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area underway where there has been talk about senior housing and housing for autistic children and adults, as well as serving other needs of multi- density housing. She indicated that those are the places the City needs to really leverage first before approving additional sites. In summary, Commissioner Allen stated that she had four points: (1) The City has excess capacity here today that is already on this list; (2) The East Pleasanton Specific Plan will provide another 1,700 units; (3) There is no urgent business need within the City that would be driving a rezoning; and (4) The City needs to maintain flexibility, which means to not change zoning now but to do so when the City finds there is a need or there is another business driver that would cause the City to do so. That said, Commissioner Allen stated that there is one site specifically that she would like additional information on, because there may be a business need she does not know about, and that is the Irby - Kaplan -Zia site. She indicated that it sounds like there could be some benefits to the City in terms of sewer, water, and roadway, and while she is making the assumption that it is not an urgent business need, she thinks it is worthy of looking into and having it come back to the Commission to determine how urgent that really is and what that would mean to the City. Commissioner Allen added that the other piece of information she would like to have that she thinks staff is already preparing is around demographics. She asked where the need will be in the next ten years, whether it would be workforce housing or senior housing or something else. She noted that the City clearly has a gap today with workforce housing, but there is also a lot of surplus in housing that will come on board that will serve that need. She added that she believes senior housing is really critical and would like to see the demographics there. Commissioner Pearce stated that she agrees a great deal with what has already been said. She noted that she was on the Housing Element Task Force, and she considers the work of that Task Force to be well done, exhaustive, extensive, and with a lot of community outreach. She indicated that she is gratified to see that the City still has excess numbers from all that work that can be used in the next RHNA cycle, and given that, her inclination is not to rezone any additional properties at this time. She continued that she agrees with Commissioner Allen that the one site that would be a great site for housing is the Irby - Kaplan -Zia site. She added that she is inclined to have a conversation about that, but she is aware that staff has said additional information is needed. She noted, however, that when she saw some of these sites when she got the Planning Commission meeting packet, she did not know they were even remotely possible in terms of housing and certainly thinks that there has not been enough outreach. She stated that she has the schedule and knows there will be extensive outreach, but given all the outreach done with the Housing Element Task Force, a lot more discussion is needed if some of these sites are to be considered. With respect to the CM Capital site, she indicated that she has been around awhile and has never seen a situation where the City has rezoned a site against the owner's preference. She stated that she has heard what the neighbors are saying and understand the concerns, PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 23, 2014 Page 23 of 27