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now, if you put in "liquor store" one PUD -C site will show prohibited and another PUD -C site will show "permitted." Commissioner Balch: That is incredible. Beaudin: Just so folks know, there are not 100 PUDs, there are hundreds of PUDs in Pleasanton. Commissioner Brown: The reason I asked the question is because I played with it a little bit. I put in a sample category and I found a whole bunch .... if it's accurate, it seems like you get a bunch of businesses that are in places that aren't permitted. So now that you've got this great database, are you going back and checking its accuracy or overlaying businesses and their licenses against the map? Beaudin: We're checking it and folks like our Hacienda partner are checking it. We're taking that feedback. There's permitted, conditionally permitted, and not permitted uses, and so we want to make sure we're kind of catching any errors that we have in the system. So if you've noticed anything, we'll take the feedback. It was a monumental lift, so we expect there to be bugs. Everything that we put out in terms of a response to folks says please call to confirm, especially in this launch phase that we're in. We want to make sure people are getting the best information possible and that still means giving us a call and talking through the use that you want to put in. Commissioner Brown: Yes, I was showing my wife who thinks this is a wonderful website. She's like, well, my competition is here, here and here and it's all in grey, and that's why I was kind of asking. What might be kind of cool and not to suggest features, but on that point, if I'm looking at a business —say I want to open a fast food store, if you already have the business licenses and you have the ability to move, then much like the Google maps, you can add in an overlay. It'd be kind of cool to think about and see all of the other businesses in town that have that same category so that you can sort of say, well I don't want to be there because I don't want to be close to my competition or I do want to be there because I want to be close to my competition. The other thing as well is I know at the counter you have handouts around special conditions and so on, and I think Gerry and I had a dialogue on one. Is there any sort of putting those handouts out? Oh, you want to open a fast food restaurant. There are some special conditions you should be aware of. Is there any attempt to integrate that into the website? Beaudin: So our permit center manager is looking at all of our forms and handouts right now and we're going to comprehensively update everything between now and the end of the year. So we'll be putting them in the appropriate locations both online and in the permit center and working with Kendall and her staff. It's something that we haven't spent a lot of time on in the last couple of years so yes. The answer is yes, we're going to have that information. What we also want to have is auto -fill PDFs, so when people are filling out applications, they can do that online so you can go from "what do I need to submit ?" to "I'm going to start my submittal" all within our website and we're hoping that in the next 3 -4 months we'll have a lot of that work done. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 14, 2016 Page 21 of 22