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To: Pleasanton City Clerk ubject: FW: Comments on Historic Taskforce recommendations at tonights city council meeting --'A 0■!AL. 'r:>vi ei0 io the City Council Aft@ ': stribution of Packet From: Joseph Hernan] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:25 PM Dale To: Lisa Tarnow Subject: Comments on Historic Taskforce recommendations at tonights city council meeting Hello Lisa, I am not able to attend lonights planning meeting due to work and family obligations, but i wanted to provide comments about two items from the Historic Taskforce recomendations that will be presented at tonights city council rneeting: items 4 and 7. I live at 4582 2nd street and have seen my neighborhood negatively impacted by recent projects; the PHA's goals can help prevent such future impact. STORY POLES: I am in favor of requiring this. Information provided on the yellow cards is not adequate to allow neighbors to truly understand how large an addition, new home, etc, will be. In some cases, the height of a proposed addition is portrayed on the yellow card as being much smaller than it actually is when viewed from the street. The use of story poles and mesh will address this roblem. FAR: I also support PHA's position with respect to FAR. Keeping projects to a size that is appropriate for our neighborhood is essential to preserving its character. The trend towards projects that are excessive in size has already had a negative effect. Setting an appropriate FAR will prevent this from happening. Also critical is to only approve variances that have extremely strong justification. FAR variances have been granted on a seemingly routine basis, creating the exact overly-large projects that FAR was created to prevent. I appreciate your time and having my comments included in tonights meeting. Sincerely, Joseph Hernan Click here to report this email as spam. 1