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future. Secondly, we are in drought and even though I may not notice or none of us may notice individually what is happening, it does drain this limited resource that we're all using in Pleasanton and water is a top concern, so I don't feel its right to knowingly now allow the well. Then my third point is that I happened to be riding my bike on the Marilyn Kane Trail in Bernal Park the other day and noticed one of our City employees in a truck that was going and getting recyclable water to water all of the trees we just planted in Bernal Park and I was shocked. I said to myself, wow, the City is really being diligent about using recyclable water to maintain the trees we have so let's expect that of some of these new properties like this too. Beaudin: Can I just interject? I really want to make sure you all are making a decision with all of the information that you need. So Zone 7 issues well permits when well permits are requested. To my knowledge, I did have a request from a resident not associated with this application but in recent months, and I did learn a little bit about the well process. They will accept an application and they have their own criteria that they go through. There's no moratorium even during the drought interestingly enough. Someone could go to Zone 7 and apply for a well permit and go through their process which is completely separate from the City process, so I just want to make sure you all know that. I have a personal perspective on this, but from an information and decision - making perspective, I want you to know that these folks could leave here tonight, say we want a well permit for all three of these and if they were willing to pay for it, I know Zone 7 would at least consider it. So I want you to have that. Commissioner Balch: Unless we condition it in the PUD. Beaudin: That's correct. Chair Ritter: My thinking on the well is, you know, they've obviously paid money and installed it and I'm wondering why we're telling residents to cap their well if they get connected over to City water. I didn't know that. Do we do that? Beaudin: When we annex we try and convert things to our services. So we make an agreement with the county and we do a local service agreement and so the expectation would be that we're managing the resource in a different way and people don't need to have a septic system or be on a well. There are public health issues that go with both of those kinds of infrastructure and there's a lot more maintenance that goes into it and potable water versus non - potable water on a site comes with its own maintenance and obligations and risks. So, that's the reason. We want to make sure when we do that service agreement, those are the services people are getting and using. Chair Ritter: Okay, well my thinking on the well is their landscaping is well below what some of our current homes have and they've already got the well there and it's just been not used and I'm not really in favor of telling them to just cap it because they're using it just for landscaping and they're already going to be on City water for the rest of the development so I don't mind Condition 18 as written. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 10 of 38