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staff's perspective and I can see where he would want that to be clearer for people coming in and trying to identify this. Commissioner Brown: I think the point of the code simplification is to make it clearer for the public, so I think it's a useful point. The other point he made was around the same point you made earlier in terms of we're going to go through a period of tweaking as we go through these learnings. He was talking about a "publicly accessible record of interpretive actions" such that it be rolled back into those periodic code amendments as we go through these three phases. And then also, he was talking about instituting a zoning code amendment adopted every two years, so I wasn't sure if you had any comment or thoughts on his points. Beaudin: I've had this conversation with Mr. Paxson. We kind of agree to disagree on a couple of things and it's still a public process. I understand his desire to have that every two -year check -in. I think it makes sense to bring issues with the code. We do an omnibus for administrative cleanup items on an annual basis in Pleasanton. I think that land use and zoning are a little bit different and sometimes you need to jump right on it and sometimes it's less urgent. I would encourage him to talk with the City Council about creating this as part of a Work Plan item because it's not a minor task. And I would suggest the same thing earlier that we do that at the end of the zoning code cleanup process. I think there's going to be an annual check -in a year or two after the code is updated, and then maybe it makes sense to do it every two years. But it's a significant workload commitment to go through and vet individual projects and look at the development standards that we have in place. Commissioner Brown: My view is the same as yours. It's going to be re- visited multiple times in the next couple of years and then maybe every two years after that as appropriate. I did think it was a useful point around the interpretive piece and is that going to be recorded, or are we relying on staff to just bring those things up when we talk about the future phases? Beaudin: I fully agree with Mr. Paxson on this point. I think for a number of reasons — for budget and staffing reasons primarily, most cities do have an interpretation finder and those are kind of gold with people who work with the code because they've identified the pitfalls and somebody's taken the time to think carefully about it, and that sets if not a precedent, it gives you at least a solid direction to go in when you're trying to tackle these issues. I want to take all of those in Pleasanton and get them into our code and then going forward, I think it's our job to keep track of those and make them publicly available. I have no problem doing that. I'll tell you right now, Steve Otto's zoning code has pencil notes in every margin. So as we get into the zoning code update, we're basically taking those pieces of information depending on the content of the piece of the update that we're doing and we're having conversations about them. I understand the frustration and we're going to do our best to get the pencil notes in the margin into the code. Commissioner Brown: There've been times I've expressed some frustration. I just thought it was a good point. Beaudin: Yes, I'm sharing Mr. Paxson's sentiment. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 30 of 49