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Councilmember Brown asked if the City receives noise complaints regarding the airport with the current APA. Ms. Stern reported that there were approximately 472 total complaints between Pleasanton and Livermore in 2012. Of the 366 complaints originating from Pleasanton, 349 were generated by one household. 10 other complaints were generated by one additional household and the remaining 7 were citywide. Mayor Thorne opened the public hearing. Kelly Cousins reported a significant increase in the presence of larger planes and anticipated that airport noise would only worsen. She shared her concern over the potential for residential development in this area and commended the Planning Commission for its recommendation. She asked that the Council take a careful look at this area in terms of future density. Valerie Arkin said she too had issues with airport noise. She also commended the Commission on eliminating the modification proposed by staff and said she had particular concerns over children's safety if a school were ever to be developed in the area. Barbara Blisserd said she is a former member of both the Pleasanton Noise Commission and the Livermore Airport Master Plan Committee as well as a pilot. She commended the City on its current recommendation and said it is very important to pilots that they have a buffer zone within which to safely land in an emergency. She said she hoped the East Pleasanton Specific Plan would call for nothing of significant density within this area either. She acknowledged that while some residents refuse to accept it, testing has proven that the noise pollution from the airport falls within acceptable standards. Mayor Thorne closed the public hearing. Mayor Thorne said he supported the recommendations of the Planning Commission. He also said that while he hates the idea of giving up any measure of local control, airport safety is a serious matter and he would support staff's recommendation. Councilmember Brown said it was very concerning to think that the City could look at developing residential housing in Zone 4. She referred to page 3 of staff's recommendation, which states that "No City of Pleasanton residential land use designation are located within the APA." While this is true at present, she said a General Plan amendment should look to the future and amended her second to include the request that "are" be replaced with "shall be." Councilmember Pentin said he was satisfied with the wording as presented by staff. In making the motion, they are acknowleding how things are structured today but also that the Council reserves the future right to decide what happens in those areas. To state today that something in the future shall not be is language that he cannot accept. Vice-Mayor Cook-Kallio concurred but noted that it would be grammatically correct to say "is" rather than "are". She also noted that if read without the stricken language and with the grammatical correction, the syntax would not be correct with "shall." City Manager Fialho confirmed that this is simply a statement of the fact that no housing exists within the APA. MOTION: It was m/s by Pentin/Brown to wavied full reading and adopt Resolution No. 13-594 approving a City-initiated General Plan Amendment related to the Alameda Counl:y Updated Livermore Municipal Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan, as filed under Case P12-1778. . Motion passed by the following vote: City Council Minutes Page 5 of 9 February 5, 2013