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that they make use of everything they can and noted that they are trying to convert grease to bio fuel for their trucks. He stated that they are one of the original members of the U.S. Green Building Council since 2004 and that they build their current prototype to a Silver LEED rating. Mr. Reuter stated that Safeway is a community partner based in Pleasanton and has over 3,600 employees at their headquarters. He indicated that their new shopping center employs about 350 full and part time employees and that the project proposed is about a $40 million project. He added that they donate to a variety of about 75 community organizations. Commissioner Blank stated that in the summary that Mr. Pavan provided, the Commission spent a lot of time discussing what the freeway off-ramp would look like. He indicated that he was a little surprised with the 5 year view. He stated that the sense of the Commission was that when people came off of the freeway, the Commission did not want it to look like a truck stop. He added that he was surprised about the vegetation in the video rendering, which was almost non-existent, and he felt there were huge gaps in it. He said when making the turn off of the freeway, the site is astonishing beautiful in the renderings, but the ride down the freeway off-ramp does not look very good and he wondered if additional landscaping was needed. Mr. Rodrigues stated that the video is not as current as the simulation. He indicated that it was shot last week and that Safeway could not be seen when riding down the off-ramp. Commissioner Blank stated that assuming CalTrans comes in five years from now and wants to widen the freeway and removes the landscaping, Safeway will be visible. Mr. Rodrigues explained that there is also groundcover, shrubbery, and tree growth, in addition to an entire layer of trees which his rendering shows from the back of the Safeway and does not include any of the CalTrans cover. Commissioner Blank stated that the Commission wants to have it massed assuming there is no CalTrans cover because CalTrans could remove that. Mr. Rodrigues stated that there will be shrubbery growing high as shown in the landscape plan. Commissioner Blank stated that he think it needs more filling in. Mr. Rodrigues reiterated that the rendering does not include the CalTrans overlay. He stated that CalTrans could eliminate all of the landscaping within five to ten years, and there would be trees or shrubbery that Safeway would have maintained it so it does not go into the right-of-way. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 25, 2010 Page 33 of 38