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Mr. Iserson said that is one approach to use, but he hesitated making the reserve too large because it becomes such a large percentage of the housing units left and there could be problems in terms of the EIR analysis for the General Plan, since the units are not allocated to any particular area. Mr. Fialho indicated if Council decided to allocate zero units to the Hacienda Business Park, for EIR purposes, staff would model what it is currently zoned for, which is commerciaVoffice and some limited industrial and residential. Staff would put into the reserve whatever numbers of units are related to expansion, such as for transit-oriented residential. As the specific plan comes forward and is refined and looks like something Council would want to consider, then traffic analysis would be done and the results would be layered on top of the adopted General Plan. Mr. Thorne asked if all units in the Hacienda Business Park are used for residential development, what would be used in the future for commercial uses? Mr. Iserson said it depended on how Hacienda structures its proposal, whether it requested to retain all or some of its commercial units and adds residential units to that or replaced commercial with residential. He believed discussions would start with keeping some or all of existing entitlements for commercial/office/industrial units. Since there are a large number of jobs in the community relative to housing, he did not think it would be necessary to find another place for any lost commercial development in Hacienda. Mayor Hosterman summarized that the task at this meeting was to create a model that gives some idea of the spread of unit numbers, so staff can generate traffic circulation figures. She asked Council to state their opinions regarding public and institutional zoning and dispersal of units. Mr. Brozosky did not want to change any public and institutional zoning. There is a need for daycare centers and other things. Even though the impact of another church or institutional use in Valley Trails would be more than housing, the neighborhood has strongly indicated it does not want housing on that vacant property. He encouraged the church to do work on its landscaping. He believed the 113 units reserved for the school site on the Busch property must be kept. If a school is not built, the land is designated for medium density senior housing. He stated that if the School District does not exercise its rights to the property, the city does not automatically get the property. The District would pay 80% of the fair market value at the time it exercised its option. He did not think the city would buy the property for parkland, considering the amount of undeveloped parkland it already has. He favored a reserve of 500 units for future use. This could be used as an incentive for future development. If a development were approved at the midpoint and anything over the midpoint was 50% below market or low income, then the units could come from the reserve to get a better development. He suggested 250 units for the West Dublin BART station project. This is a good place for the units and would provide a good amenity to the city in the form of a parking garage for the BART station. He approved mixed use in the area, but did not want a grocery store. Another advantage of the site is that it is on the 1-680 corridor and would allow residents to get on the freeway without going through city streets and increasing traffic impacts. He suggested 240 units for Staples Ranch. Senior apartments are counted in other parts of town, so they should be counted here. He asked for a comparison of the impacts of the Staples Ranch apartments with the Ironwood senior apartments on Busch. He felt that would be more similar than multi-family residential units in the Hacienda Business Park. He suggested 250 units for the east side. He could see Joint Workshop City CounciVPlanning Commission 17 04/25/06