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Otto: All of the parking behind Peet's. Ott: Not the Bank of America lot, but the lot directly behind the Peet's building. Weinstein: Correct, those are available to the public. Commissioner Balch: So the St. Mary's lot is not in the zoned area, right? Beaudin: It's just outside of the downtown core but it is in the area of influence that we identified. You'll also notice that the SFPUC site and Ace Train are outside of our study area. Full disclosure, we're working separately with San Mateo County and the Fairgrounds as well as Ace to address the overflow parking issues that come in robust economic times, when there are a lot of people commuting. We're working with PD and the neighbors to deter people from parking there. To answer your question, the St. Mary lot is outside, but it's an easy 5 minute walk to Main Street. Commissioner Balch: The Bank of the America lot, that is private property as well as some of these other potential - - -I know I'm getting ahead .... so these big "reds" we'll just call them on both sides, I think there's like four we see here, those are all private property as I recall, right? Bonn: That's right. Commissioner Balch: Okay, thank you very much. Beaudin: I'll talk about those in a little more detail. So, for just for a little bit of context around the analysis we did, 85 percent of the trips to our downtown come from folks within the tri- valley. Weekday trips from Hacienda are about 16 percent of all trips that we see downtown, and that decreases on the weekends for obvious reasons, with fewer employees in Hacienda. And what we see on the weekend are the trips from Dublin and San Ramon, those areas go up to about 22 percent of all the trips to our downtown, so folks in those communities are coming to our quaint downtown. The main way people get into our downtown is Bernal Avenue, 27 percent of trips, so that's important for us to be able to efficiently put up signs and get people parked and out walking and shopping and eating as efficiently as possible. Commissioner Brown: The trips coming from Hacienda to Downtown, is that during the lunch hour period? Beaudin: Yes, that's what we're assuming. It's aggregated data but we're expecting this to be the lunch crowd. Commissioner Brown: Okay, and then obviously the challenge with Bernal to your other comment, especially on weekends, events are happening at the Fairgrounds then it backs up on the highway. Is there any other route that you'd want to encourage or opt for people coming from San Ramon /Dublin to use other than Bernal? Beaudin: Del Valle and Santa Rita also have close to 20 percent kind of coming through those ways and on those event weekends, our downtown is essentially overwhelmed. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 23 of 39