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• Architecture and Design • Site Layout and Development Standards • Parking, Circulation, and Driveways • Traffic • Noise • Health Risk Assessment • Tree Removal and Landscaping • Concerns Raised by the Adjoining Property Owner to the South Conformance with the General Plan The project site has a General Plan Land Use Designation of"Retail/Highway/Service Commercial; Business and Professional Offices." The proposed project conforms to the General Plan land use designation and with the following General Plan policies and programs: Policy 13: Ensure that neighborhood, community, and regional commercial centers provide goods and services needed by residents and businesses of Pleasanton and its market area. Program 13. 1: Zone sufficient land for neighborhood, community, and regional commercial uses to support Pleasanton's increasing business activity. Policy 14: Provide adequate neighborhood commercial acreage to serve the future needs of each neighborhood at buildout. Program 14. 1: Locate appropriately-scaled commercial centers with reasonable access to the residential neighborhoods they serve. In addition, the proposed project with a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 11% is below the maximum 60% FAR allowed for commercial land uses by the General Plan. Thus, the proposed project conforms to the General Plan. PUD Rezoning and Uses Section 18.44 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code (PMC) includes six commercial districts. One of the purposes of having various commercial districts is to provide appropriately located areas for the variety of commercial businesses that serve residents of the City and its surrounding market area. As such, some uses may be permitted in one commercial district but not in another. The project is located within the C-N district, which does not allow the particular use proposed, a self-service gas station combined with a drive-through carwash and/or with a convenience market. Further, the sale of alcoholic beverages in conjunction with a gas station is not allowed in any of the commercial zoning districts. As such, rezoning the subject site from the current C-N District to a Planned Unit Development - Commercial (PUD-C) District would be needed in order to allow the development of the desired uses. Although the uses noted above are not permitted in combination with one another, standalone gas stations and convenience stores are permitted in the C-N District, subject to a conditional use permit, and a convenience store and gas station have been operating simultaneously, on immediately adjacent sites, for several decades. PUD-134/P18-0332/P18-0334 Planning Commission Page 15 of 24 site plan, circulation, and parking acceptable? PUD-134/P18-0332/P18-0334 Planning Commission Page 3 of 24 a convenience market that would include the sale of alcoholic beverages, the applicant requests the current zoning of the site be changed in order to allow the proposed project. The proposed Planned Unit Development-Commercial (PUD-C) zoning would require a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for the service station with convenience market with the sale of PUD-134/P18-0332/P18-0334 Planning Commission Page 2 of 24