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Councilmember Olson announced receiving a letter today from the Building Industry Association (BIA) and inquired whether staff will provide a response. City Manager Fialho announced it will be addressed in an upcoming meeting. Councilmember Brown indicated some of the numbers have changed tremendously and inquired whether staff has considered a "phase-in" process. City Manager Fialho reported one of the requests from the BIA was to phase-in some of the changes; however, he noted staff recommends the changes beginning effective January 1 2019. He added if the applications are substantially complete, there would be a grace period. Councilmember Brown referenced Affordable Housing Impact Fees and requested an explanation as to why a retail establishment or a hotel/motel should be paying into it. It was noted the methodology used for affordable housing was based on the type of employment that is generated by the land use and the income those employees would have. Councilmember Pentin referenced a 275% increase in Affordable Housing Impact Fees and noted that is only applicable to Alternate 1 if the City Council were to adopt maximum fees across the board. Councilmember Brown referenced staff recommendations based on cumulative impact fees and staff confirmed, compared to averages, Pleasanton would have the lowest. City Manager Fialho suggested looking at staff recommendations for the Capital Facility Building and Transportation Fees and then the Affordable Housing Fees. The Capital and Transportation Fees have a City ceiling which is the maximum that can be charged. It puts the City below the average, but the methodology used does not allow the City to get to the average and limits the City's ability to charge more. Staff tried to come up with a methodology that would honor the Nexus Study and also put the City at the mid-point between Livermore and Dublin for economic development reasons; beyond that, setting the fees is a policy issue. Mayor Thorne asked about the shelf-life of the Nexus Study and Finance Director Olson responded it is five years. Councilmember Narum referenced the City's goals in getting to the average between Dublin and Livermore, adding the single-family and multi-family is below the average. Pleasanton has the capacity to increase the Affordable Housing Fees in those two categories. Finance Director Olson confirmed the City could, as a policy, increase them and added the City's intent to stay more competitive between Dublin and Livermore. Councilmember Pentin noted Pleasanton is already at the Dublin and Livermore average on Housing Fees. Finance Director Olson reported the City Council could increase the Housing Fees to get to the overall cumulative average. Mayor Thorne opened the public hearing. Steve Dunn, representing USL Pleasanton Lakes, referenced industrial and warehouse uses and reported agreeing with staffs recommendation on the concept of keeping the fees at, or lower, than the average to neighboring cities. However, when looking at warehouse uses in industrial zones, Dublin looks at it the same as Pleasanton in terms of having warehousing and manufacturing in industrial zones. However, in Livermore, warehouse is significantly less, because it drives less traffic than manufacturing. Looking at warehouse fees, in all three cities, Pleasanton would be higher than Livermore would. He asked the City Council to consider warehouse uses and suggested if developers include those costs into improvements, they should get an offset credit. City Council Minutes Page 4 of 6 September 4, 2018