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Commissioner Brown: I did actually go out to the property and walked along the sidewalk anyway to get accustomed to the property and I noticed there's a proposed trail along the north side of the Arroyo, but I notice it's not going to connect on either side, so the thought was to build that portion of the trail and eventually do we have it in the plans to connect it? Hagen: There is a trail on the opposite side of Bernal Avenue going to Shadow Cliffs. As part of this project, with the Nevada Street extension, the Engineering and Traffic Departments would be looking at also extending the trail to those parts as well. But across First Street, there are spots where it's not connected within our overall master plan so as projects develop in the future we would get little bits of trail here and there. Commissioner Brown: Okay thank you. Those are all my questions. Chair Ritter: Great, I'm sure there will be more, but let's hear from the applicant. Mr. Serpa? Mike Serpa, Applicant: Chair Ritter, Planning Commission, thank you for listening to us tonight and having this workshop. I think workshops are a great idea. We understood that it was optional for us and we're not required to do it but we think as part of the process, it's the right thing to do. Beaudin: Can I just jump in here Mike? I just want to be clear with the workshop versus not workshop discussion; the Council has been clear and staff has been clear that if there is any kind of a legislative change associated with the application, we will meet with the Commission for a workshop and if it's a notable location or prominent location, we'll also do that. So it is not optional. It is a City policy now that projects come forward to this Commission when they involve legislative changes. I just want to be clear with everyone. Serpa: Thanks, for the most recent projects, I didn't know. Okay, well now we know and here we are. You probably know; we've worked with staff for 3 '/2 years designing this project. We've had a lot of great feedback from staff and leadership and we're grateful. I'm really excited. It's with humility and respect that we get the opportunity to do this. The land owners are here. I don't know that there's another land owner in Pleasanton that's been here longer than they have. They are leaders, stewards of the community. They are all here. My whole design team is here if we have questions with architecture or site planning, and the City Traffic Engineer is here, so I think we can get a lot done and I think we'll learn a lot. In my presentation, as I go through, feel free to stop on any one slide. Jennifer's presentation was fantastic. She covered a lot of ground, so you may see some duplicity in the slides I have so I'll speed through those and try and keep it brief, but hopefully we can all exchange good information and get good feedback here. So I'll go ahead and start. I'm sure most of you know where the location is on Stanley Boulevard. When I first learned of this project, it was the Irby property in the 2012 Housing Element Update. I had a project in that update. That's when I learned about these 3 properties. They scored very, very high for residential development —among the highest of all properties considered across the City. The study included citizen groups from across the City and it was based on City criteria in scoring the properties. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 4 of 43