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BACKGROUND Since March of this year, a 21- member Hacienda Task Force has been meeting to discuss the appropriate form and design of residential or mixed use Transit Oriented Development (TOD) on three vacant sites near the Dublin /Pleasanton BART station in Hacienda, owned by W.P. Cary, BRE, and Roche. The outcome of this work will be a set of recommendations to the City Council for standards and guidelines by which future projects on these sites will be evaluated. At the time the Task Force was established, it was anticipated that its work would be completed in approximately a year to 18 months. In August 2010, the City Council reached a Settlement Agreement with the plaintiffs in Urban Habitat v. City of Pleasanton, a lawsuit that claimed that various City policies and ordinances prevented or hindered the development of affordable housing. Part of that Settlement Agreement requires the adoption of two types of development standards for the three vacant parcels near the BART station in Hacienda Business Park: • Core Development Standards including a minimum density of 30 units per acre for residential development, a minimum of 130 residential units affordable to very-low income households, the acceptance of Section 8 Rental Vouchers, a specific bedroom mix for the affordable units, and units to be dispersed throughout the development. These standards must be approved no later than January 4, 2011. • Non -Core Development Standards and Design Guidelines that are not inconsistent with the Core Development Standards described above (i.e. would not make those standards infeasible). These are standards such as building height, Floor Area Ratio, street setbacks, and parking ratios (which would generally be stated as a numeric standard) and guidelines which may be more subjective and less measurable (e.g. the requirement for "high quality building materials "). These standards must be adopted no later than March 1, 2011. Staff is seeking assistance in preparing the "non- core" development standards and guidelines. As well as meeting the requirements of the Settlement Agreement, these standards and guidelines must meet the objective of creating a high quality living and working environment, be comprehensive and easily understandable, and be economically viable. Clear and understandable graphics will be needed to illustrate the type of development desired. Although City planning staff will be involved in and directing all aspects of preparing the standards, because of the amount of work stemming from the Settlement Agreement, the specialized nature of the skills required to prepare the standards and guidelines, and the strict deadlines imposed by the agreement, staff believes consultant assistance is needed to ensure timely completion of this project. CONSULTANT SELECTION In order to meet the deadline set by the Settlement Agreement and because of the need to select a consultant with expertise and experience both as a TOD developer and Page 2 of 3