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Commissioner Balch So I apologize—you're updating the zoning and you're saying we're excluding looking at the zoning for this What would be the normal process to kind of bring them in as a whole? Beaudin So cities are approaching this in all different ways, right? So right now it's conscience We've considered it and we're keeping our hands off of it, and you know, the funny but real example is Ruby Hill used as a bridal shower or event center and that was shut down It was problematic in terms of how that home was being used So if there are complaints from residents about things happening like a house being rented out for VRBO, we're getting involved You can go on those websites and you can see the options available in Pleasanton and we've taken a hands-off approach so far and it's been conscious So if it becomes an issue in Pleasanton, I would expect it to come through the City Council work plan and it may even come out of this process if somebody wants to elevate it to that level It does require a lot of study There's a lot of legal time that goes into it and there are cities that are currently collecting hotel tax and trying to work that out It's the larger cities who are doing that and there are a lot of cities who have taken a completely hands-off approach which is what we continue to do Weinstein And just to be clear, we're dealing here primarily with commercial office and industrial districts and the VRBO's and similar shared self-rental type of places are in residential districts Beaudin And I don't know if we said this at the start but we did break this into a number of phases We've got a minimum of three pieces of zoning work to do and this is our first So we'll come back with other modules and pieces of the code as we go We really wanted to hit what we thought were some of the efficiency and really updated pieces of the code first and there's some state law issues we wanted to clean up as well, so that's what we're doing in the first round Commissioner Brown And Mr Hirst pointed out cell sites Is that in here? Beaudin Julie's our expert Harryman It's not We have a separate wireless ordinance altogether so that's what would need to be amended Commissioner Brown Okay, all right I'm just being selfish My cell always drops out on Santa Rita Chair Ritter I concur Commissioner Balch And commercial and event centers as Mr Hirst mentioned, you're probably going to take a look at that? Beaudin We've got Mr Hirst's email and we're going to make sure we address it as we go through the staff report process I think Shweta characterized it correctly You know, we've heard really this is probably the strongest reaction we've had to our original zoning code and the reaction has been there's this fundamental tension between local government regulation, particularly in downtowns, but in general, and property owner EXCERPT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 23 of 25