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Ms. Goldware said yes. She stated that they provide certain services on -site, but not meals; however, they might connect residents to a meal program at the Senior Center. She added that some of their properties have representatives from the Second Harvest Food Bank who come in and do a brown bag program in their community rooms. Commissioner Ritter inquired where the community center is located. Ms. Goldware pointed to the shared common area space on the site plan, which included the offices for MidPen Housing's onsite property manager and a resident services program; a larger gathering room where they could have a Thanksgiving pot luck or a social event or a meeting, or people could rent out the space or reserve the space; some smaller spaces where they could have smaller group meetings or health screenings. Jay Maille stated that he participated a little bit in the Task Force meetings and thanked MidPen Housing for the attempt to outreach to all of them in the neighborhood. He indicated that something occurred to him tonight that he should have thought about earlier, that anything that can be done to conserve, better manage water, even in the construction of the buildings or on the property landscaping, is probably going to be a good idea, particularly since drought is probably going to be more common. He added that he knows there are going to be 100 trees planted. He noted that this could be a minor thing, but the kind of tree matters, especially for elderly folks. He proposed that the trees not be the liquid ambers that drop those hard seed balls on the sidewalk or anything that drops fruit like that, as elderly people will be struggling with that. Wayne Couto stated that he is a neighbor, and he is a Task Force member for about four years now, mostly because the residents in the cottages are his neighbors; he has conversations with them, and they share vegetables over the back fence and the creek. He indicated that, first of all, he wants to make sure that their living situation is safe and comfortable and better than what they currently have now, and, secondly, he also wants his view and his backyard to be as good as it possibly can be. He noted that he knows it is going to change, and he is comfortable with that, but anything they can do now to help that process would be beneficial to everyone involved. Mr. Couto expressed concern about the parking issue. He stated that he works out of his house and he gets to see the comings and goings of both pedestrians and vehicles on Kottinger Drive all day long, and on a typical day, this road is heavily used by both strollers, joggers, bicyclists, pedestrians, and vehicular traffic. He noted that on a typical day, parking is not an issue; but when there are meetings or voting there, or when there are community events Downtown, parking becomes constant, and cars are parked all the way up Kottinger Drive. He stated that with a new development, the folks that get to move in here at 62 years would probably have cars, so there will probably be more cars than currently is represented by the statistics offered of 40 cars out of 66 respondents. He urged them to look at this with a close eye to see if there is any way of increasing more parking. He added that pedestrian calming is also critical because there are cars that race up the street at about 50 miles per hour, and if the pedestrian crossing is not somehow designed with different treatments on the pavement or bulb -outs or something to slow and PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 12, 2014 Page 13 of 24