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Beaudin: We're targeting April 12th for the Johnson Drive EDZ, but we're working through a lot of really technical things right now, including what Mr. Wheeler mentioned at the podium this evening. We haven't done our formal marketing for April 12th. That's the date we've tentatively scheduled and it is a work in progress. There's a lot of moving parts right now and we want to make sure we get a complete package to the Commission and Council when we do that meeting so there aren't big unanswered questions. Balch: And if I may, just because we're always careful, I must recuse myself for that item so we just need to be careful as we progress towards that day. O'Connor: So you're recusing for that item and that may be the only day I can't be here, April 12th. But we could have another Commissioner by then? Ritter: It is a workshop though. b. Actions of the City Council No discussion was held or action taken. c. Actions of the Zoning Administrator No discussion was held or action taken. d. Matters for Commission's Information Balch asked if anyone had a report from the recent League of California Cities Planning Commissioners Academy conference. Beaudin: The League of California Cities Planning Commissioners training session was 3 days. Commissioner Allen attended some of the sessions. I attended the sessions. It was Planning Commissioner training. There were a lot of new Planning Commissioners in the room, some experienced commissioners as well, planning staff from all over the state of California. It was in San Ramon and it was a really nice primer everything from required findings of approval through to a long -term planning vision and how climate change relates to the work we all do here on a regular basis done by Peter Calthorpe who is one of the original transit - oriented development planners and really respected in the field of planning. He's turned his attention to climate change kind of acknowledging the fact that if we don't have an Earth to plan on, it doesn't matter how things look if I had to sum it up in a nutshell. So he really wants to focus on changes at the local level, but he also talked a lot about state and regional changes and how focusing on more intense land use around transit and shifting people's behavior is an important consideration in the work that we do every day. So, harder for some places to get their minds around, but in the big picture, that was the focus of his keynote talk. There were other sessions related to improving your development review process which were interesting and gave me some things to think about here in Pleasanton. So overall, very informative and glad I was able to go. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 9, 2016 Page 20 of 25