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Pleasanton City Council FABELLA January 18, 2023 BRAUN+MARTELLLP Page 4 lacks substantial evidence to support a finding that BART will likely stop using its parking lots for patron parking during this housing element cycle. In addition, when AB 2923 sunsets in 2028,the City's zoning designation for the BART parking lot will preclude development at the density required to yield the number of units the City claims in its draft inventory. 2. The Kaiser Parking Lot(APN 941-1201-52-3) The Kaiser Permanente Medical Center is located at 7601 Stoneridge Drive. To the west of the two medical buildings is the parking lot,covered with solar panels that provide electric power to the medical center. The draft inventory counts this site as providing 182 lower income units. Absent substantial evidence that the use of the parking lot is likely to discontinue—which would make little sense, given the need for doctors, nurses, patients, and lab technicians to get to this busy facility—the city cannot count the parcel towards the need for affordable housing. Building department records show extensive recent renovations. See, e.g., Pleasanton Building Department Record B22-2534(estimated$475,000 job value for tenant improvements on the first and second floor of Kaiser Pediatrics, dated 9/16/2022); B21-2047(estimated $825,000 job value for tenant improvements to remodel and replace X-ray equipment in Imaging Room, and related workstations, dated 7/21/2021); B21-1365 ($425,000 job value for tenant improvements in Adult Medicine A; dated 5/27/2021). The six-acre parking lot has, during the last eight years, also been covered with solar panels to supply electricity to the adjacent building. Solar panels are not a temporary fixture installed by someone who plans to build on a site. The solar installation, for which Pleasanton issued building permits B17-1140 and B17-1141, cost over$900,000. See Pleasanton Building Department Records B17-1140,B17-1141. HAC Appendix Tabs 6, 7. Solar installations save money on utility costs but can take seven years or more for them to recoup the cost of installation. They are an unambiguous sign that the existing uses plan to remain for the long- term. The Kaiser parking lot was rezoned in 2011, but in the eleven years since then,there have been no applications filed for redeveloping the site, no known interest expressed by Kaiser,and no plans to move the medical facility that uses the parking lot(indeed,to the contrary, Kaiser continues to make extensive and recent improvements). Given the extensive improvements to the parking lot by adding a solar system at a cost of nearly one million dollars,the need for parking for the facility, and the demonstrated lack of development interest, Pleasanton lacks substantial evidence that the existing use will cease during the next eight years. The site is presumed not to be realistically suitable and available for meeting the need for affordable housing. Addressing the proposed findings: This is not a site with a building at the end of its useful life, or that is of marginal economic viability. There also does not appear to be any indication of owner interest in redeveloping the entire site. The proposed findings do not satisfy