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· Significant variation of all building volumes and facades replicating the "main street" appearance of individual store buildings are used on all structures including Home Depot. Building materials and colors include hardiplank horizontal siding - a recognized green building material - painted Navajo beige, eagle slate gray composition roof shingles, light beige cultured stone wainscots, navy blue awnings, and platinum gray stucco/trim detailing. Access and Parking: Two points of vehicular access will be provided to the site from Bernal Avenue, and two points of access will be provided from Stanley Boulevard. As requested by the Congregation Beth Emek, there shall be no public street or emergency vehicle access allowed to the site from Nevada Court. All access driveways and internal circulations areas are designed to City standards. The overall parking ratio will be one parking space per 276 square feet of floor area for a total of 702 parking spaces creating a surplus of 57 parking spaces. Only 70 parking spaces - ten percent of proposed parking - will be compact-size parking spaces. DISCUSSION Items Discussed in the Planning Commission Staff Report The attached Planning Commission staff report contains a detailed analysis with figures and tables on the following issues: Building Design; Grading/Urban Stormwater Runoff; Green Building Measures; Landscape Design; Operations including "Home Depot", "Other Home Depot Locations", and "Longs Drugs"; Pleasanton General Plan; Signage; Site Design including "Site Design", "Future Land Division, Loading Areas", "Parking Lot Light Fixtures", "Shopping Cart Storage Areas", and "Refuse Collection"; Urban Storm Water Runoff; and, Zoning including "Stanley Business Park PUD Development Plan", "PUD Major Modification", and "Hazardous Materials". A summary of the more significant issues raised by this proposal including the Planning Commission's recommendations on these issues follows. Traffic, Parking, and Off-lOn-Site Circulation Traffic has been a major issue with this proposal. To address the traffic impacts and mitigations resulting from the project, a traffic report, "Report for (the) Home Depot Shopping Center Traffic Study," dated July 14, 2006, has been prepared by Dowling Associates (Attachment 12). The report analyzed the existing/approved/project scenario. The traffic analysis also included the proposed garden center's square footage and use as a destination location. However, it did not include the approved trips for the California Splash development given that its trips were determined to be primarily off-peak trips, thereby not impacting the weekday a.m.lp.m. peak commute hours: 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., respectively. The traffic study factored "internal capture" and "pass-by" trips, which lowers the development's trip generation to the surrounding street system. After these trip reductions, the total Page 9 of 21