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Commissioner Ritter said the City does not amend the General Plan very often and this is a great example of a good reason to make a change. It adds community benefit and generates great revenue to support City amenities and he supported it. Commissioner O'Connor agreed that the City does not amend its General Plan often. This is a 40 acre project and is repurposing under-utilized property, and what is being taken away is industrial use with several other sites able to accommodate industrial uses. He did not see industrial land dwindle away, but in this specific location he thinks the project will be a vibrant retail area that will bring more dollars to the City that helps with all of the City's services, and voiced support for recommendation of the GPA. Commissioner Brown agreed with comments and said the light industrial designation here does not make a lot of sense for a gateway of two freeways. He thinks it is under-utilized and the GPA to reclassify it makes a lot of sense and will drive up tax revenue opportunities and also better use. Anytime a change is made to land use it is for the benefit of the City and he believes this is, therefore he voiced his support for the GPA. Commissioner Allen said she was also in favor of the GPA, and echoed comments regarding not taking amendments lightly and this is a smart and strategic reason for amending the General Plan. It maximizes under-utilized property to maximize City revenues and more importantly to serve the community because the community wants more services locally within Pleasanton. It also provides revenues to reinvest in the City and it makes sense. Vice Chair Nagler said a General Plan is a policy statement by a community of what they want their community to look like and how it should be utilized. This idea of taking this land and reallocating it to this use was a very creative one initially and it has been exceedingly well - vetted, and almost 63 percent of the people said they want the GPA to move forward. Therefore, he thinks the GPA is completely appropriate. Lastly, Vice Chair Nagler referred to the recommendation for the creation of a PUD that would include a rezone of the area to a commercial PUD district. Specifically, the two primary areas the Commission should adequately address in its recommendation are: (1) the potential uses, permitted or conditional; and (2) the architectural design guidelines to ensure they are adequate, particularly given the uses that are permitted do not necessarily have to return to the Commission. Commissioner Allen referred to uses and noted that this is valuable property and its uses should be maximized as well as tax revenue. She was interested in uses that do that. Staff stated they wanted some uses that were not high intensity such as senior housing because it would balance high traffic with lower traffic. Therefore, she questioned what the right combination of these is and if they have Costco and hotels, she questioned how much more traffic could the City put on this land to still meet the standards staff has assumed here while still maintaining acceptable LOS. If she were not worried about traffic, she would propose changing a few of the uses that are non -tax or revenue generating to conditional versus permitted. She would like to leave more room for higher intensity uses that would generate more revenue. Therefore, she would take senior care, perhaps the auditoriums and the small massage parlors and make them conditional and not permitted. She also did not see some of the personal services like beauty salons and she would like to add those to the list because if PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, October 11, 2017 Page 7 of 13