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Chair Allen: One of them was interesting because it's near where the Ponderosa development is. It's Cameron by Martin Avenue and Moore Avenue. It's about a one - acre site that had a gorgeous Walnut tree and the homeowner came up to us afterwards and said —we denied him —and he said, but Ponderosa just got permission from the Planning Commission before us to cut down all the walnut trees on their property to build the Ponderosa property and he said it doesn't seem fair that you're holding me to protecting my tree when you let the developer go and cut down all of the walnut trees on that property. Commissioner O'Connor: He only bought three years ago. I don't think he was there when they took out the .... it was really a half -dying orchard. They weren't 100 year old trees like he had in his backyard. Commissioner Allen: Anyway, it was a good discussion about standards between how we treat developers and residents when they're right next to each other too. Chair Ritter: Anybody go to the Housing Commission? Human Services? Library? Parks and Recreation? Youth Groups? Okay. Commissioner O'Connor: So I did go to the Downtown Vitality. Was that in here somewhere? Chair Ritter: Economic Vitality Committee? Commissioner O'Connor: It was the Downtown Vitality Committee. We had a presentation and guest speaker who presented the new East Pleasanton Master Plan which we know the City isn't supporting. Mr. Dunn was kind of running around talking with different people, some Council people individually. He's going to the DVC. He also went to the Chamber. Anyway, they were presenting that they were downsizing their portion of the property. It's hard to tell because he left out one piece where another owner would develop homes as well from the original site. Probably 100 homes reduction? 150? Something like that of a 900 unit plan or something like that. Beaudin: Can I add some flare to this? Commissioner O'Connor: They were a little surprised to see a Planning Commissioner and a Councilmember attending. Beaudin: So we don't have the DVC on our list because it's technically part of the PDA, so it doesn't show up as an official City meeting. Steve Dunn and his partner, Pam Frentzel -Beyme are out on the road with their reduced East Pleasanton Specific Plan. It's not being reviewed by staff. It's not under consideration by the City at all. They are trying to garner some support in the community and from Council in particular to get it on the Work Plan, and we'll see if they're going to be successful. We'll know more in the first quarter of 2017 when that Work Plan is firmed up. Commissioner O'Connor: So Pam is actually in partnership with Mr. Dunn? She didn't introduce herself. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 37 of 49