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the 3rd highest of all properties being considered for rezone, at the end of the Housing Element update process, we were not included because Council did not want to rezone a property that was identified in the General Plan as needing a Specific Plan. This brings us here today after eighteen months of participation in the Housing Element update and now another almost two years into the Specific Plan planning process. The chronology of our land use activities is included in more detail in Exhibit A. Naturally, we feel very strongly that the Specific Plan process should continue forward with the goal to create a plan that will allow the completion of the transportation and other infrastructure needed based on a land use plan that reflects the character of Pleasanton and develop a financial plan to allow the implementation of this vision. The proposed preferred plan does a good job of incorporating many of the comments from the various commissions, City Council, the public, and the Task Force. It is a plan created by thoughtful proactive planning. The current studies being undertaken for the DEIR are critical to determining the constraints and costs of developing the plan area. This information and the guidelines contained in the Specific Plan are needed to deterrnine the viability of providing the numerous public infrastructure and amenities being proposed for the area. This is a long process and stopping or slowing it down due to a change in RHNA requirements is not appropriate. The plan area will create a well-designed mixed-use project that will provide a variety of housing choices to current and future residents consisting of neighborhoods connected with walking trails that lead to parks, trails, shopping, and work places. Pleasanton is in need of the housing choices being proposed in the Plan. Continuing with the process will likely produce a final Specific Plan near the end of this year or first quarter of 2015. The actual implementation of the plan will take much longer. Portions of the area need to be annexed and require significant off-site infrastructure to begin. This is long range planning, not the approval of a near term development and the timetable to overall build-out will be several years. The current specific plans in town support this fact. Below are some of the plans, the date of approval, time since approval and you can see none of them are completely built-out yet. Years Since Specific Plan Approved Approval Complete? North Sycamore June 1992 22 years NO Happy Valley June 1998 16 years NO Vineyard June 1999 15 years NO Bernal August 2000 14 years NO The current Preferred Plan being studied in the Draft Environmental Impact Report is certainly not based on RHNA numbers as it only contains 35% of the units at 23 DUA or greater. It represents a balanced mix of housing, parks, retail, commercial KIEWIT INFRASTRURE CO. Kiewit Plaza,Omaha,NE 68131 (402)342-2052 (402)271-2830 FAX 2