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The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers - Ayaia, Campbell, Dennis, Michelotti, and Mayor Pico NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Ms. Dennis said this was an adorable gas station and felt the residents will like it a lot and feel it has always belonged there. Ms. Ayala felt a gas station has always been needed at this part of town and thanked the developers for responding to everyone's wishes. Ms. Michelotti also thanked them for making improvements to the project pursuant to suggestions and complimented the developers on the final plan. Item 6a Approval of an adjustment to the City's Lower-Income Housing Fee (SR 02:117) Steven Bocian presented the staff report. Ms. Dennis had questions about the methodology and of how we can attain our General Plan goals regarding the different categories of housing. She felt the City had done a good job so far with the exception of very low income. The report states that staff felt when the fee was first formulated the biggest gap would be in the median income homes. She felt that is becoming less and less the case. As the supply of those homes is created, she felt the market was helping in that area, but the City is still struggling with how to help the very low income needs. She asked why the commercial/office/industrial (COI) uses had not been considered as opposed to the high end residential. She felt as the city approaches build out, there will be fewer and fewer of those home to pay the fee. Because of the housing cap, in order to meet the percentages of total housing stock, the city still needs to look at how the fees can give incentives for commercial builders to be more active participants in providing that infrastructure. She did not think the high end housing was creating the need for lower income housing. She also did not think the people paying those fees would get the benefit of their investment in the same way a business would. If the methodology is changed, she preferred to change it towards commercial developers. There is a finite amount of housing and she did not want to have to go back to the voters to increase the housing cap in order to meet lower end housing needs. Whatever methodology is selected, she wanted it to recognize the fact that as the supply of multi-family housing increases, and that we should direct the lower income housing fee, particularly to dealing with this portion of our housing supply that requires that we are saying that we are going to get 25% of a contribution. Those are the more affordable housing where we are applying for government grants and tax credits and are trying to find the extra money. She did not think we had to worry about the median any more. She did not see that alternative described in the staff report. Pleasanton City Council 27 09/03/02 Minutes