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So you're seeing the purple as Office. Well, the Old Bernal piece is truly zoned 0 (Office). The whole Peters Street, which you guys did the project for Brian Bowers and the 377 —that is zoned C -C but overlaid to 0. So it doesn't have 0 zoning which the piece that we're working on tonight does. So those sites are zoned C -C but they have an overlay to 0, which the intention was to soften the blow for the neighborhood maybe, but then I question when they do the Specific Plan again, why the whole First Street that faces Express Liquors and Specialty Sales and all of that —that faces a residential district and that goes straight to C -C. So why do we only want to buffer the west neighbors a little bit and overlay to 0 but leave the east neighbors out of this. To point out, all the other purples; Ray Street and everything you're seeing as purple, the true zoning is still C -C. They either PUD'd it to 0 or they built 0, but their right by law is C -C zoning which is what we'd like this site to have. I have some paperwork for you guys. It's just something from the Pleasanton Downtown Association and I'll hand out a couple of things real quick and then I'll let Tim jump in. The PDA recommended what direction they'd like to see on the site. Then I talked to the neighbor next door too which is the big white building. So the PDA kind of went through the project and their recommendation which I highlighted at the bottom was to allow uses beyond the Office designation on the first floor. We'd like to see modified C -C zoning which is the same thing you did on the St. Mary project for us which is kind of like a light duty C -C. We've talked to staff about, is it a full C -C and we can do everything you could have on Main? Is it a watered -down version that gives you coffee shop, restaurant, whatever? Maybe it's open until 9:00 p.m. and not midnight. We really think the site should be zoned C -C which shares the same core overlay and zoning as my neighbor and parking requirements and all of that. But regardless, we're kind of working on a similar site zoning to the other project you guys just did. Behind the PDA letter is information from the office building across the street. I've talked to the owner a couple of times. I've talked to the commercial brokers who represent him. It's been for sale for 4'/2 years and the upstairs has been three - quarters vacant for 3 -4 years. He called me when he got the mailing and he said, "Hey! I got your card. I'm excited." He said, "I'd like to do something with mine, redo it, something," and so we started talking. He said, "I own tons of office buildings," and so he wrote and faxed it in today his statement, and signed it. Where I'm going with our process is that it's been zoned 30 years for Office. There's only one office over there, okay? The guy that has the office is not doing that great. I think he's an island on his own. The owners that own the piece next door, this 10 -unit apartment complex we can see on the corner and the one lot over are also in my letters. They went to Gerry and Nelson and everybody and wanted to do a project on their site and they said, well it's currently zoned 0. We have a 10 -plex next door. How are they zoned 0? So their vacant lot is currently zoned 0 so they're trying to figure out, looking at me, looking at the civic center, so I'm not sure what you're going to zone the civic center —I'm sorry, our site here and not the new civic center. If this does move across the field, what is the City going to zone this? I don't believe they're going to stamp the "0" on it. It will be C -C and a mixed use variety. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 25, 2016 Page 10 of 28