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Susan Houghton: Hi, I'm Susan Houghton, President of the Board for Sunflower Hill. We are a Pleasanton based non - profit. We've been in existence for about four years. We have a number of our families and supporters here —you can all raise your hand; many of whom are very anxious to have the ability to have affordable housing. To your question, Commissioner Allen, we do have another site in Livermore that is going through this same process now. It is about 2.2 acres, has about 45 units, it's a first and sale agreement on First Street that we're working with the City of Livermore on. We actually started working with Mike and Concentric Development on this first but we took the advantage to take two opportunities for land. There are more than 900 families in Livermore who need special needs housing, 700 in Pleasanton and as you know, unfortunately special needs is growing. 1 in 68 people are now being diagnosed with Autism. Of course, Sunflower Hill would not just house individuals with Autism. It would house people with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and any type of developmental delay. The reason that we have identified only 17 units so far is really due to the size of the property. Our board feels very strongly about keeping an occupancy or a density ratio of 22 to the acre, and we know, given the need in Pleasanton, there will be significant interest of families to purchase some of the homes in the property, purchase adjacent to the campus. They would want to use the campus, the facilities on site that you saw on the amenity, as part of their day program or night program. Because for us, it is really an affinity community. It's being together. It's being able to have socialization and our friends; and our families and a lifelong residency. So we know, even though people will not be living on site, they will walk to the site and they could easily get up to 50 or 100 people using the auditorium or using some of the amenities. So that was the reference to the campus. We fully intend to meet whatever is the requirement of the housing. We committed that to City staff and we are working with them on an appropriate housing agreement that would meet the needs of what the City, the Commission and of course, what the Council desires. So hopefully that answers your questions and I'm happy to answer anything else about Sunflower Hill. Commissioner Allen: That answered my question. Commissioner O'Connor: Susan, you said that your target is around 20 units per acre, but with 1.4 acres, why wouldn't you be higher than 17 units? Houghton: Because that is what we have been told is the early estimate of what the affordable housing requirement would be. So we know with his density of 95, it would be approximately 17 that he would need to have to be affordable. So we originally put this as a place marker until we understand exactly how many houses are approved, exactly how many the final development will be and then we'll adjust it. You see the two buildings that are there in the green —the upper ones —those are the building concepts we would have. It would be similar to a college dorm in a way in which you might have some individual, single efficiency apartments with kitchens, but then you might have an area or floor that has a common living area and master bathrooms on site depending upon whether you wanted to cook or not cook. The big building you see down at the bottom is the community center and we personally believe that given the interest to the families, we want to put more of our effort into a community center that is large enough PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 9 of 43