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Chair Blank stated that his sense from what Mr. Dolan is saying is that if something is already being worked on, it would not be additive for the Commission to say "Yes, keep doing that" but that the Commission should come up with something that is not on this list. He asked Mr. Dolan if he was interpreting that correctly. Mr. Dolan replied that there are a lot of things on the list that have been sitting there for a while because the list is longer than Planning has the ability to do. Commissioner O'Connor inquired if"on-going" means it is not really being done. Mr. Dolan replied that it means something is being done about it. Chair Blank noted that the East Pleasanton Specific Plan seems to have a lot of energy on it. Commissioner Narum indicated that the Task Force is working on that. Mr. Dolan stated that all three of the ideas that have been suggested are certainly good ideas. He noted that there is some activity on the implementation of the Climate Action Plan, which Ms. Diamond is working on in addition to the Housing Element implementation. He added that some of the Climate Action Plan implementation is going to be coming forward to the Commission in the form of text amendments. In terms of the third suggestion from Commissioner Narum regarding the Hacienda Business Park documents, Mr. Dolan stated that it was staffs intention to actually try and tackle that issue. He indicated that the City has known about it for a long time, and Mr. James Paxson, General Manager of Hacienda Business Park, reminds staff of it virtually every time they see him. He stated that staff wanted to do it as part of the Hacienda planning effort, but there was a certain point in that public dialogue where the Council directed staff to concentrate only on the three properties that were available and did not want staff to do any broader-range planning for the Park. He further stated that once the decision is made to fix the documents to work together, the main thing would be how square footage versus trips is calculated, as that is done differently depending on where the site is located. He noted that he thinks some of the projects that will be coming down the road are going to force the issue. He indicated that the Commission was presented several years ago with plans from CarrAmerica to add some commercial, which is over and above the current cap on the Park's square footage. He noted that this will sort of beg the question of all this regulatory issues within the Park. He further noted that even the residential projects that were rezoned for the Housing Element beg the question, although to a lesser extent. He added that the dialogue about the design guidelines for the BART station does the same because all of that was not necessarily envisioned in the previous numbers; it is something that staff will have to address. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, February 13, 2013 Page 13 of 20