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that was in place, servicing the BART station itself. He noted there was considerable infrastructure work to be done. Commissioner Fox noted that Mr. Heffner had not directly addressed her question and asked once more whether, if CalTrans took the spaces, it would be technically feasible to go underneath the buildings to be constructed and put one or two levels of parking under the building after the fact. Mr. Tang replied that it would not be feasible to dig under the existing building and that one of the mitigations was to put parking underneath the portion of the freeway so there would not be a net loss of parking. Commissioner Pearce inquired whether they anticipated making any arrangement with Stoneridge Mall for use of its parking lot in that event. Mr. Heffner replied that they did not anticipate that situation. Commissioner Narum stated that she believed the "elephant in the room" was the parking and suggested that if everything went as planned, there was still not enough parking. She inquired what the contingency plan would be in that event. She recalled the Dublin situation where the residents complained that there was not enough parking. She noted that the numbers looked good but that the result did not meet the demands. Commissioner Narum asked what their plan would be in the absolute worst-case scenario. Mr. Heffner noted that the mechanical parking would be the mitigating factor if more parking would be needed. He stated that they would install that equipment on the surface parking lot up against the freeway and that it would be the worst-case scenario. He stated that they would have professional property management on-site with the managers living on-site 24/7 and that there will be 24/7 security. He noted that the managers would be aware of what the parking impacts would be at all times, which would be valuable information if CalTrans ever took over the right- of-way. He noted that they would use mechanical parking if there were too many cars and that a two-bedroom unit would not automatically get two spaces for their cars. He noted that the tandem spaces would always be assigned to the same unit and that the parking would be unbundled from the rent. He added that if a resident had three cars, the resident would pay three times the parking space fee than the resident with one car. He noted that they were trying hard to discourage the use of the car and encourage the use of mass transit. He added that they were discussing the possibility of exploring the Flex Car program. In response to an inquiry by Commissioner Narum regarding whether the permitted retail uses had been shown to mall management and whether they have any input with respect to competition, Mr. Otto noted that staff had not shown the list to the mall. Mr. Heffner noted that they had been in touch with the mall and had explained their retail uses on the site. He noted that the specific list of uses had just been received, and no discussion on it has taken place. He added that the urban grocery concept had been discussed and that they were in favor of it. Commissioner O'Connor noted that staff's memo detailed the proposed changes to the conditions of approval and noted that some had been eliminated. He inquired how committed staff was to the eliminations and noted that they had discussed ensuring that a grocery store be PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 23, 2008 Page 17 of 28