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Mr. Blake stated that this will be a landmark project for Pleasanton and will bring a kind of new mix of tenants and uses and an environment to Pleasanton that does not exist at this time. He added that this will be a very high quality project that will add a gateway to Pleasanton that the City can be proud of. He then introduced Galen Grant, who will present some highlights of how they came up with this design and some of the design philosophy and thinking behind it. Galen Grant, Partner at FCGA Architects, stated that their company does a lot of retail projects and that they have the good fortune of doing literally all of the retail projects surrounding this site, such as the Paragon Outlet Mall, the Shoppes at Livermore right across Jack London, and the Fallon Gateway Shopping Center for Charter Properties. He stated that one of the difficulties sometimes in developing retail projects is how to bring the architecture out to the street, how to conceal parking in the middle without creating this huge parking field, and how to create good architecture on both sides. He indicated that he is really pleased with this project and this development plan. Mr. Grant then presented a PowerPoint show, displaying the project's site plan, the view corridor, the network of pedestrian walkways around the site, and the parking in- between the two buildings which make the ground level retail served by this parking area really something that realistically would work. He then pointed to the large bio- filter treatment area and to the location of the EVA as recommended by Vulcan Materials Company and clarified that there will be no trash going in and out of this location. He indicated that they have two ingress and two egress lanes with a possible addition of another exit lane. He noted that parking is well distributed and laid out in the most efficient way off of the driveway. Mr. Grant then presented the architecture of the buildings, designed to be very animated and very street - friendly, with a wealth of glass on all the elevations and doors off of the parking lot side. He pointed to the pedestrian - friendly landscape area with a meandering pathway that will carry all the way around and swing back to the center. He showed Office Buildings A and B with ground -level retail and second -level office, animated elevations with vertical and horizontal articulation on all four sides, open exterior corridors and stairs, a lot of brick work and stone from the window line down and turning the corner, awning covers and sign elements that will call out the ground -floor areas as retail. He then displayed Building C, a one -story retail building that fronts on the courtyards; Building D, facing the parking lot and El Charro Road, is all glass with a trellis feature and an entire brick wall; and the last building on the south, the drum feature with brick on the lower element, a tall volume, large glass face, split -faced masonry that creates the basic box and wraps around the building and integrates with panels of brick and cement plaster. Mr. Grant concluded that this will be a great project from the standpoint of materials, colors, and landscaping, all integrated together to the point where the City and the developer will be very proud of it. Commissioner Piper inquired what the purpose of the exterior staircases is and if they are a matter of cost, functionality, or architecture. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, October 22, 2014 Page 16 of 30