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more considerate of the people and of the future generations. We will win this initiative. <br />It's for a good cause. People should decide this issue. Thank you for allowing me to <br />speak. <br />Bill Wheeler: Good evening Planning Commission members and staff. I'm Bill Wheeler, <br />owner of Black Tie Transportation, still on the corner of Commerce and Johnson Drive <br />in lovely Pleasanton. Great meeting last night —I want to commend all of you for taking <br />the time to be there, present the information and listening to the comments. I especially <br />want to thank Gerry for his great performance. The presentation gave a lot of good <br />information, although some of the data plans we had not heard before and the <br />questions were good, but I hope some weren't intended to confuse the public more than <br />clarify things. For example, I was particularly concerned about the idea of the City <br />sponsoring a ballot for the initiative in November which could cloud up an already <br />complex situation. I would hope that you wouldn't insult the Pleasanton voters by trying <br />to do that. <br />Let me also clarify something that came up in the questions. Our big box initiative would <br />open the way for one or several retail stores of less than 50,000 square feet which could <br />attract businesses that would complement the planned hotels. By building an attractive, <br />lively venue with interesting stores, restaurants and possibly a movie theater, you could <br />create a place where guests in the 3 hotels as well as residents from around the region <br />would want to spend time and money and enjoy a true Pleasanton experience. We have <br />a great opportunity here to create something here new and unique and at the same time <br />bring revenue, jobs and new regional focus to the City of Pleasanton. I look forward to <br />working with you over the next few months to create a plan that everyone can endorse <br />and anticipate great results. Thank you very much for your time. <br />Chair Ritter: As most people know, this is a time where you can talk about things that <br />are not on the agenda. We, the Planning Commission cannot talk about them or <br />address them until they become an agendized item, so I just wanted to let everybody <br />know. Gerry, would you mind giving a brief summary of last night's Johnson Drive EDZ <br />meeting and what is next for those that were not here last night. <br />Gerry Beaudin: We presented an update last night at the Joint Planning Commission <br />and City Council workshop. There was no formal action requested or taken last night. <br />Staff received direction to continue moving forward with our analysis of the Johnson <br />Drive Economic Development Zone. We heard some questions last night that we will <br />have to do some additional analysis to respond to. We're going to do that work and then <br />we're going to move into the hearing phases when we have that analysis complete. So <br />that is the status quo. What that leaves open is the possibility for a vote of the people for <br />an action that's taken by the City as well. <br />4. REVISIONS TO THE AGENDA <br />Adam Weinstein advised that the applicant of PUD -112 has requested the item be <br />pulled from the Consent Calendar. <br />5. CONSENT CALENDAR <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 13, 2016 Page 3 of 33 <br />