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in inches really, but if it's important to the Commission, we can modify that standards table and conditions of approval accordingly. As far as the height of the buildings, the clarification of that, perhaps one of the Cindy Way residents who are here tonight might have a better recall of that than I do because they clearly have a big interest in that. I don't recall the houses being any higher, but what I do recall is working very closely with the neighbors. They actually changed the roof designs for the houses and we completely re- oriented a couple of the ridgelines to improve views towards the ridge —not saying we're going to be completely opening up those views or not blocking those views but we feel that in doing that design, we substantially widen the corridor of view opportunities for those neighbors. So that's the change in the design as I recall. I'd like to just point out a couple of quick benefits for the project. I already mentioned the elimination of the lift station and the extension of the water and the sewer to Valley Avenue which has been long desired by the City of Pleasanton; the screening of the Altieri property, the property owners have been there for some time and allowing the protection that they need from potential impacts from the golf balls continuing to land on their property which they currently do. So we see that as being a big benefit for that land owner. There are no CEQA impacts. In fact, we got a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers indicating there is a preliminary jurisdictional determination of low impact and the remaining environmental clearance is very minor with respect to Fish and Wildlife, so we're not impacting the Arroyo. The tree elimination issue will be minimal but we are doing everything we can to protect the Arroyo dripline. In fact, as we get deeper into some of those detailed drawings, I might have an opportunity to save some more trees and that's always our goal because we like trees and it's a good selling point for our buyers as well. FAR, we've already talked about that and that is the precise response I would have given that staff had presented to you. Last but not least is I think that by pre - plotting the houses as we indicated, it gives clear commitment to the abutting property owners on Cindy Way, who are the major stakeholders in this, so they know precisely what to expect when we construct. So with that, unless the Commission has questions, that concludes my presentation. Chair Ritter: Any questions for the applicant? Commissioner Allen: Just one question —on the screen trees Ms. Hardy, do you know what the growth plan is? You said 40 to 50 feet was the objective. So in 5 years, do you know the height of the trees versus 10 years roughly? Hardy: I don't know off -hand what the growth rate is and of course, as you know, it depends upon a lot of things. They are fast - growing trees. I just couldn't tell you what the growth of rate is, but even if we did, it could vary, again, depending on the site conditions. But we are again striving to get trees there. They'll be fast - growing that fit within the Arroyo and they're going to give not only our future home buyers but surrounding property owners some level of screening of that net. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 8 of 46