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Jonathan Lowell, who have been instrumental in making things happen; the Planning Commissioners, without whose Conditions of Approval, PUSD would not be here; and finally, City staff, Mr. Dolan and Ms. Stern, who have been great to work with on all these projects. Mr. Kernan stated that this is a little bit of a closure for him because the process has been remarkable and they have been able to have the developers, the City, and the School District really work together. He then thanked Ms. Soo, who is not just a staff planner but has been his remarkable go -to person at the City on every one of these projects, and who has called him and gotten right back to him with information he needed. James Paxson, Hacienda Business Park, expressed his support for the project, which was before Hacienda's own design review committee. He also commended the team for all of the excellent work they did. He indicated that again, with many of their sites, there is this confluence of objectives that has to occur; not only is it the design standards but it is meeting the concerns and creating the proper context. He stated that with Summerhill, as with the previous four projects in Hacienda that the Commission has recently seen, Hacienda has another project of which everyone can be very proud and which they are very anxious to see move forward. Mr. Paxson stated that he also wanted to address the condition and let the Commission know that absolutely, this project is eligible to take advantage not only of Hacienda's Eco -pass program which will be available to every resident within the project, but that Eco -pass allows complete use of the Wheels system for any of their particular travel needs. He added that most notably, it is a very convenient access point to BART and to the Ace Train, the special Express bus that goes up to Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek so anybody living in Pleasanton who also has employment up the 1 -680 corridor has a free travel back and forth to those locations in addition to all of the travel that they can enjoy around town as well. He indicated that there are a number of other programs that he would be glad to answer any questions about. He added that they take pride in their nationally recognized commute program that is available not only to the employees in the Park but also to its residents, and every resident in this project will get to take advantage of those as well as other programs. Anthony Ghio stated that something he would like addressed at some point is how many Planning Commissioners have actually gone out to the Parkside neighborhood to view the existing development that is there and what is going to be built to get some perspective of the pictures that are shown. He indicated that he has been to several of these meetings, and he does not feel like some of the depictions put up are accurate as to detail. He stated that he lives about two doors away from the Arroyo, and from his house, he can look out his front yard and can tell what kind of cars are parked in the parking lots across the way where the development is going to take place. He noted that the photos that present the development from the Parkside neighborhood is nowhere near that kind of detail that can be seen from Parkside. He added that he thinks the Planning Commission really needs to go out there and look at that before it makes decisions on things like a six -foot versus an eight -foot fence, and one of the things that goes with the extra fence height is the blocking PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, February 26, 2014 Page 9 of 21