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Staff is also recommending the monument signs be designed with a metal cabinet sign with routed out internally illuminated channel letters. . With the few minor suggestions above, staff recommends approval of the major modification to change the land use designation to MCOIPD, to allow hotels/motels on this site, and to approve the design review of the buildings. PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED Mark Sweeney, 4309 Hacienda Drive, represented this application for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Mr. Sweeney advised the neighborhood notices were properly sent out, and that he was not invited to the neighborhood resident meeting. Except for Condition 4, Prudential agrees with the staff report and the conditions of approval. Dennis Meikleham, Summerfield Hotel Corporation, 8100 East 22nd Street, Wichita, KS. Mr. Meikleham gave a brief synopsis of his company. In the Bay Area, they have properties at the San Francisco Airport, Belmont, Sunnyvale and San Jose. He described the four categories of travelers the hotel targets: the relocating executive and family, those attending training sessions, temporary work assignment executives, and others who like the suites hotel concept. Their customers like to have a wide variety of retail within walking distance to the hotel. Site 13F has this availability. . Mr. Meikleham was surprised to see the traffic study delayed until a year after the hotel opens. He feels the traffic engineers should do actual counts at their four other properties in the Bay Area to get accurate trip counts that will occur in Pleasanton. Mr. Meikleham feels their hotels generate half the amount of traffic generated by an office building of the same square footage. Because there is no category for the extended stay suites hotel in national traffic count reports, they have always used actual traffic count studies. Mr. Meikleham stated he is opposed to Condition 4. Chris Kinzel, 4637 Chabot Drive, Suite 214, spoke to the traffic studies and the particular use does not fall in the published categories. Their traffic count performed at the Belmont property came in at one-half the number of generated trips anticipated. Commissioner Wright asked Mr. Kinzel if the Belmont hotel location is near or in a business park which would tend to foster carpooling. Mr. Kinzel stated the Belmont location is adjacent to Oracle which is a heavy-user of the Summerfield hotel. He feels Pleasanton offers more services within walking distance than does the Belmont hotel. Mark Sweeney referred to the "trip bank" and stated that delaying this decision to late 1998 would cause Prudential to have less buildable capacity for the remaining lots. Prudential would like to use the figures from other sources substantiating the hotel will not generate a large amount of traffic. Jeff Krehbiel, 1300 East Lewis, Wichita, KS, stated staff made some very good comments and suggestions for the project. However, Mr. Krehbiel is opposed to Conditions SA through SD and possibly Condition 6. They have spent a great deal of time developing the Summerfield Suites prototype and corporate image. They do not feel it is appropriate to extend the overhangs on this project. They oppose the planter boxes because of the long-term planter operation and maintenance issues. Mr. Krehbiel cited examples of terrible results where they have installed planter boxes at . Planning Commission MInutes Page Ii October 9, 1996