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Councilmember Brown thanked the City Attorney and commented to the City Manager that when she looked it up she believes that the Council action on November 2012 was to provide guidance so that the Planning Commission could work on a Municipal Code amendment and come back to the Council, and that's why there was not two readings of the ordinance and that was correct. She thanked the community for coming and voicing their opinions and for getting involved and speaking up for their neighborhoods. She holds that dearer to her than anything else, your neighborhood, your community, your quality of life, you need to stand up for it and come to these meetings and speak. Motion: It was m/s by Narum/Thorne to waive first reading and introduced Ordinance No. 2133 approving a Planned Unit Development (PUD) Rezoning and Development Plan approval to construct 48 single-family, two story homes and related improvements on the approximately 194.7-acre Lund Ranch II property located at 1500 Lund Ranch Road at the end of Lund Ranch Road as recommended and amended as follows: (1) modify the proposed site plan to reflect the site plan presented by the applicant at the December 1, 2015 City Council meeting consisting of 48 units: 29 units accessed by Sunset Creek, and 19 units accessed by Lund Ranch Road; (2) Circulation between the two neighborhoods shall be permanently (in perpetuity) separated, with through access available only to pedestrians, bicycles and emergency vehicles. The applicant shall work with City staff on a suitable physical barrier, beyond just bollards, to ensure it appears permanent, and is nicely landscaped and attractive; (3) The applicant shall work with City staff to locate the road connection to Sunset Creek Lane to the least environmentally significant alignment and to minimize grading to greatest extent possible. In this case, relative to the requirements of Measure PP, the City Council considers this road to be infrastructure and not a structure; (4) Ensure that all housing structures are outside the 100' foot vertical setback line. On the southwest edge of the site, the vertical setback shall be measured from a ridge that ends at the 580' elevation, as originally mapped; (5) If the City Council's interpretation of Measure PP or project approval is successfully challenged legally, the entire project approval (including this motion) is considered null and void, and must return to the Planning Commission and City Council for further consideration consistent with the terms of the Development Agreement; and (6) Growth management allocations for the project shall be over two consecutive years (2016 and 2017), adopted Resolution No. 15-809 approving the Affordable Housing Agreement; waived first reading and introduced Ordinance No. 2134 approving the Development Agreement to vest entitlements for the project; adopted Resolution No. 15-810 certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) prepared for the project, adopted Resolution No. 15-811 approving the CEQA Findings and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and adopted Resolution No. 15-812 approving the Growth Management Agreement with allocations for the project being over two consecutive years, 2016 and 2017. Motion passed by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmembers Narum, Olson, Mayor Thorne Noes: Councilmember Brown Absent: Councilmember Pentin MOTION: It was m/s by Olson/Narum to direct staff to work with neighbors in the Junipero and Independence neighborhoods on traffic calming solutions and specifically explore restrictions on AM/PM peak cut-through traffic at the intersection of Bernal and Independence; direct staff to work with the County of Alameda to explore elimination of the Happy Valley bypass road in coordination with the comprehensive annexation of all or parts of the Happy Valley area; direct staff to add to the City Council work plan the mapping of ridges in southeast hills within one year's timeframe for review and consideration by the City Council. Councilmember Olson noted that this idea has been floated around for a while and has not been done. He believes we need to define the universe and need to define where the ridges are and where they are not. He noted the traffic calming that was discussed several years ago on Junipero and that it was clear this task was something that could be started right away and did not have to wait until the Lund Ranch II project began. City Council Minutes Page 13 of 16 December 1, 2015