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Ms. Ayala noted that Alameda County owns the land next to the existing BART station and there has been discussion about building housing on land currently used for parking. She asked if the additional levels on the new structure was to make up for parking lost at the other station? Ms. McKeehan responded the additional levels were in the event there was not enough parking for the new station. Mr. Swift said it is not related at all. The number of spaces in the five story parking structure provides the number of spaces for Pleasanton's side of the station and, combined with the Dublin side, will meet the parking demand for the station as determined by BART. Because of the concern some have about furore demands for parking and the fact there is no more space on the BART site, the EIR suggested that there would be a mitigation by adding more stories to the parking structure. Ms. Ayala reiterated her belief that there was discussion that BART would be decreasing the number of parking spaces at the Hacienda station because of building the housing and the spaces would be added to the other station. Ms. McKeehan clarified that there had been discussion about building a parking structure and whether that structure would have more or fewer spaces than the current parking site. A totally separate discussion was about the possibility of a transit hub with housing and additional parking. She has heard nothing about that discussion for a very long time. John Rermels, BART representative, said there are no plans to reduce the amount of parking at the East Dublin or Pleasanton stations. If housing is to be built at that location, then parking spaces would be replaced at that site. Ms. Ayala did not support a seven story parking structure. Mr. Brozosky asked if the traffic model would have to be updated for seven floors? Mr. Swift said a CEQA process would be necessary to add two floors. That would include traffic and everything else necessary. BART would be the lead agency in that process. Mr. Campbell said this is just to make the process possible. Council is not approving anything now. It was moved by Ms. Ayala, seconded by Ms. Hosterman, to approve the MOU deleting the requirement of increasing the structure by two stories if needed. Avner Nagar, architect for Stoneridge and consultant for Taubman Company, indicated the requirement for the two additional levels is not certain at this point. BART could say it does not have the money to build the stronger foundation. He said the requirement was requested by Stoneridge. There is a great concern that BART stations are always short of parking spaces. The neighborhoods near BART stations usually suffer from over-flow parking. In this case, the over- Pleasanton City Council 13 06/03/03 Minutes