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Nagler: I don't mean to try to make a point out of too big a generalization, but it's interesting to me that the City is embroiled in such a discussion over Lund Ranch II and that number of units, although I'll admit part of it is the location, and we have it coming before us that we now know about proposals for 175 new homes in this community. So it's interesting to me that there doesn't seem to be a balance or rhyme or reason about what we consider to be controversial or what we don't. Allen: Speaking of the Irby project, if it does come forward, could I just ask that we think about potentially expanding our notification on that project? Given the sensitivity our community has about building and given the number of homes being proposed and feedback we've been getting from surveys about the public not hearing about things, I think it's important to do much more outreach than usual, including expanding the postcard reach so we deal with it upfront. Beaudin: We'll push information out electronically to as many places as we can but we really want to be consistent with state law and with our policies around notice so we are not picking and choosing the projects that we think are more or less important in town. So I'm completely sensitive to the issue you're talking about but I really want to be mindful about being consistent in that regard especially with respect to state law. When we meet our state requirements, Pleasanton does a little more already so I think the minimum is 300 feet and we do 500 feet and we'll continue to do that. I understand the Planning Commission's request. If we start to get requests, we'll have to look at our policy and see if we want to do it across the board. I think that's the safest way for us to approach notice, but we're always going to have people come to the podium who say they didn't get notice. We keep track of every single notice we send out. We have radius maps and we can tell you exactly who got what when for all of these projects. Allen: I'm just thinking if there's anything extra like through the PDA, because it's near the downtown, the historic group and asking them to get it out to their networks, maybe that's something extra we can do. Beaudin: We certainly will, but we're also pushing notifications out through various electronic sources so our PIO is doing a great job with Next Door, Facebook, Twitter, and we're using some newer methods of communication as well. I think that the real consolidation of this is going to be the Communications Plan that's being drafted now. We should have that later this year and it is going to talk specifically about how and why we do the notifications we do and I think with Community Development, because of the topics we deal with, they're going to be pretty plugged into that and so we'll have our state requirements, the City of Pleasanton standard and then we'll have various other means and methods that we're going to be engaged with and executing on. We're really trying to be mindful and get the word out for development projects in Pleasanton. We know it's a hot topic. O'Connor: some of those notifications go up to 1,000 feet. Is there a special category? Beaudin: It depends on the application. If it's a legislative change it's different than something that's consistent with zoning in general plan. If it has citywide impacts you go to a newspaper notice instead of a card notification, but we often do both, so it really depends on the kind of application we're looking at. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 9, 2016 Page 23 of 25