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ATTACHMENT 6 UP- 77 -13, Pleasanton Masonic Center Consideration of retention, modification, or revocation of a Conditional Use Permit for the operation of the Pleasanton Masonic Center located at 3370 Hopyard Road. Zoning for the property is RM -2,500 (Multiple - Family Residential) District. Jenny Soo presented the staff report and described the scope, layout and key elements of the proposal. Commissioner Nagler: Maybe to start at the end first and the idea that assuming we do adopt something that it has no precedential impact on a subsequent use permit for potentially a new owner and whether or not that actually is so. I ask my fellow Commissioners whether it's reasonable to think that after having come through this conversation and we see it really not as a function of the Masons as much as what should be allowed in this building and this neighborhood relative to these neighbors, whether we would completely revisit the question and come up with a different conclusion for a different applicant a month from now. I ask that question to start because I think it's pretty germane about what should be our interest or willingness to get into the depths of this conversation this evening. Commissioner O'Connor: I think it would be very difficult to make a change with the same building, same location, and same type of impacts. Commissioner Allen: And I do as well. The principles that I'm applying here would be the same principles I would be thinking about for another application. Chair Ritter: I concur; the only thing that I would caution us on is what conditions would come at the time the building sells. So it might be six weeks. It might be six months. We don't know if they're going to close or not so that's why it's probably good to do something now. Commissioner Balch: Well, I was taking the stance that staff knows I've been pretty adamant about getting this back because I think it should be addressed on the merits on which it's coming back and I'd love you to predict future, but I don't know if it will close and I don't know what it would be so I'II take what I have today and hear it. Chair Ritter: Okay, so any direction or questions for staff? Commissioner Nagler: I do, but I wanted to start with that because I think that's pretty germane to this conversation and just to say, having been the one that posed the question, I actually don't think we're going to be able to separate the logic of one discussion from the other. As Commissioner Balch is saying, then the question is, should we apply something- whatever it is -for a two -week, four -week, six -month period and know that it's just for a temporary period. Commissioner Balch: Could I go a different way maybe and if I may grab your conversation line? One of my questions for staff would be if we were rebuilding a building like this in a buffer zoned use within a residential neighborhood, are the conditions that you're suggesting similar to ones you would apply anew? I know it's obviously a very tricky question. Pleasanton doesn't have the issue so much right now EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2016 Page 1 of 52