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ATTACHMENT 7 <br /> DRAFT <br /> P13-2446, P13-2447, and P13-2448, City of Pleasanton <br /> Consider amendments to the General Plan, Downtown Specific Plan, Downtown <br /> Design Guidelines, and Municipal Code relating to historic preservation, residential <br /> design, story pole requirements, and demolition by neglect within the Downtown <br /> Specific Plan Area. <br /> O'Connor recused himself, indicating that he owns property in the Downtown. <br /> Commissioner Posson joined the other Commissioners on the dais. <br /> Brian Dolan presented the staff report and stated that after a very long and interesting <br /> process, staff is bringing forward the recommendations of the Historic Preservation Task <br /> Force. He then made a brief presentation of the history of the Task Force. <br /> Mr. Dolan stated that the Task Force was created in October of 2011 by the City Council <br /> and consisted of seven members, two of which were Planning Commissioners and five <br /> were at-large members selected by each Councilmember. He indicated that the primary <br /> focus of the Task Force was to review the City's current preservation policies, guidelines, <br /> and processes, pointing out that there were two points of emphasis: (1) to see if some of <br /> the "brain damage" from the previous processes and projects that had been evaluated <br /> through the existing procedures could be eliminated; and (2) to explore whether or not the <br /> historic resources in town were actually being protected enough. <br /> Mr. Dolan stated that the Task Force met twelve times, held a public workshop and four <br /> outreach meetings, and had "check-ins" with both the Planning Commission and the City <br /> Council. He indicated that when the Task Force had formed a tentative plan or path <br /> forward, it went back to the City Council and brought forward several issues: <br /> 1. The Task Force spent a fair amount of time talking about the potential creation of a <br /> local historic district, but the Council did not believe that was something it could <br /> support. <br /> 2. The Task Force explored whether or not the City should be pursuing local standards <br /> and something different than what the criteria currently are for determining a historic <br /> structure or property, and there was no support for that; one Councilmember said <br /> that she would be interested in more information. He stated that ultimately, the Task <br /> Force, with one minor exception, took that feedback from the Council and did not <br /> recommend the creation of additional local standards. <br /> 3. The HFTP proposed the creation of a definition of demolition. The City was <br /> operating in a kind of vacuum in this regard which came up time after time in various <br /> projects. The Council was supportive of that and actually selected one of the <br /> options that was presented at the check-in. Based on some of the public input at <br /> one of the more recent meetings, the Task Force has subsequently made some <br /> minor amendments to that, but staff believes those are going to be acceptable to the <br /> Council. <br /> DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 11/13/2013 Page 1 of 28 <br />
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