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Mr. Dolan stated that the Commissioners may want to decide on the three options first as the Commission does not yet have an agreement on the basic vote. Chair Allen inquired it the Commission could do it in two parts then: have a basic vote on the options first and if it passes, add the conditions as a second vote with any additional conditions or modifications. Mr. Dolan replied that the Commission can do whatever it wishes. He added that the Commissioners and everyone in the room should probably know what happens if there is a 2 -2 vote. He indicated that Ms. Harryman can address that. Ms. Harryman stated that the Commissioner's Handbook actually contemplates a 2 -2 vote when there is an absence, and Commissioner Ritter is absent tonight. She indicated that if there is a 2 -2 vote, a tie vote on a motion shall be carried forward to the next meeting at which all Commissioners are present. She stated that she does not know the Commissioners' schedules and it everyone is available for the next meeting. Mr. Dolan noted that there will not be a full Commission until August. Commissioner Piper asked Commissioner Balch if he wanted to share his thoughts on where he stands. Commissioner Balch stated that he is debating the question of what the community wants, that there are 20 years of PUD precedence saying the road was going over the hill, and an abrupt course correction by the voters through a ballot amendment process possibly corrected too far. He added that the difficulty is how to equip himself into the status of all of the voters, and if he is qualified to do that. Commissioner Nagler stated that his 6th grade teacher asked him a really good question: When you're elected to Congress, is your job always to vote the will of the majority of your district or is your job to try to interpret to the best of your ability what is best for your district? Commissioner Balch replied that his answer would change based upon what he would like the outcome to be if he were a United States Congressman. He stated that he thought he was going to be an excellent umpire in the Little League, and he turned out to be the worst and should never have tried to umpire. He stated that he worries in general about Initiative -based legislated processes because he believes voters are told something before leading up to the vote: This is going to save the hills and there will be nothing ever built, and the voter will take what that solicitor says to them maybe a little bit of too much on face value, and the next thing is that on paragraph 30 or page 6, there is something that was not intended, and the pendulum swings a little too far and it kind of rudders back out to the middle over time. Commissioner Balch stated that he worries that Measures PP and QQ interpreted too rigidly would do that to Pleasanton, and he thinks that he has to believe in some regard that 20 years of precedent that this is going over the hill is a fairly consistent rudder that he has adapted to, and now he is asking how he gets there with his interpretation of what a structure is, and in terms of what he thinks, how he can say the vote was too far PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 24, 2015 Page 41 of 54