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Ms. McGovern requested information on how much grazing and agricultural land is left in the community, as well as the amount of public and institutional land. She did not want to make any decisions about properties in that designation until she had that data. She did not want to make changes on the Westbrook property. She preferred to see some kind of plan before making a change to medium density residential. It is hard to analyze some of these properties without some kind of plan, such as on the Austin property. She asked why the Lester property included a public health and safety designation. She believed the plan for the Austin property was a good one. It maintains view sheds of the ridge, gives open space between housing that is already there, and it has an opportunity to augment the Alviso Adobe Park. Regarding the West Dublin BART station, she was interested in looking at transit-oriented development, but felt that 350 multi-family units were too many. She thought the problem of a grocery store could be solved with a 7-11 or similar store to provide eggs, milk or bread, etc. She liked the proposal because it was near a large shopping center. The existing housing, such as condominium townhouse, rentals, etc. is in the same realm as a multi-family development. She liked the fact that it is close to a new BART station and believed the plans could be work on to make a good project. She could not change the Knuppe property to medium density residential without seeing some kind of plan. The last time she spoke to the developers, it appeared they would reduce the number of units and continue with the assisted living project. They had talked to the neighbors, and were possibly going to reduce the height of the buildings to two stories, instead of three or four, to maintain the view shed for existing residents and to blend in more with the neighborhood. Regarding the Church property, she understood the need to have income to upgrade existing facilities. However, she did not want to change the zoning at this time. If the Church and Ponderosa were willing to work with the neighborhood, she would be willing to review a proposed plan. She felt the park portion should be dedicated to the city. She did not think the city had enough money to pay for the park. She is hoping there is enough money for the firehouse theater, the Veterans' Memorial Building upgrades, and other CIP projects. She was sorry the Lemoine and Merritt properties were not part of this presentation because she wanted a better understanding of the status of those properties. She asked staff for that information. She did not want the Lemoine children to have to move out of Pleasanton and felt the development on their property so far is an asset to the community. None of these properties include reference to rental and everything she has heard from the Economic Vitality Committee and the Housing Commission has indicated the most affordable properties in the city are rentals. She was looking for a place in the community to build rental units. (There was a comment from the audience that one of the proposals was for "market rate rental".) Ms. McGovern asked if, within the market rate rental units, there could be some affordable units? She wondered if there were areas in the community that could be redeveloped and if units should be reserved for that purpose. She felt with the addition of a theater and better parking downtown, she believed that would be a good location for redevelopment to increase density and to provide a walk able community. Steve Brozosky was not in favor of increasing density along Foothill Road by building duets or high density residential. He believed the goal was to feather out density toward the urban growth boundary. He did not want higher density on the Lester property. He believed any housing on Foothill Road would be more expensive homes and it was not the place to build affordable by design smaller homes. He indicated he was excited about the Austin family proposal that fits in with the park. Even though the density is a little higher than RDR, he felt the units could be tucked in and the homes would not be visible. He felt some of the foothill zoning designations may need to be reviewed and not zone things as so many units per acre, but rather to analyze how many units could fit in certain clustered areas. He did not want to spread houses all over the foothills, but to cluster them in tucked away places. He has not met with other property owners, so it was hard to visualize what they wanted to do and he was not sure it Joint Workshop City CounciVPlanning Commission 19 03/01/06