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Commissioner Maas said Ponderosa has 172 units of concentrated senior housing, a good portion of which is affordable. She felt some seniors wanted to be in a mixed age group and might not want to live in a concentrated senior housing setting. She would like to see the Human Services Commission's input on this concept. It sounds terrific to have affordable senior housing bit is this something the City really needs? Commissioner Sullivan noted the chart that staff provided showed where the City is with some of these issues. There is a lot of interest in transit oriented housing near the BART station and how some of those traffic strategies might solve some of the existing traffic problems. There is a lot of interest in some sort of senior project at Staples Ranch. The Vintage Hills Shopping Center is another location, but certainly not on an expedited basis and not before the City is done with the General Plan. The Commission feels that the General Plan process needs to be completed before making individual decisions. When the Commission recommended a moratorium there was one project that wanted to be expedited; now there are six projects requesting expedition. Commissioner Roberts said projects are moving forward and the process does not stop. She felt some people were looking for an approval before the project was even seen. The Commission was excited about the Business Park plans. The recommendation was for inclusionary housing to be kept at 15% - 20%. This was also the Housing Commissions recommendation. There is a need for staff to come up with a plan for credits. There was concern over ownership of housing and people following the guidelines. They would like to see this move along so that people leave the program in 5 - 7 years. The range of affordability is of concern. People come to a heating and expect only 40 affordable and then it gets to 60 - 70 units. Commissioner Fox said the issue of someone having a credit and substituting rental for ownership units is of concern to her. The City is so close to build out. She is concerned that the South Bay project should go back to the voters though the South Bay Property is not part of the public use property, because the voters may have assumed there would be no more housing on the Bernal Property. Commissioner Arkin added he would like to have Council consider redesignafing the DSRSD site, even though it is a long-term project. There is no harm done to redesiguate it now. If it were to be redesiguated, it would be extra encouragement for DSRSD to accelerate its plans because it knows it has the redesignation already taken care of. This is consistent with the housing element of the General Plan. This site is ideally situated for a mixed-use site because of the surrounding businesses and there would be minimal community objection. Councilmember Brozosky asked the Commissioners if there was any discussion regarding incentives to encourage affordable by design. Commissioner Roberts said she thought 20% affordable by design and smaller houses were needed. Minutes of the 15 06.29.04 Joint Workshop City Council & Planning Commission