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Valley in my development. They never heard anything about this. No one at the Downtown Association meeting that I attended yesterday had heard anything about this. I mean they heard a long, long time ago there was something in the housing element, but they didn't even know who the developer was and these are people that are the senior leaders in the Downtown Association who had no idea this was going on. So, I mean, 100 homes —I don't know when the last time we rezoned 100 homes that were not part of the RHNA requirement. I mean, do you guys know? That's a good question. This is like a mini -East Pleasanton Specific Plan project that we're talking about and I mean it could be 20 percent of what the East Pleasanton Specific Plan is. So I think about this like I think about the Council decision that was made to pause on that project and go to the voters and get input about whether the community wants 100 or so homes. So then it just brings me to Sunflower Hill and saying, is there another way because I think the need is here —is there another way to use our low cost housing funds that we already have, get creative or find money somewhere else to meet the Council priority which I think is right on about helping this community even if we start off with a day center like Susan discussed where we have the pool and recreational room and people from the community could come there. So anyway, that's how I think about. I can't support it now, but I could in 2022. Commissioner O'Connor: One question for staff. You had mentioned there's also on -going discussion about maybe also a contribution to the... Seto: To the lower income housing fund, yes. Commissioner O'Connor: If that happened and if there was a contribution, could it be targeted to Sunflower Hill? Seto: And that's also part of the discussion, yes. Commissioner Nagler: I came into the discussion this evening with thoughts remarkably similar to Commissioner Allen. Let's focus on RHNA but just on the density of the project, the fact that we're building the number of units that we are a half a block away or whatever it is; that I felt like Sunflower Hill was being used candidly as a little bit of a Trojan horse to get the development. That's how I came into the discussion and what's been interesting to me about this evening have been a couple of things. One is that the traffic impacts are potentially not going to be as severe as I anticipated them to be. So I'm definitely concerned about the traffic impacts particularly at key intersections and again, how this interacts with the development going up down the street, but less concerned than I was before tonight's hearing. And while the community of interest of special needs kids have a particular point of view and they showed up to advocate obviously for this project, the construct that they described of having relatively affordable housing contiguous to and admittedly too small a development for their needs also struck me as being interesting. So having said that, I think this is way too dense, that there are way too many units being proposed for the piece of land; that the amount of open space being proposed is inappropriate to what is being requested; that if this project were built as proposed we are not representing the citizenry well in exchange for the rezoning, and that therefore, the project would need to come back in a pretty significant reconfiguration. So I guess what I'm saying is the impact on RHNA is less important to me. I am sensitive to the fact that the people of Pleasanton are nervous about growth but I'm not sure that I should be the one making the decision about that as opposed to the Council and although I completely agree with what you're saying in that regard, but as a question of what is it that would be approvable, it would need to be for me a community that has houses that have PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 37 of 43