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summertime. The parking is really, really terrific around there until the bar closes. Then it lightens up, but it's hard to even put out your trash on St. Mary's Street on those Thursday nights. But, I like the music! The other thing is the Wednesday nights in the summertime; the parking's a little stiffer. But other than special event things, there is some parking on St. John Street. I do a regular dog walk so I keep up. So that was my concern; that the buildings not be too high and because I recognize it's a commercial property and they can put whatever the Planning Commission allows them. I was just going to say what I sort of would like. Thanks very much for listening to me. Chair Ritter: Ok, we have the last speaker card, Linda Behers? Linda Behers: I've lived on St. John Street, across the street, for 19 years, coming up on 20 years and I've lived in Pleasanton since 1989 so I understand Pleasanton. The first I heard about the project was when I got the proposed card, so I read the report last Friday when it was posted and I emailed Natalie and followed up with a phone call to make sure she received it. I know in the report tonight you had asked developers to talk with the neighborhood and no one has approached us as far as I'm aware. I'm the president of the St. John Court Board. I am representing my own interests but I've heard my neighbors talk and I know a few of them mentioned that they sent in their emails. So you're already starting to address some of our concerns about the parking. We have responsibility for enforcing our own parking issues. We do have guest parking spots. Even with our guest parking, our two per unit resident parking —we have residents parking on St. John Street on a regular basis, so we know there's people already out there from our 28 homes. My concern is the 12 additional units and what kind of parking would come along with it, because you can't assume just two cars per home. Some people have 3 -4 cars, with kids home, kids home from college, and we have a lot of difficulty even tagging cars in our own complex that are using resident and guest parking for 2 -3 days —those types of things. So that was when I put out a solution there. I wondered if there could be less units or what could be done to increase some of the space for the parking. This wonderful lady mentioned the Barone's night. I do enjoy the music and I'm very grateful that I don't need to park on the street, but I do see people coming down the end of the street doing U- turns, looking around so that traffic gets backed up. Sometimes I just want to get home and get to dinner and I see the traffic backed up all the way down here to Bernal as people look for parking. So if there's hope on that parking, that would be awesome with those spaces there. I also am concerned about the future homeowners and what their expectations are for parking on the street. I don't want to see those future homeowners coming into our guest and resident parking because I have to chase people out of my dedicated outdoor spot, even though it says "reserved" they are going to take it over. So I have to tag or tow them and I don't want to have to tow anybody out of that parking spot. Lastly, I would just say as you're coming north on Peters and you make that left turn onto St. John, there's a lot of traffic that comes down from the north and they have the right -of -way. They almost always kind of start to cut you off. They cross that double PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 32 of 46