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- Adoption of Municipal Code Amendments: The draft specific plan includes several policies and programs that necessitate updates to various existing sections of Pleasanton Municipal Code Title 18: Zoning. These amendments are generally either to add zoning standards where they do not exist today (e.g., allowable land uses and development standards for the newly-created MU-T and MU-D districts), or to update sections of the PMC that would be inconsistent with policies of the DSP once it is adopted. A complete draft of the recommended amendments to the Pleasanton Municipal Code is included as part of Exhibit A to Attachment 4. A summary of the proposed amendments, each of which is consistent with the Draft DSP, is provided beginning on page 10 of the Planning Commission agenda report (Attachment 5). - Adoption of General Plan Amendments: Staff has 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 Map, shown on DSP "Map A," as discussed above. Staff has prepared a map to indicate proposed General Plan land use map 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. These map changes and other minor text changes are reflected in Exhibit A to Attachment 2. - Adoption of 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 text updates, deferring to the Downtown Specific Plan regarding height and building stories. Please see Exhibit C to Attachment 2 for the draft amendments to the Downtown Design Guidelines. - Adoption of 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. This straightforward map change is Exhibit D to Attachment 2. KEY POLICY TOPICS: SUMMARY OF OUTCOMES AND RECOMMENDATIONS As mentioned earlier in this report, the Task Force, Planning Commission and City Council have, in the months leading up to this Council meeting, provided input and recommendations a series of five key policy items that had arisen from the Draft DSP review process. Table 1, below, provides a comparison between the February 26 Task Force recommendation, the April/May City Council direction, and the June 26 Planning Commission recommendation regarding three of the five key topics: ground floor residential uses, property owner-initiated requests, and development standards. The other two topics, massage establishment regulations and the active ground floor overlay are not included in this table since the City Council direction was the same as Page 8 of 18