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ALAMEDA:The only reason I mentioned is that I€m an educator and right now we€re <br />struggling with preschools. Half of our youngsters enter kindergarten without any preschool <br />experience, so I just thought that would be a- a nice addition but anyway -. <br />FUKE:That was- that was the motivation behind making that part and parcel of <br />the application. <br />GALDONES:Commissioner Graham. <br />GRAHAM:Sidney one other issue. Since this is urban land at the State classification <br />level- did you all give any thought to do a rezoning here in the County to a land use other than <br />agricultural, whereby you might not have to go through these permit requests but it would be <br />more in line with in fact the existing zoning? <br />FUKE:Wellinmy,Ms.GiffincancorrectmeifI€mwrong,butinmyearlier <br />discussions with the members of the Trust, you know, they had asked me to look at what the <br />Land Use designations were on the General Plan, as well as the State Land Use and the zoning. <br />And the problem- and looking at the water consideration and the possibility of having this <br />property be more land use intensified and the General Plan- as your background report calls for <br />like a medium density and I guess like consistent with the Director Yuen€s interest about having <br />more development in town as opposed to like having it sprawled out and scattered, you know, <br />throughout the rest of the Community, this really would fall within that notion about having <br />development compact and right within the town core. And so, in pursuant to that, you know, if <br />all things fail, then one other option would be to try to have the property rezoned to a zoning that <br />would commensurate with the surrounding area, which would either be like RS-7.5 or RS-10. <br />You know, that is like another option. The other thing is that the existing warehouse use has <br />been- has had like a historical warehouse use since 1942 which was built by Parker- Parker <br />Ranch for the military and has been like a continuous unbroken use for some sort of a industrial <br />or warehouse use- more recently warehouse activity. The Trust has been reluctant in utilizing <br />extensively that facility because they would rather be more in the so- called educational business <br />rather than being in the warehouse business. But if push comes to shove and that€s the only way <br />they can generate funds, then that€s the avenue that they, you know, would be unfortunately <br />forced into having to take because they need to generate revenues to support all of its activities <br />as a non-profit organization. <br />GRAHAM:Thank you. <br />YUEN:I should mention as far as a rezone to allow a school, unfortunately the <br />only zoning where you can just do a private school is a commercial zone. So, if you rezoned to <br />residential, for example, you would still need a use permit to do a school. <br />GALDONES:Any further questions of Mr. Fuke or Ms. Giffin? Commissioner <br />Springer. <br />SPRINGER:For either of the applicant€s representatives, there seems to be a concern <br />about traffic. And could you discuss with us any mitigative measures that you have intended. <br />6 <br /> <br />