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Mr. Russell believed people would try and park in the office area, which would need to be monitored. Ms. McGovern pointed out that there is a large difference between the amounts of available parking spaces for the Dublin side versus the Pleasanton side. She asked why the Pleasanton parking structure was smaller than the Dublin parking structure, Mr. Russell said it was a result of traffic modeling and looking at the traffic patterns coming from south Pleasanton up through the north, which also included the EIR work. The traffic patterns showed that a greater concentration would be coming southbound on Interstate 680 so the vast majority of people would be using the Dublin Station. Ms. McGovern expressed her concem regarding the lack of available parking at the East Dublin Station. She asked if parking at the new parking structures would be free for BART customers. Mr. Russell believed BART customers would need to pay to park at the new parking structures. He noted there would be reserved parking until 10 a.m. Pleasanton Councilmember Thorne mentioned there were several questions at the Pleasanton-Dublin Liaison Committee meeting, which he believed were important. He pointed out the parking structure would be built in such a way that it would allow for future parking decks to be added. He noted that the replacement panels would be graffiti resistant but not scratch resistant and could be replaced. He was assured that the replacement panels would not have a checkerboard effect. Mr. Russell said Ampelon has a certain percentage over the material order in which it has to stock for any future problems. Mr. Thorne expressed concerned about how the construction of the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station would interact with the expansion of the Mall. Mayor Hosterman mentioned that Mr. Thorne, Mayor Lockhart, Ms. Hildenbrand and she had an opportunity to query BART representatives regarding the proposed future BART Station. She was looking forward to the new station, which she believed would be a tremendous amenity for both cities as well as the entire Tri-Valley area. She asked if Councilmembers had the opportunity to understand the parking on the Pleasanton side of the freeway and the flat parking scheme versus the actual parking structure and the fact that it might be a few years down the road before this structure was built. Mr. Russell pointed out there is only one other private/public development in the country. He noted there are three financing mechanisms: (1) the private development which would be a ground lease with BART and the ground lease will be prepaid; (2) grant funds from the CMA and the TVTC; and (3) a bond issue, the revenues of which would be coming from the Station and the parking garages and the County is currently Joint PleasantonlDublin City Council 5 09/19/05 Minutes