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Pleasanton City Council (a FABELLA January 18, 2023 BRAUN+MARTELup Page 9 use is likely to continue. Pleasanton Building Permit# B17-2786. A visit by the undersigned to the front door of the facility on January 16, 2023 confirmed that signs in the window refer to AT&T as the occupant. If the City had performed its statutory duty to investigate and describe the existing use, it would have quickly concluded that AT&T's use was likely to continue. There is continuing market demand for phone and internes access in Pleasanton, and there's no reason to think this business will discontinue or relocate. The City Council is required to make findings based on evidence, not uninformed speculation. If the Council relied only on the information presented by the draft and the staff report, it would be impossible to make findings that this particular building will provide any housing at all, or that its existing use is likely to discontinue, because the necessary analysis has not been presented. See Government Code § 65583.2(g)(1) and (g)(2). Without a Housing Element that informs the City Council what the existing use is, the City Council cannot make credible findings that the existing use will be discontinued. But in light of the information presented in this letter—that the use is actually a key part of the telephone/internet infrastructure of the community—the City Council has enough information to decide: this is not a non-vacant site where the existing use is likely to discontinue during the required timeframe. 7. The Downtown True Value Hardware Parking Lot(APN 94-107-10-4) The site inventory lists APN 94-107-10-4 as"vacant" land. It isn't.9 It's the parking lot next to the downtown hardware store located at 652 Main Street, Pleasanton, between Spring and Division,and is pictured on the left hand side of the photo here: , ^rya . • t.HARD , ,y i"1 .•' s c rii itop 1:04 P. ` 1111' _ I --, • The City Council has no evidence that people will stop parking in the parking lot next to the downtown hardware store during the next eight years; chances are that if anyone wanted to build a four-story apartment building at this location in the heart of the charming downtown, the 9 See HCD Site Inventory Guidebook(May 2020)at p. 24(explaining that paved parking lots are considered non-vacant).