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Commissioner Balch My only comment to this was just that the traffic at the Amador Safeway and the Pleasanton Gateway Safeway is fun and so I wanted to qualify, and obviously you look at this and I don't know necessarily that 2,000 square feet makes a major traffic impact, but it sure seems like it's awfully darn close Commissioner Allen The concern I have with 60,000 square feet is specific to the C-C District, and I know it's unlikely but at our last meeting we talked about potentially having three types of sizing Theoretically, let's say that the Vic's Shopping Center area—I don't know how many square feet—or some of the new redevelopment we're doing downtown frees up a lot of space, and Safeway wants to come in The thing I'm concerned about is if we actually have City code that says someone could come in up to 60,000 feet without a CUP, just straight permitted in C-C, I'm concerned about that because we have such limited downtown space and I think we want to be very strategic about keeping it pedestrian-scaled and small-scaled, and we know we have a huge traffic challenge downtown Adding a Safeway or Raley's somewhere downtown if something freed up could be a nightmare So I'm concerned with having that allowed in the C-C District Commissioner O'Connor It's downtown but it's separate though, right'? Commissioner Allen C-C is downtown Can you show me on the table'? Maybe I'm misreading this Commissioner Balch Page 30 Commissioner Brown I think they mention this in Table 2 of Exhibit B, Item no 8 as well Commissioner Allen Okay, because I'm looking at page 30 and on page 30 for up to 60,000 feet for C-C it says it's permitted, which would say if Safeway came to us, it would say it's permitted Bonn Your read of what it says is correct A C-C zoned property less than 60,000 square feet would be a permitted use So to address your comment specifically related to downtown there's probably limited spaces that are 60,000 or more square feet If somebody were to demolish an existing shopping center and start brand new, that would also require design review and something like a brand new building downtown would come to the Planning Commission Commissioner Allen So today it comes to us and what we do is we say, was it permitted or not'? We'd look here and say, oh yeah, it's permitted So then it makes it more difficult for us to say, no you can't be here You know, I mean it begs the question Today, we don't have any limit, right'? Correct'? Bonn Correct, there's no square footage threshold Commissioner Allen So therefore if Safeway came in, we're sort of given all kinds of flexibility EXCERPT DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 15 of 30