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