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just want to make sure I understand that comment. Where was that at? Was that in the Point 10 part in the Purpose? Commissioner Allen: It was the top of page 19; "The purpose of the District is as follows ". Gerry's proposal was to have one sentence that had commercial and residential. Mine was just to say Point A would focus on the purpose to have a vibrant business commercial center that's pedestrian scale and supports and complements other downtown businesses and draws people into downtown. Point A would focus on the business side of the C -C district. Commissioner Balch: So you would add that in? Commissioner Allen: Yes. Commissioner Balch: Brand new wordsmith in. Commissioner Allen: Yes. Chair Ritter: I agree with you Nancy, but I think it's almost like we're a little ahead —if we had the DSP, and I don't want to restrict that group from doing what they think we should do down there by creating this code right now but this one leaves it open since C -C is mostly downtown from what you're telling me. Commissioner Balch: Although I see her argument that, you know, we look back to the purpose statements to kind of give us the context of the point, right? Chair Ritter: But won't the DSP come up with a purpose? Commissioner Allen: It's two years away. Chair Ritter: It's January. Commissioner Balch: Well. if we had that we'd be done here. Commissioner Allen: Maybe we just keep with what we have until it's redone. So what did this used to say before it was revised? Bonn: So the only new language is what's underlined here, the rest is existing language. Commissioner Allen: "To maintain compactness and encourage more intensive development in Pleasanton Central Business District." So that is a business. You know what? I'm okay leaving it as is and not changing the name too. See, by changing the name, we've eliminated the word "business." I mean, that's the other angle of this. It's subtle but revitalization has nothing to do specifically with the commercial district and we sort of lost that this is the heart of the downtown pedestrian scale commercial business. That's my main point. I think we lost by both the name change and the way we just talked about mixed use which often times implies more residential. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 25 of 49