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There was a request from staff to hear Item 8.e. Review of Draft Civic Center /Library Master Plan prior to the Public Hearing item. The Commission agreed to the agenda revision. 5. CONSENT CALENDAR Consent Calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted, approved, or adopted by one motion unless a request for removal for discussion or explanation is received from the Planning Commission or a member of the public by submitting a speaker card for that item. Commissioner Nagler was noted present at 7:09 p.m. (Moved on Agenda) 8. MATTERS FOR COMMISSION'S REVIEW /ACTION /INFORMATION e. Matters for Commission's Information (1) Review of Draft Civic Center /Library Master Plan Brian Dolan presented the staff report and described the scope, layout, and key elements of the Draft Civic Center /Library Master Plan. Commissioner Nagler: First of all, I want everybody to recognize what's obvious but just to say it, which is Brian did a terrific job in leading this task force. He started with a sort of a big unknown which is how do you structure such a conversation? How do we move a group of people who aren't accustomed to thinking on such a planning project through this conversation? And, he did a great job. We started, we had a middle and we had a successful end, and that's the measure. Obviously we'll need to hear your feedback. I just want to say two quick things. One is that it should be emphasized that this task force when it got together really believed that now is the timing it can occur; that even though we've had conversations in the past obviously about rebuilding this site, expanding the library, doing a number of things, the timing didn't seem to be as opportune as it is today and financing clearly is going to be the big question mark. But, having said that, this task force took this project as seriously as it did because there really is a belief that because of the utilization of the library, because of the dilapidation of this site, because of the state of the economy, because of the growth of the community and sense of self, that now really there is probably the best opportunity that we've had in a long time to do this project. And then the other thing to say was there was very early consensus around the fact that public buildings can do something for a community that no private project can accomplish and that to plan this out well and to do something bold is to say that Pleasanton really is making a statement about itself, and if done well, we would bring the community into the Civic Center, into the Library, into government buildings in a way that just doesn't exist today particularly with these meeting spaces and common spaces and twice the size of a library. We would invite the community really to participate in PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 28, 2016 Page 2 of 32