which he is very proud, is the tremendous <br />amount of outreach done for this project. He indicated that they had done a very good <br />job of bringing people together to get their feedback and that over the last couple of <br />years, this property had a lot of eyes on it. He noted that they had met with homeowner <br />groups as well as individual neighbors and, as alluded to by Acting Chair Olson, held <br />neighborhood meetings in the evenings and on a Saturday afternoon in the Pleasanton <br />Senior Center. <br />Mr. Trobbe stated that the third item is the relationship between Safeway and <br />themselves. He indicated that Pleasanton Gateway, LLC, was the developer that got <br />the site's commercial development project approved and then sold that part to Safeway, <br />who in turn sold it to an investor within the last sixty days. He noted that, as the <br />Commission may already know, the store has been very successful, and in his meeting <br />with the store owners on this proposed project, part of his conditions of approval was a <br />best effort to work on putting together some stop signs and some crosswalks that <br />Mr. Tassano wanted them to do. He stated that he was happy to report that Safeway is <br />considering the proposal but cautioned that as Safeway is a big company, it may take a <br />while, but he is pretty certain that they are going to get to the goal line on that. <br />Pat Kernan, representing the firm Kingsley Bogard, Counsel to the Pleasanton Unified <br />School District (PUSD), stated that he has been working with City staff on all six major <br />projects that are going through the City process right now, representing PUSD on <br />mitigation, and that he is here to speak about the Development Agreement and the <br />mitigation condition of approval relative to the schools. <br />Mr. Kernan noted that Mr. Trobbe has been involved with Pleasanton for a long time, <br />having owned the property since the year 2000 and also involved with Hacienda, and <br />that this project is probably the only one of the six projects that is represented by <br />someone locally: Mr. Trobbe is from Campbell whereas many of the developers are <br />from Los Angeles or the East Coast and are not familiar with Pleasanton. He indicated <br />that Mr. Trobbe has been phenomenal to work with and by far the easiest developer to <br />work with. He noted that Mr. Trobbe and his team have been proactive and had started <br />a dialogue and arranged meetings with the PUSD Superintendent and the CDO weeks <br />well before the Planning Commission Work Session on this project. He added that <br />Mr. Trobbe immediately met all of the District's requests on the mitigation amounts. He <br />reiterated that it was a pleasure working with Mr. Trobbe and that he has been more <br />than a solid citizen. He added that it is important that the District thank the developers <br />as they pay substantial mitigation amounts, and without those amounts, the District <br />would not have the facilities it currently has for its students. <br />Mr. Kernan stated that he has been working closely with Mr. Dolan and Ms. Stern and <br />the Planning staff, as well as with Ms. Harryman and City Attorney Jonathan Lowell, for <br />the past year- and -a -half coordinating these projects. He indicated that when he was on <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 14, 2013 Page 4 of 17 <br />