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Commissioner Blank inquired if all the permitted uses on Exhibit C of the original staff report would be included as part of the entitlement when the project comes back as a formal application. Chairperson Arkin explained that the uses are included in the existing PUD that covers the entire Stanley Business Pazk. Mr. Pavan explained that a modification is necessary to allow the neighborhood commercial uses and the satellite stores facing Bernal Avenue and Stanley Boulevard. He indicated that the uses that staff would recommend to the Commission has not yet been determined and that staff will look at the permitted uses and eliminate those uses that would be inappropriate for the site. Commissioner Fox inquired if the 3,000 trips per weekday and 6,000 trips per weekend for Home Depot alone would be equivalent, at 10 trips per household, to building 300 to 600 homes at the corner of Valley Avenue and Stanley Boulevard. Mr. Pavan replied that he would be unable to answer at this time. He continued that trip generation for AM/PM peak hour impacts is based on the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) numbers, and in that context, a home improvement superstore such as Home Depot would have an AM trip generation rate of 1.5 trips per 1,000 feet and 2.9 trips per 1,000 square feet. He added that a compazison of Home Depot and the equivalent number of residential homes can be done. Commissioner Fox recalled that in 2003 when the Commission considered the carwash and gas station at this location, a determination was made that no additional traffic would be attracted by those businesses as people stopping to gas up were already driving on that road. She inquired if an EIR would need to be done for Home Depot in order for it to go forwazd since it would be putting traffic in a place that is already gridlocked. Mr. Pavan replied that an EIR would not be necessazy because the project includes mitigation measures in terms of widening streets and creating through and turn lanes. He explained that in the case of the service station, the project was relatively small so it was not feasible for that applicant to be able to do any changes at that intersection. He noted, however, that Home Depot is a lazge project and, consistent with the scope of project, should be responsible for mitigating traffic impacts to fix the traffic situation at the site. He added that the environmental study for the project would be handled as an Initial Study and Negative Declaration. Commissioner Fox noted that Stanley Boulevazd would be widened from eight to ten lanes and Bernal Avenue at the south leg would be widened from six to eight lanes. She inquired if this would be constrained by the one-lane bridge on the other side and if a new bridge would have to be built. Mr. Pavan replied that the City has reinstated the permit approvals to construct the bridge, which should begin in 2007. In response to Commissioner Fox's inquiry if the bridge would have four lanes on either side, Mr. Grubstrick replied that the new bridge would mirror the existing bridge and ~ would have a total of four lanes. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 24, 2006 Page 28 of 34