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organization wants to operate in town, they're usually able to find a space for it. We're working with a handful of them right now in different zoning districts and General Plan designated sites throughout the city. I don't think any of them in terms of our current religious applications are looking at public and institutional sites. I think they're all looking at other sites. Chair Ritter: So the answer's no, there's no need for that right now Commissioner Balch: This is just a workshop so the conditions you mentioned earlier, those are still being crafted for later? Beaudin: Yes, and can I just let Adam maybe add to that last point. Weinstein: Yes, it's important. I don't want to say that public and institutional land is not used in the City and we shouldn't be really, really careful about amending the land use designation for sites like this, but there are lots of considerations to look at when there's an application like this. We look at the overall amount of acreage in the city that's designated for public and institutional uses. We look at what the demand is for public and institutional lands both at this time and in the future so I definitely don't want to downplay or discount the seriousness of re- designating a site from something to something else, but again, there are lots of considerations we look at. It doesn't appear to us there's a shortage of public and institutional land at this point in time. It doesn't mean there couldn't be such a shortage in the future. It's hard to anticipate how conditions will change in the future. Chair Ritter: Okay, great. Thank you. Again, this is a workshop so how many have been at a workshop before? (A few hands were raised) A workshop is an opportunity for us to exchange ideas and to give staff and the developer some feedback based on what we see so far. It sounds like there has been good outreach. We're going to have a report from the applicant first, but I wanted to point out that's what a workshop is. After we hear from the applicant, we'll have those who have filled out speaker cards come up. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Pam Hardy, Applicant: Good evening Chair Ritter, Commissioners and staff. I wanted to thank the Commission as well as staff for accommodating the application as well as the Valley Trails Community with a special meeting tonight. We appreciate that. I'm going to make my remarks somewhat limited because I know there's a whole lot of folks here in the audience that I'm sure would like to speak sooner than later. I think staff's done an excellent job on the staff report. Again, thank you. A couple of fill -in's from what the staff alluded to but may not have pointed out specifically is that we have not only been working with the community at large in Valley Trails for the past two years and as highlighted in your staff report, through that iterative process with the neighborhood, yes, the project has changed. We've made a lot of refinements. We've reduced the number of lots and because of it; we've produced a better plan as a result of neighborhood input. So we've had a very good collaborative and working relationship over the past two years and we've come out with a better design because of it. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 9 of 58