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Chairperson Fox noted that Commissioner O’Connor did not have any comments on those points. In response to an inquiry by Commissioner Pearce’s inquiry about the standards for parking ratios, Mr. Paxson noted that there were two different parking standards within the park dependent on whether they were built prior to or after 1993. This project was built before 1993 and held to the parking standard of 1:250 space to square footage ratio; every project since 1993 has been parked at a 3.33:1,000 ratio. They had found the 1:250 ratio to be more than adequate because the office densities have not gone as high as 250 square feet per person. They would be very comfortable in looking at a parking requirement of 3.33:1,000 ratio for the office, possibly even less when taking the transit orientation into account. He noted that they had a free shuttle bus to the BART station with a high percentage of users. Is the amount of parking acceptable? Commissioner Pearce noted that since the parking exceeds the parking ordinance requirement, and since Hacienda Business Park was comfortable with the numbers, she was comfortable with it. She did have concerns about reducing the parking for the hotel. Commissioner Blank believed the amount for parking was acceptable and was comfortable with the reduction for retail. He was less concerned about the parking for the hotel because it was not uncommon for groups coming in from out of town to have one rental car. Chairperson Fox noted that Commissioner O’Connor did not comment on the amount of parking but that the amount of retail parking should not be reduced. Chairperson Fox believed the parking could be consolidated and would rather see fewer parking garages that were taller. She noted that when she drove through Hacienda Business Park, she rarely saw a full parking lot, and requested observations from Mr. Paxson. Mr. Paxson concurred that was the case and noted that the Park has peak-hour traffic spread throughout the Park during the day, which meant that drivers did not all come in at 8:00 a.m. and leave at 5:00 p.m. He noted that created a distribution of the demand on parking within the projects. He noted that they examined office densities in the park, which were much less dense than many other office environments; he acknowledged that they over-planned for parking. He had observed higher use of transit. Chairperson Fox noted that she would like to see a lot of parking spaces reduced if the utilization would be 40 percent at peak. She wanted to ensure the project was not overbuilt with respect to parking. Commissioner Olson agreed with Commissioner Blank’s comments regarding parking for the hotel and that he was in favor of reducing the overall amount of parking. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES May 30, 2007 Page 16 of 20