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Commissioner Balch: I would just comment that I don't agree with using a mobile citizen app to report to the city that a private property owner has made a mistake on their private property with where they put an EV charging station. Would you like the city to come out and tell them? Chair Ritter: Is this a private property? Commissioner O'Connor: We would have approved this Commissioner Brown: We would have approved the plans. Noted Present: Commissioner Nagler was noted present at 7:12 p.m. Commissioner Nagler: When we're looking at plans like at Lund Ranch, are we looking at where they're going to put a public charging station? Commissioner O'Connor: We don't, but whoever looks at the... Commissioner Brown: I don't know if staff wanted to comment. Beaudin: So it's not an agendized item so I'm not going to go very far here at all tonight. I will say I'm happy to talk with any of you at any given time about EV charging stations. We do look at these when we approve projects. In this particular instance, I was able to talk with the person who was the Community Development Director at the time and this was early in the EV charging game for the City of Pleasanton in general. There just weren't that many cars when we were approving this project and not as many as now and so what ended up happening here is we didn't want to forego the regular vehicle parking at that point in time as part of the approval process. It was put there. It was part of the applicant's program. It wasn't required by the City and the expectation was that this would be a station used for staff and not necessarily for the general public. Obviously, it's there and people will want to use it and it could be designed better and we would do it differently if we were looking at it today. So we do look at this. We are also doing a zoning code update and so when we're looking at our parking standards and requirements, we'll get into EV charging in more detail just like we'll get into bicycle parking requirements in more detail. That's probably as far as I'll go here tonight, but that's kind of a project specific and maybe higher level look at EV charging. Chair Ritter: Thank you. Any other matters? Commissioner Allen: For staff, I was just reading the latest Independent which had an article about ABAG housing projections for Tri- Valley cities that said that through 2040 Pleasanton would add 9,900 units and it had numbers for Dublin, Livermore, and I guess the other cities are having their forecasts verified and then it goes to their City Council for ratification. What I'm wondering, one, is the number right, and number two is what is our process if any for validating or taking this number further? Commissioner O'Connor: Isn't this early for ABAG? PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, October 26, 2016 Page 5 of 8