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Pleasanton City Council FARELL+MA January 18, 2023 BRAUNARTEL LLP Page 7 —will cease during the next eight years,this heavily utilized and thriving commercially zoned site cannot be appropriately included as accommodating the lower income need. 5. Inklings Coffee and Nearby Parcels(APNs 94-104-3, -104-8-3, and-104-12). In the heart of Pleasanton's downtown is a city block bounded by Main Street, Division Street, Railroad Avenue, and Neal Street. The block consists of at least eighteen buildings with retail, professional, and restaurant uses. Inklings Coffee, at 548 Main Street, is situated alongside the entrance to the parking lot, and sits on parcel 94-104-12. Inklings Coffee&Tea is by no measure a dilapidated or disused building. City records show that the building was remodeled in 2016 for Inklings to move in. The parking lot to the left of it is packed with both customers for Inklings and those who visit surrounding businesses in the downtown. Three parcels, including the one used by Inklings,a small lot with several businesses and facing Neal Street, and a third,thin strip of land used as a fire lane to Railroad Avenue, comprise the site. a eg __.. ir Nan 61011 111113 Inklings Coffee&Tea The fire lane, facing towards Railroad Avenue APN 094-104-12 APN 094-104-3 parking lots. For a complex site like Rose Pavilion,with restaurant and retail uses,the math requires considerable analysis. See, e.g. Pleasanton Zoning Code § 18.88.030(C)(1)(food stores: one space per 150 square feet of gross floor area), (4)(non-food retail: one space per 300 square feet, excepting storage and loading areas), and (8) (restaurants: one space per three seats or each 200 square feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater). There is no evaluation in the draft Housing Element of whether the portion of the parking lot that would remain without these two parcels would satisfy even the minimum requirements for the retail and restaurant uses of the rest of Rose Pavilion. Under sections 65583.2(c), and 65583.2(g)(1)and (2), such analysis is required both to assure that the existing use is"likely"to cease, and also to correctly determine the number of units that the two parcels could accommodate.