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DRAFT Task Force members, and a similar explanation was provided to them. Most of the members went along, some of them reluctantly because they were afraid of the larger alternatives. The City Council understands that issue and, in fact, at the last check in, during the conversation on how big of an alternative the Commission would be comfortable with, the Council basically provided direction then to include one at the higher end because the Council knew that the Commission could always knock it down and would have evaluated a worst-case alternative. • Once the EIR evaluation starts with the selected consultants, the Task Force will move on to set the land use and circulation component aside and start talking about development standards. The Task Force will prepare some of those documents that are very similar to the Housing Sites Development Standards and Design Guidelines that some of the Commissions have seen before in more recent planning processes. The Task Force will most likely borrow heavily from those since it has currently had a dialogue on what should certain types of development look like, what should the setbacks be, and what should the parking requirements be. • The Draft EIR and the Draft Specific Plan is projected to be done in the first quarter of next year, at which point it will start going through the regular public review process. Mr. Dolan stated that he would be happy to answer more questions and anticipates that some of them would be particularly on this idea of a Preferred Plan and what it means tonight. He indicated that he has spoken to a few of the Commissioners who have expressed concerns about that. He stated that he would be happy to get into it a little bit more deeply, but for the time being, he would like Wayne Rasmussen. Project Consultant, to run through the final Alternatives, starting with what the Task Force labeled the "Preferred Plan." He added that the Commission will hopefully be able to discuss these and come up with a recommendation to the City Council as to whether or not it agrees with the Task Force's recommendation on the Preferred Plan or if it has something different that it would like to recommend to the City Council. Wayne Rasmussen displayed a site map, noting that the planning area is 1,110 acres located just to the north of Stanley Blvd and to the east of Valley Avenue, with the 1-580 freeway to the north and El Charro Road extending down from top end of the plan area to Stanley Blvd. at the bottom. Mr. Rasmussen then presented a slide of the Preferred Plan. He stated that this Plan calls for a total of 1,759 housing units and proposes a mix of 65-percent single-family and 35-percent multi-family housing. He noted that this Plan is similar in many ways to the Alternatives that was presented to the Commission a couple of months ago, as are the other Alternatives. He indicated that some aspects of the site are pretty much fixed as far as the lake area, for example; 704 acres of the site consists of Zone 7 Water Agency or lake areas, two of which Lake I and Cope Lake are owned by Zone 7 Water DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 9/25/2013 Page 3 of 28