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Commissioner Brown: No, I'm not. I do apologize to the audience because I do understand the public input. You guys are very supportive and worked hard for the last couple of years with Ponderosa, but from a city perspective, I've got a few concerns. One is zoning 60 acres of public institutional land. Nine of that 60 acres that's left, there's no plan for. There was a slide up of the schools there. It showed that the enrollment at Donlon Elementary School was 950 with a current capacity of 600. Staff made comments about you could do some redistricting and reallocation and some of that gap might be closed, but at this point, I know the project is small. You're talking about 15 elementary school students, but every lit bit makes that situation worse and so there's no plan for the impacted schools. The General Plan trumps the existing zoning and we need to consider any amendments to the General Plan carefully and I did go out and look at the property. I do recognize the fact that it's 9 acres and the church is using a small portion of that today and I did notice that it needs improvement in terms of the parking lot and surrounding landscaping. I do recognize the need for something better, but I haven't seen enough data to convince myself that reallocating public institutional land at this point when we only have 60 acres open left is the right choice. I haven't been given enough data there. I have asked for more information from the Pleasanton Unified School District from the planning division, etc., and will educate myself in the meantime, but if you were to ask me at the current time, I'm not supportive of the General Plan Amendment. Chair Ritter: Okay, and to clarify, when was the General Plan created? And how often has it been amended since? Weinstein: So it was adopted in 2005 and it plans out to the year 2025. Chair Ritter: It's been amended three or four times? Weinstein: There's been several General Plan Amendments in the last couple of years I would say. I don't think we have the number at our fingertips, but there's been several General Plan Amendments, primarily for changes in land use designation of the type we're talking about tonight. If I could just clarify really fast, some of the numbers that Commissioner Brown was talking about, just to make it really clear, he's correct. We have 60 acres of privately held, developable P &I land; public and institutional land that's in the context of 600 acres of P &I land overall in the City, so I just want to make that distinction between privately held, developable that is sort of under - utilized and not a lot of development occurring on those 60 acres in the context again of 600 overall acres of P &I land in the City that are privately and publicly held. Some of those sites have existing buildings on them. It doesn't mean that they can't be redeveloped in the future, but again, I just want to call out that point. Chair Ritter: All right, let's move on to the second one. Commissioner Balch: Can I make a few additional statements on this item? Chair Ritter: Sure. Commissioner Balch: So I struggled a little bit at first, especially in light of the 60 acre element that Adam just mentioned, but I would like to mention that the way I was able to PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 19 of 58