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ATTACHMENT 8 DRAFT PUD- 81- 30- 55M/PUD- 85- 08 -27M. City of Pleasanton Application for a Major Modification to PUD -81 -30 and PUD -85 -08 to address residential development and how it affects the developable square footage in the Hacienda Business Park. Zoning for the property is PUD -I /C -O (Planned Unit Development - Industrial /Commercial- Office), PUD -MU (Planned Unit Development — Mixed Use), and PUD -HDR (Planned Unit Development — High Density Residential) Districts. Commissioner O'Connor advised that he was going to recuse himself from this item because of his financial investments at Hacienda. Mr. Dolan presented the staff report, stating that the proposal, in its essence, is just to exempt the housing sites that had been rezoned earlier in response to the City's past litigation and the Housing Element and fulfilling its obligations under the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), from the total square footage count in Hacienda. He noted that in some ways, it is a very simple concept and does not require very much language change at all to the current proposals; but in other ways, one can get lost in all the mathematics of the numbers. He indicated that all the numbers are included in the staff report but that he is going to stay at a little higher level in his presentation, although he has the fundamental ones that will help the Commission understand the concepts. Total Gross Floor Area within the Project shall not exceed nine million, eight hundred eighty -nine thousand (9,889,000) square feet, excluding residential areas development existing as of August 2013, residential development on the seven sites shown on the attached Exhibit B, child day -care facilities, transit/public service center facilities, and BART stations and related facilities. Mr. Dolan then displayed the particular language with the PUD approvals from Ordinance 1596 that needed to be changed, explaining that it essentially stated that "the total Gross Floor Area within the project shall not exceed 9,889,000 square feet, excluding residential" and just goes on to say "child day care facilities, transit/public service center facilities, and BART stations and related facilities." He indicated that what staff is proposing is to add the development that exists currently in the Park as well as all the sites that have been rezoned to meet our RHNA responsibilities. He noted that a reference is made to an attachment showing the specific sites and displayed the map showing those sites. Mr. Dolan stated that if the language is taken verbatim as it is, an argument could be made that these are already exempt because the language, as written, says that all residential is exempt. He noted, however, that when one looks at that and when it was written, it was impossible then to anticipate all the additional rezoning that has transpired in the last three years. He added that staff felt the right thing to do was to go back and revisit this issue and clarify whether or not that language is going to apply to the new residential. He indicated that this is the question before the Commission tonight. DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 8/28/2013 Page 1 of 11