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BACKGROUND The preparation of an East Pleasanton Specific Plan is called for in the City's General Plan. In May 2012 the City Council approved the formation of an 18-member East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force, which has met five times since August 2012. Following an orientation meeting, the Task Force has focused on learning about the East Pleasanton area with a field trip, discussions of opportunities and constraints, and reports on traffic conditions, an economic and market assessment of the area, and an environmental baseline report. During the last three Task Force meetings, the group has also focused on creating a Working Draft Vision that will be used to guide the preparation of the East Pleasanton Specific Plan. The preparation of the East Pleasanton Specific Plan will generally follow these steps: • Understand existing conditions, opportunities and constraints • Explore economic conditions, development trends and opportunities and constraints • Decide on major objectives or vision • Draft a range of options (land use and circulation plans) for development and conservation • Test options against how they meet objectives (traffic analysis, fiscal analysis, sustainability, etc.) • Revise options and recommend a preferred plan • Complete environmental analysis and adopt a Specific Plan for East Pleasanton The Task Force has made substantial progress on the first three steps in this process and is about to embark on the preparation of a range of alternative plans. City Council input on the Vision statement will help shape the character of the options explored. All meeting and background information is available on the East Pleasanton Specific Plan page of the City's website. Information on area constraints and opportunities, existing traffic conditions, market and economic conditions, an environmental baseline report, and potential future housing needs is available at: http://www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us/business/planning/eastpleasanton/draftdocuments.html DISCUSSION The Draft Vision Statement in Attachment 1 has evolved out of three Task Force meeting discussions (in October, November, and December 2012) and a Community Workshop held on November 29, 2012. The first Task Force dialog took the form of a free-ranging discussion of concepts to be included in the Vision. Staff and consultants subsequently crafted these concepts into a preliminary draft that was further refined by the Task Force at its November meeting for discussion at the Community Meeting. At the Community Workshop, following a short presentation on the planning process, the approximately 40 participants were invited to visit four "idea stations" with topics including Character, Land Use, Circulation, and Open Space/Sustainability. Each station featured image boards that listed brief vision statements and questions to promote discussion. Page 2 of 3