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One thing I would like to mention that Commissioner Brown brought up about the time The two categories of people that are not being considered in those comments are the property owners and the businesses that want to locate It may not seem like much time to somebody at the City if they have to wait 60-90 days to find out whether or not a business can locate, but if you own a vacant property on Quarry Lane or you're a machine shop trying to lease that property on Quarry Lane and you have to wait 45 days, that makes a big difference A classic example in Pleasanton is the Kolln Hardware Building It came within less than three hours of being foreclosed on by a bank because they didn't have a tenant Fortunately, Community Bank stepped up, made them the loan and time went on and they could sign the loan with the bank And speaking of banks, I would like to just mention to you that when you see a lot of banks in town, do you know what that means? There's a lot of money There's a lot of money I was in downtown Lodi one time and I couldn't figure out how many banks there were I did a little community research and I found out why there were so many banks in downtown Lodi There was a lot of money there Okay, having said all of that, I'm not taking up all of my 5 minutes which I appreciate I would like to, and I think that all of you probably have gotten the email that I sent in and just to paraphrase a couple of things, I would like to encourage you not to delete the LI professional district Maybe you could do some consolidating into IP, but the reason—I think there are a couple of LI districts now, one on Sonoma Drive and one on Old Santa Rita Road I think those are both LI well, Santa Rita might be IG, but IP is an industrial park When you're dealing in LI, you're usually dealing with one or two parcels of P Y 9 Y Y 9 P property and it frankly is kind of ludicrous to do a landscape plan with botanical names for a machine shop and that's what's been happening So anything you could do to speed up the process would be good, and I would encourage you to make cell sites permitted uses in all of the commercial and office districts Julie Harryman did a cell site ordinance and brought us into compliance with federal law and I can assure you that there's going to be a lot more cell sites in the coming years We're just scratching the surface Data transfer is the elephant in the room There's going to be more and more of P 9 it There's going to be more and more cell sites that are going to be camouflaged Flagpoles look a lot better than the fake trees, and things are going to get better, so I encourage you to do that and I would encourage you to find some appropriate districts for conference centers and event centers There's going to be more of those And I'll close with one final prediction 1-580/1-680 is going to change the face of this city more in the next 20 years than it has in the last 50 years That's my prediction Thank you very much for your time Commissioner Nagler May I ask a question of him? Mr Hirst? Hirst You can call me Brad I'm still for 3-story parking in the civic center Commissioner Nagler I know We fought that battle We did well on that one, thank you very much So on your table or comments of the table, are there any particular ones here that rise to a higher level of importance for you that you want to highlight? Hirst I'd like to defer answering that question at the moment I'm sure if I sat down and gave it some thought I'd come up with some In fairness to staff, they just got those the EXCERPT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 10 of 25