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synagogue or mosque and that would have a major traffic impact. Any other public use such as a school, hospital, etc. would be bad for the neighborhood. He believed the plan for 25-30 homes was the best for the neighborhood. There would be minimum traffic impact. The church would receive money for improvements to the church, and the city would get a new tax base from the homes. He could not imagine why Valley Trails residents feel their homes would lose value. James Sievers III, 7599 Ironwood Drive, Dublin, member of the Evangelical Free Church, speaking on behalf of the youth who use the church, described the various activities for youth. Selling the property would provide funds to help the church expand and provide more programs for the youth group. Pastor Bob Slack, 6900 Valley Trails, asked Council to reserve 25-30 units from the housing cap for the church property. He commented that the property is zoned R-1-6500, but the General Plan designation is Public and Institutional. He believed that if the designation were changed, it would allow the church to remain at the site and to replace the worn out facility with a new one. The church has never promised a community park or center because that is not within the church's ability to provide. He noted the church has planned a get together for all the Valley Trails residents to meet the developer and architect to work out an acceptable plan of benefit for the community. He also noted in the last four years no public institutional entity has offered a real plan for the property. He urged anyone interested to attend this meeting. Dan Skinner, 2916 Yorkshire Court, believed that Ponderosa Homes could bring the community and church together to get a mutually agreeable plan for the vacant land. He asked for Council support. Dan Lacy, 7241 South Valley Trails Drive, said he has been talking to his neighbors and agreed many don't show up at the meetings, however they are aware of the situation. He believed that a large percentage of the residents do not want housing developed on that church property. Becky Dennis, 838 Gray Fox Circle, spoke as an affordable housing advocate and supported any zoning that would allow the city to meet its needs. She did not think it made sense to reserve 200 units for a future Council to use and felt they should be used now, since the city is already falling short of meeting its needs. She liked the transit-oriented model, but would like to know how the city could get more low-income and very low-income housing. She referred to Column 1 in the dispersed element and said that was the only one of the non-high density elements her group would look at. She felt 136 units are enough to bring infrastructure to the east side where there is no existing infrastructure. She believed that number of units could be assigned to Hacienda Business Park. She wanted 100 units from Column 1 of the transit-oriented developed to be assigned to Pleasanton Gardens and Kottinger Place. She also wanted to take the 350 units from West Dublin BART and give them to Hacienda to improve the potential to provide affordability to the community. Column 2 is not acceptable because it does not meet long term goals for affordable housing. However, she did like the way development impacts were calculated for Staples Ranch. Counting any units in Staples Ranch is problematic as long as one is working under the housing cap. But in the future, if development over the housing cap is considered, that is a good way of approaching a remodeling of the city's fee structure and determining a way to get new infrastructure that would meet a new generation of development beyond the housing cap. In Column 3, she would distribute the reserve units to Hacienda. She felt it needed 1,200 units to proceed and believed it could do an awful lot. She believed that if this Council wanted to do future Councils a favor, it Joint Workshop City CounciVPlanning Commission 3 04/25/06