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make it clear that any such residential project would be subject to discretionary approval <br /> of a Planned Unit Development (PUD) and appropriate California Environmental Quality <br /> Act (CEQA) review. <br /> If the Council did not support inclusion of the requested land use change, the notation <br /> would not be included, and a future residential-only project would require approval of a <br /> future amendment to the DSP Land Use Diagram, along with any other required <br /> discretionary approvals, such as a zoning map amendment or PUD. <br /> Zoning & Planned Unit Development <br /> Any proposed land use or development in the DSP area must be consistent with three <br /> separate but related City planning documents: the City's General Plan, the Downtown <br /> Specific Plan, and the Pleasanton Municipal Code (PMC Zoning). Each of these <br /> includes a map or diagram indicating the applicable land use or zoning for various <br /> properties within the city. By law, there must be "vertical consistency" between the <br /> mapping and allowable land uses in each document, meaning that the land use <br /> designations in the Specific Plan must be consistent with the General Plan; and the <br /> Zoning Map's designation(s) must be consistent with both the Specific Plan and General <br /> Plan land use maps. <br /> With respect to the need to re-zone either property: addition of the DSP map annotation <br /> as described above would not remove their existing "Downtown Commercial" Specific <br /> Plan land use designation. As a result, there would not be a need to amend either the <br /> General Plan land use designation or zoning for either property at the time of Specific <br /> Plan adoption. However, as described, the map annotation would indicate that any <br /> proposal to develop either property with 100 percent residential uses would require a <br /> Planned Unit Development approval — involving re-zoning (to the Planned Unit <br /> Development designation), and adoption of a PUD Development Plan as part of that <br /> application. The PUD process, which typically includes one or more study sessions as <br /> well as public hearings, allows the public, Planning Commission, and City Council to <br /> consider the appropriate site specific project details. <br /> CEQA <br /> With respect to CEQA review, site-specific CEQA analysis would be required for any <br /> site redevelopment, which would supplement and be additive to the broader "program- <br /> level" analysis that is currently being prepared in the form of a Program EIR for the <br /> Downtown Specific Plan update. While the program-level analysis looks at the impacts <br /> of the total amount of development allowable under the Specific Plan, and the <br /> distribution of that development across different portions of the specific plan area, it <br /> does not look at that development at a site- or project-specific level of detail. Once <br /> certified, the information in the Program EIR can provide information and analysis that <br /> will help inform subsequent, project-level analysis; however, the project itself will be <br /> required to conduct more detailed analysis of any unique or site-specific impacts not <br /> captured in the broader program-level review. <br /> Density Assumptions <br /> Finally, the Council inquired about allowable density on the two properties. At this time, <br /> no specific density range has been adopted or is recommended for either. However, it <br /> Page 4 of 5 <br />