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Regarding the use of on-street parking, staff notes that residents use public streets for their and their visitors' parking in almost all neighborhoods throughout the City. In this case, staff believes that when the street in front of theses homes may be used for commercial parking (during weekdays), the demand for residential on-street parking would be lower, and when the residents are home and more likely to park on the street (nights and weekends), the commercial parking demand would be low. Therefore, staff does not see the use of on-street parking by residents, resulting from tandem parking or not, as an impact to the Downtown commercial area. In-lieu Parking During the public review process, some members of the Pleasanton Downtown Association (PDA) expressed concerns with the proposed tandem parking plan, believing that it might impact on-street parking used for Downtown businesses. Although the Downtown Parking In-Lieu Program technically applies only to the commercial area of Downtown, the applicant proposes to pay $28,000 into the City's Parking In-Lieu Fund for Downtown. This amount would be equivalent to two parking spaces based on the $14,000/space in-lieu parking fee. The Downtown Specific Plan has an objective of creating 400 new parking spaces in the Downtown by build-out, consisting of both public and private parking. The applicant's proposal would address and mitigate the parking concerns expressed by contributing to the Downtown parking fund for the construction of public parking lots in the area. Landscaping A tree report by HortScience dated "June 25, 2004" was prepared for the project. The arborist delineated twelve trees of value to the site. Five of those trees are defined as heritage trees. Two existing coast live oak and one Modesto ash will be preserved on the site. The applicants have agreed to retain or move elsewhere the existing coast live oak tree at the rear of the site by the western property line since this tree is in good condition and suitable for relocation. The other oak tree and the Modesto ash tree to be preserved are both street trees. There are nine trees which are greater than six inches in diameter identified for removal. These trees are exotics and will be replaced with sixteen new trees, a 1.7:1 replacement ratio. In light of the tree size and replacement ratio related to a 0.26 acre site, staff believes that the trees to be removed are substantially mitigated by the proposed landscaping plan. As conditioned by staff, all trees would be a minimum of 15 gallons in size except that three of those trees will be 24" box size, as conditioned. Shrubs would be a minimum size of 5-gallons. Staff believes that the proposed plant species and locations are appropriate and would mitigate removal of the existing trees. As recommended in the Downtown Design Guidelines, the applicants propose to landscape areas adjacent to SR:05:258 Page 7