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. . ' . the concern regarding "the urban versus suburban feel of this village. Whether to have more cars or more pedestrian traffic... another issue was open space. Instead of having a lot of secondary recreation areas on the site, the Directors and the Planning Commission - pushed for a centralized open space, a focal point to this project." Mr. Tang pointed out that newly designed area on the slides. He described the changes to the gateways at the corner plazas of the project, and the parking arrangements. Mr. Tang said other concerns, retail on El Camino Real, historic buildings, and a Child Care Facility on site, were still being considered. He described the strong support for inclusion of a Child Care Facility by several Directors at the last meeting. Mr. Tang said discussions are in progress relating to the property across Maple Street at the corner of Lathrop, with a possibility of creating a community park on that site. He said they were trying to create a friendlier front door coming out of Franklin Street onto Maple. Mr. Tang showed slides of the newly designed site plan and how they had responded to the Director's concerns listed above. He said there were still 500 units planned and showed where apartments and townhomes would be located. Mr. Tang showed how the new design created more usable open space, fewer streets, with two cul-de-sacs. At 10:59 p.m. MIS: LEIPZIG/HARTNETT TO EXTEND THE MEETING TO 11:15 P.M. CARRIED BY UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE MINUTE ORDER 98-015RD - Mr. Tang said they responded to Director concerns about open space by creating "a focal point in the middle of the project where all three products would look into a community park. As an extension of that community park there will be a series of green belts that go through the project as well as to the tracks, where you have a path condition that takes you all the way from (Maple) along the edge of the track around the landscape easement of the City and out onto Jefferson, so you have pedestrian traffic across to Sequoia Station." He said they had also created more landscaping on the apartment side, adjacent to Maple Street. He showed several slides of the community park, landscaping and greenbelts. Mr. Tang showed slides of the proposed buildings, auto courts which will have interlocking pavers and be pedestrian friendly. He said they had taken the architectural features of the City Hall, the Library and different elements around and incorporated them into their design to "create a sense of historic continuum." He pointed out the porches, stoops and balconies that look out onto the greenbelts and described the diversity in massing and scale they had designed. Mr. Tang described the podium garages with landscaping plazas, character elevations, retail ground floor units on El Camino with residential units above, variations in roof lines, other architectural features including signage, entry points, and major pedestrian access onto Franklin Street. - SPECIAL REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO.1 May 18, 1998 MINUTES Page No. 472 PAGE 3