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Adoption of Draft General Plan Amendments Staff has carefully reviewed the Pleasanton General Plan, to determine any necessary revisions to ensure consistency between the General Plan and draft specific plan as updated. The principal amendment needed is to the General Plan Land Use Diagram (Figure 2-1), to reflect the recommended General Plan map amendments for properties shown on DSP "Map A." Staff has prepared a map, based on DSP "Map A" properties, to indicate these proposed changes within the downtown area. Changes to the boundaries of the Downtown Specific Plan area would also be reflected in various maps and diagrams throughout the General Plan. Otherwise, staff found that only minor text changes were needed, to update references to the 2002 specific plan, to instead note the 2019 draft specific plan. Other policies and programs of the General Plan were found to remain consistent with the draft specific plan as amended. Please see Exhibit F, attached, for the draft General Plan amendments. Adoption of Draft Downtown Design Guidelines Amendments Staff reviewed and determined a few places in which amendments to the Downtown Design Guidelines would be needed to maintain consistency with the updated Downtown Specific Plan. These include updating the map of downtown to be consistent with the proposed draft specific plan boundary, and updates to the text to defer to the Downtown Specific Plan regarding height and building stories. Please see Exhibit F, attached, for the draft amendments to the Downtown Design Guidelines. Adoption of Draft Downtown Hospitality Guidelines Amendment Staff proposes to amend the map of the Downtown Specific Plan area in the Downtown Hospitality Guidelines to reflect the revised boundary of the plan area. A map of this straightforward change has not been included with the materials for this Planning Commission meeting, but will be included as part of the City Council materials when the specific plan is before the City Council for final action. Changes After the May 28, 2019, Task Force Meeting Since the May 28 Task Force meeting, staff proposes the additional changes: • Modification of PMC section 18.08.382, definition of "office, business, professional, or administrative" to expressly include mortgage companies and title companies, to make clear that these uses are not financial institutions. • Modification to page 26 of the draft specific plan, to clarify that "New ground-floor residential inclusive of live-work is prohibited on properties with frontage on Main Street ..." (see Item 9 in Exhibit E, attached). • Clarification to Program 12.4 of the General Plan Land Use Element that makes clear live-work units are not encouraged on the first floor (see Exhibit F, attached). • Clarification of typos in the draft specific plan (see Item 57 in Exhibit E, attached). Also, as the Planning Commission is aware, the City has recently acquired the properties located at 4363 and 4377 First Street, with the intent of using the properties for public purposes. The modified land use designations approved for these properties (General Plan as Community Facilities — Public and Institutional, Specific Plan to Public, and Zoning to Public and Institutional, Downtown Revitalization, Core Area Overlay District) will be reflected in the final Downtown Specific Plan as appropriate. Downtown Specific Plan Planning Commission 13 of 15 7 of 15 of 15