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• Extensive detailing including gooseneck-style lamps, decorative retaining walls, <br />gas-lamp style walkway fixtures, trellises, roof dormers, awnings, and cupolas <br />are used on all structures. <br />• Significant variation of all building volumes and facades replicating the "main <br />street" appearance of individual store buildings are used on all structures <br />including Home Depot. <br />Building materials and colors include hardiplank horizontal siding - a recognized green <br />building material -painted Navajo beige, eagle slate gray composition roof shingles, <br />light beige cultured stone wainscots, navy blue awnings, and platinum gray stucco/trim <br />detailing. <br />Access and Parking: <br />Two points of vehicular access will be provided to the site from Bernal Avenue, and two <br />points of access will be provided from Stanley Boulevard. As requested by the <br />Congregation Beth Emek, there shall be no public street or emergency vehicle access <br />allowed to the site from Nevada Court. All access driveways and internal circulations <br />areas are designed to City standards. <br />The overall parking ratio will be one parking space per 276 square feet of floor area for <br />a total of 702 parking spaces creating a surplus of 57 parking spaces. Only 70 parking <br />spaces -ten percent of proposed parking -will be compact-size parking spaces. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Items Discussed in the Planning Commission Staff Report <br />The attached Planning Commission staff report contains a detailed analysis with figures <br />and tables on the following issues: Building Design; Grading/Urban Stormwater <br />Runoff; Green Building Measures; Landscape Design; Operations including "Home <br />Depot", "Other Home Depot Locations", and "Longs Drugs"; Pleasanton General Plan; <br />Signage; Site Design including "Site Design", "Future Land Division, Loading Areas", <br />"Parking Lot Light Fixtures", "Shopping Cart Storage Areas", and "Refuse Collection"; <br />Urban Storm Water Runoff; and, Zoning including "Stanley Business Park PUD <br />Development Plan", "PUD Major Modification", and "Hazardous Materials". A summary <br />of the more significant issues raised by this proposal including the Planning <br />Commission`s recommendations on these issues follows. <br />Traffic, Parking, and Off-/On-Site Circulation <br />Traffic has been a major issue with this proposal. To address the traffic impacts and <br />mitigations resulting from the project, a traffic report, "Report for (the) Home Depot <br />Shopping Center Traffic Study," dated July 14, 2006, has been prepared by Dowling <br />Associates. The report analyzed the existing/approved/project scenario. The traffic <br />analysis also included the proposed garden center's square footage and use as a <br />destination location. However, it did not include the approved trips for the California <br />Splash development given that its trips were determined to be primarily off-peak trips, <br />Page 9 of 22 <br />