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III. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The applicant would demolish the vacant restaurant building and remove most of the existing landscaping on the property, including 37 trees, eight of which are defined as "Heritage Trees" by the Municipal Code. Thirteen of the existing trees would be retained, two of which are heritage-sized trees. Please see the attached tree removal plan for the specific trees to be removed. A total of 177 new parking spaces would be constructed, comprised of approximately 121 spaces on the 6180 Stoncridge Mall site and approximately 56 spaces on the 6220 Stoneridge Mall site (Note: parking numbers are approximate since an existing property line bisects some of the parking spaces). Existing driveways would provide access to the new parking areas. New parking lot landscaping would be installed to match the plant species used in the Pleasanton Corporate Commons project: London plane and ornamental pear trees and cotoneaster and St. Johnswort groundcovers. IV. ANALYSIS Site Plan Staff generally believes that the parking lot is well designed and provides adequate planter areas to break up the parking lot paving. Regarding on-site circulation, staff believes that the three parallel parking spaces that are proposed at the easternmost end of the site would not allow efficient parking and would impact circulation when vehicles are parking in these spaces. Furthermore, there are several existing trees and shrubs that would need to be removed to create the parallel parking spaces. Therefore, staff recommends that the three parallel parking spaces be deleted and that the existing planter area be retained. A condition of approval addresses this item. Parking The Pleasanton Corporate Commons campus was developed with 2,076 parking spaces, or one space per 291 gross square feet of floor area. While the number of parking spaces exceeds the minimum number of parking spaces required by the Municipal Code (one space per 300 gross square feet of floor area or 2,016 spaces), the applicant has indicated that additional parking is needed at the campus, primarily to accommodate the parking needs of E-Loan, located in the 6230 Stoneridge Mall Road building, which has a high employee density. The City approved a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program as part of the Pleasanton Corporate Commons project. The TDM program included a combination of commute programs and physical infrastructure intended to encourage commute alternatives such Page - 3