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City of Pleasanton, CA - City Council Minutes Page 6 of 16 concerned it would block views. He preferred Plans A or D, depending on where the train station is located. With regard to safety concerns about the railroad tracks and the station, he suggested a walkover from the school. With regard to the sports parks, he supported the third alternative. He preferred the civic arts complex near the freeway and believed with today's technology and engineering, noise problems could be handled. Scott Trobbe, 1690 Dell Avenue, Campbell, representing South Bay Development Company, indicated his company owned forty acres at the comer of Bemal and 1-680. He applauded the City for the process that is being followed. Given the state of the office market, it is unlikely his company will be building on the property soon. Other alternatives are being considered for the property. He did not care where the cultural arts center was located. If it is near his property, there was discussion about using some of his property for an access. He indicated there is flexibility in working with City in this process. A speaker referred to the original design, which showed a small piece of property between the apartments and service station on Valley Avenue. This was to be a rose garden park and on subsequent plans there is nothing shown in this area. He wanted to know what is planned for this location. Mr. Brozosky indicated that was to be a daycare center. Mr. Rasmussen agreed. It has not been shown in plans because it was not in an area of major discussion to date. It will appear in future plans on June 21. There were no other speakers. There was a break at 8:25 p.m. The workshop reconvened at 8:30 p.m. Mayor Hosterman invited comments from the Council and Commissioners. She asked them to refer to page 6 of the staff report to work through the recommendations. Mr. Kummer referred to the design competition and believed the idea was to have one overall plan for the property instead of listening to competing groups asking for their piece of the pie. There was an extensive competition with entries from all over the world with a winner chosen. He did not want to change that design very much. He was not in favor of moving the civic arts center north along Bemal, when the design competition winner had it on Valley Avenue. The City has already gone out to bid for Phase I, the sports fields and streets, etc. He did not see how that could be changed at this time. He would like to leave the ACE train station where it was. He did not hear people speaking in favor of putting it on the Bernal property. He noted the stage portion of the civic arts building would be seven stories and he could not see that on Bemal Avenue. He did not think people would walk that distance from downtown. That is not occurring with the Amador Theater, which is a shorter distance. He would like to keep the civic arts building in the southern part of the property. Mr. Fotheringham said engineering studies could be done to keep the noise down. It is easier to mitigate noise closer to the freeway than it is farther away. Pursuant to the staff report, the Youth Commission, Parks, Planning, and Civic Arts Commissions recommended that the cultural arts center be on Valley Avenue. The Planning Commission was divided 50/50, but every other commission said that is where it should be and the parks design http://www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us/archive/ccminutes050512ws.html 6/9/2005