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Pleasanton to happen and provide a better open space experience for the community. In order to allow this to happen it would require downsizing and making it more conducive with the commercial site. Beyond that, the Council needs to understand the value proposition the Sharks will make which he has not yet reviewed. Councilmember Sullivan also supported a second restroom, likes the idea of the detention basin being more of a natural environment similar to what was done with Kottinger Creek, believes the Fremont Land site should better integrate to a park if the Sharks facility does not work out, if the Sharks facility is approved, the facility will have a huge refrigeration load and power and the City should look at it as a net zero energy facility. He agrees with comments regarding the circulation network and roads. Mayor Hosterman asked for an explanation of the issues surrounding relocating the ice rink facility and it being circulated by some of the retail and parking. City Manager Fialho said the issue is that staff would need collective direction from the Council to proceed in this regard, which would open the door for further discussions with Fremont Land. He said possibly the Sharks facility could be downsized which is one option staff could look into, it might be located somewhere on the site but they have entered into a sales and purchase agreement with the County and the City would need to develop consensus with the County and Fremont Land that this would be a modified or suitable use willing to be explored with the City. The second option would be to move the facility somewhere and reorient the retail center in a manner that allows some combination of retail anchored by the retail site on the public land. If the Council were interested in pursuing this, staff would need to return to the public process as well as bring in Fremont Land and the County for those discussions. This may or may not impact the floor area ratio of retail. Councilmember Cook-Kallio said she thought the workshop process was to discuss placement of the facility, one of the reasons they did not look at moving it eastward was because the area highlighted had some trees and bird watching areas they wanted to preserve. City Manager Fialho said the consultant tried to develop a plan which addressed all needs and interests from what was gathered from the community. He determined that if an open space meadow is proposed, he suggested a location because it complimented the Arroyo and the eastern boundary of the city feathers growth in that direction, as well as facilitates the trail connection. Councilmember Cook-Kallio questioned if those things could be addressed in the PUD process and not in the master plan. She said the entire ice rink facility still needs to be carefully negotiated with the Sharks, and confirmed with the City Manager that the Council really needed to choose a direction. Councilmember Cook-Kallio said she believes there were good discussions in that the noise and the wind did not make it a good place. She likes the trails the way they are in the master plan, supported the second restroom, supported the meadow where it is, likes preservation of the trees, views the public/private partnership as an opportunity, likes the idea of a high school sports team, wants the facility to be affordable for kids, understands there is the possibility that Stoneridge might go through in the future and wants this to stay on the table. She also supports the small and large dog park, and supports staffs recommendation with the addition of the second restroom. Mayor Hosterman said she would like more opportunities for people to exercise their dogs off- leash, and the square footage. Mr. Wolfe said in the original plan, the dog exercise area was much larger. This does not preclude it from being larger in the future, but staff modified it Special Meeting Minutes 7 June 10, 2008