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City of Pleasanton Joint Workshop of the City Council, Planning Commission and the Hacienda Transit Oriented Development Plan Task Force December 16, 2010 Minutes Concerning Options for the Hacienda Transit Oriented Non -Core Development Standards and Design Guidelines Community Development Director Brian Dolan said this matter will be coming to the City Council in January and February with an adoption requirement date of March 1, 2011, and the update will allow for public comment, response and direction in moving forward in preparation for the hearings. The Task Force began in March with a completion target deadline of 12 months; however, the timeline was affected by the settlement agreement. They held 14 productive meetings, received diverse input, and there are some areas where there is agreement as well as areas requiring more discussion. The group spent time first reviewing the existing regulatory framework in the General Plan and the Hacienda PUD and understanding existing development in Hacienda. A retail demand study was then prepared, a review of past examples of mixed use and Transit - Oriented Development (TOD), and a discussion of key physical issues of the three key sites and their challenges. When presented with the terms of the settlement agreement in the summer, staff was somewhat constrained with the core development standards and the additional timeframe and accelerated dialogue. They invited TOD experts, including Will Fleissig who has been in the field for many years, as well as Rick Williams from Van Meter, Williams and Pollack. During the same time, most of the task force attended a field trip to Pleasant Hill to see the most recent and well known example of TOD and the South Bay to see several older examples in the San Jose area. Various design concepts were then applied and refined to the various sites, concentrating on traffic and school - related impacts, and formulated standards and guidelines, as assisted by Mr. Williams and Fleissig. Materials open for discussion tonight include a vision statement, design standards and guidelines, and graphics. While there are general areas of agreement, some are clearer than others. They hope to take the information tonight, hold another task force meeting in January, work on issues identified at this workshop, and refine the document for the formal hearing process. Mr. Dolan emphasized that the second packet of materials includes graphics and a mechanical testing of the guidelines for the W.P. Carey site. Sample projects were created of how they could be applied to the site and what the resultant project could be. William Kohn Fleissig, TransACT, gave the presentation first thanking members of the Task Force, staff and colleagues for their trust and work to educate and determine best practices in the Bay Area. He noted there are various TOD's which are typically expensive and go on for 2 -3 years to get to an in -depth level of detail. The approach recommended to the Task Force was to give a set of choices to the property owners and a set of direction of intention to the Planning