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counted toward the progress in meeting RHNA goals." So in other words, it counts towards the achievement of the goal but it doesn't take away from the allocated inventory. Could you potentially go back and rezone back things within the inventory to take into account exceptions made to the baseline? Beaudin: You could, but we wouldn't. It's a challenging thing to undo. It would be seen as a bad faith move from HCD. Chair Ritter: So, maybe traffic's everybody's favorite topic. Mike, could you give us your insight on how this development will affect the rest of us driving around. Commissioner Nagler: And in your comments Mike, could you remember to include the planned impact of the 350 units down the street? Commissioner Brown: And I'll add one other thing. The applicant mentioned that they are studying these three intersections mentioned, but he didn't say that he expects it will improve circulation. So, we would like to understand that statement. Mike Tassano: Sure, so I don't have a presentation set up for you, but I can give you an overview of the trip generation because I heard that question. I also heard questions about the Sunol interchange, First Street, the three study intersections, I'll touch on the 350 units and if I miss anything you can ask if you want. So I'll start with the trip generation. 95 single family homes; the easiest thing to remember is one in each peak. So 95 single family homes generates 95 trips. I call it 100 just to make it easier. So 100 in the p.m. peak hour and it's actually .75 in the a.m. peak hour but we've looked at the p.m. and it's just easier to go 1 each. So anyway that's just the rule of thumb I use. 100 trips in the p.m. peak; we focused on that. There's a distribution that it's kind of in the middle of town and I know that from previous conversations with City Council and Planning Commission, there's this vision of everybody that owns a home in Pleasanton drives 1 -680 south. Which isn't actually true but it's kind of that overall feeling, right? So even if we assume 50 percent drive to the south, of that 100 p.m. trips, there's only 2/3 of them actually coming home, so there's about 70 coming home. Sorry, there's going to be a lot of math here. 70 trips are coming home. If half of them are coming from the Fremont area, that's 35. So you have 35 p.m. trips driving First Street/Sunol. To kind of put that number in perspective, 35 trips in the p.m. peak hour, my traffic signals, you get 30 green lights in one hour. So if they're coming up that road and it was an even distribution, you get roughly one new car for every cycle. And so when we look at what the impact is once we take these 100 trips and start to distribute them out from the center of town, it doesn't appear that any of the locations will really reach that next level of significance. What we do for the City is that we don't really even look at projects unless they generate 100 trips. We don't usually do a traffic study unless they reach that 100 trips because it distributes out so quickly. So this is kind of right on the border. It actually generated more when it was a commercial use or the 138 units that was studied. Those were multi - family so it's a little smaller generation, so it's kind of right on the border. But this project is also really close to First Street and so there's a lot of congestion, a lot of concerns. I want to make sure we study those intersections. They talk about studying three intersections. We actually require them to study 11. It didn't go through our process so because they happen to use Fehr and Peers which is a good firm, I said we would take a lot of their information but they would still be required to contract with us so PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 19 of 43