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would probably be something that we would want to utilize if we had a big event obviously, but we believe that this ratio of parking is kind of consistent with senior living and we followed it similar to a development in Sonoma called Sweetwater Central that was developed a couple of years ago and has 16 residents and approximately the same amount of parking. Commissioner Brown: Okay, thank you. Ritter: Okay, we'll open it up to speakers. I have four cards. If someone wants to say something, please bring them up. We'll start with Lauri Fehlberg. You'll have three minutes. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Lauri Fehlberg: I won't take even that. Lauri Fehlberg, Principal of Dahlin Architecture and Planning. We've been working with Susan and Sunflower Hill folks since this first started out in its inception. We are very excited to be in front of the Planning Commission tonight as part of this Irby project. We're so excited, and when I first met Susan, to be very honest, it was a little bit of a flat forehead moment as an architect who does not have a child with special needs. The question of what happens to these kids when their parents pass on, it was a total flat forehead moment to me. And so we've become very passionate about this effort. I'm here to answer any questions you have. We're looking forward to this moving through the process so that we can start to support the families here in Pleasanton and just look forward to working closely with the Planning Commission and City staff to move this process forward. Thank you. Corey Messenger: Hello. I'm Corey Messenger for those who probably don't know who I already am. In the days of my youth, probably when I was no older than two years of age, I was diagnosed with a mental disability called Autism which rendered my ability to speak, but slowly but surely I regained my ability to speak and I got through my education just fine without becoming something of a mute or vegetable or anything like that. Speaking of education, I also happened to be currently attending Las Positas College in which I usually tend to take the bus to and from said college. Also, once I'm all done with college, sometime by this year or quite possibly the next I intend to go to Fresno State College so that way I can further expand on my knowledge of independent living skills and also be able to become eligible to get a job in the near future. And also after that, I intend to go to Sunflower Hill community where I will benefit from the safe environment and all that and thankfully be welcomed with open arms by the said community as well as an empty apartment that I may live at for the rest of my days or for as long as I so see fit, and also to be able to visit my parents every now and again, along with my friends and family. And I believe that is about it. Thank you for your time good ladies and gents. Bruce Frank: Good evening, my name is Bruce Frank, a long -time Pleasanton resident, although I can't say 120 years... half that. I'm in favor of this development. I have a son, Austin, who is now 25 years old. After he went through all of his elementary school, middle school and high school in a special education program it has taken us over four years to find a group home for him. It is in Livermore and fortunately it is with a very loving couple who manage to take care of him and another individual. We would so much like to have our son back in Pleasanton in this community, and once again, I'm in PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 12 of 43