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Another direction we had from staff was, we don't want to back up to Dublin Canyon Road but also we want those homes as far away from Dublin Canyon Road as possible very similar to Ms. Young's house, very similar to the Lesters, very similar to the all the other homes, they are not right on Dublin Canyon Road. And so yes, even though we wanted to cover the garage and that portion, I think that there would be light and activity on all the other lots, particularly the two middle lots (3 and 4). And yet it's very appropriate with the Craftsmen style, one -story home that's not going to be a "McMansion" in the middle of these other country type of homes. So there will be some light and activity and kind of the consensus is that just the fact that there's something there will have people caution a little bit as they are speeding down that road. Of course, if we put in those flashers and other things that may be effective, that could help as well. So keeping the country feel is important and when you look at other parts of the City, we kind of compare this mostly to south of Bernal on Foothill Road and you don't see sidewalks down there and actually in some of them, some of the small communities, they only have sidewalks in their streets. When you go into Oak Tree Farm, Dorothea, there's a couple of them down there but they don't even have sidewalks inside the street to keep that country feel. The second thing that I wanted to bring up and this is a very small thing, is in our internal street, staff wants to have concrete sidewalks and we don't want that. We'd rather have the DG, the decomposed granite. It helps us with our impervious for the soil and we think that would be a better look for a small community that's trying to strive to be country instead of having white gleaming sidewalks. So that was a small thing, but nonetheless, we think it's important. And if the Planning Commission would so direct, we would love to get rid of that sidewalk internally as well. That would be more area for landscaping. That would be better to turn for vehicles, emergency vehicles or for residents, so you don't have to have those sidewalks especially if you're in a 5 -lot development in a country area. Nagler: Another question —as you know, when the City approves zoning changes and a PUD and densities are higher than were previously allowed, a public amenity is required. As I understand it, you have not yet proposed a public amenity as part of this zoning change request. Do you have ideas about that or you don't think it's appropriate for the project? What are your thoughts? Houston: I think it's very appropriate and so I think that's part of this discussion. The one thing I think is a benefit to everybody is undergrounding these power lines. We don't have to do that but we think it's better for the residents of that small court which we're calling Walter Court, and we think that's better for all residents in the area and for the people of Pleasanton. It's not a small number to do that, especially for that land. But up and above that, it is only 5 lots and so we would look forward to working with either the City Manager or whoever that may be as to what an appropriate contribution might be, but trying to get credit for some of the amenities that we are putting out there, the pedestrian flashers as we proposed, and again, this is to be fair to staff, that's not something that they have heard of yet. It's just that the neighbors in the last week and a half have been excited about that because traffic is an issue. So, we're obviously open PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, January 13, 2016 Page 12 of 26