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Resolution No. PC-97-17 Page 5 G. The plan conforms to the purposes of the PUD District: The proposed PUD rezoning and development plan conforms to the purposes of the PUD district. One of these purposes is to insure that the desires of the developer and the community are understood and approved prior to commencement of construction. Another is to provide a mechanism whereby the City can designate parcels and areas requiring special consideration regarding the manner in which development occurs. The proposed project conforms to these purposes because the site is one which requires careful consideration due to its inclusion in the SDSP, the proposed rezoning of 45 acres, and the relocation of the park site. The site also has received considerable citizen input, first through the adoption of the SDSP, and now through the developer's neighborhood meetings and the City's neighborhood meetings to try and develop a plan which is as least disruptive to the existing neighborhoods as possible, given the proposed changes. Neighborhood input resulted in no through street from Staples Ranch Drive to the proposed new neighborhood, an extension of the rear yards of homes on Vermont Place, and a design of the street and lotting pattern adjacent to existing homes which places new homes at least 62' from the rear property lines of homes on Vermont Place and Staples Ranch Drive. Other neighborhood concerns, such as the desire for larger lots and the elimination of the affordable housing component, had to be weighed against the developers need for the project to be financially feasible, the relationship of the proposed project with existing developments, and the needs of the overall community of Pleasanton. WHEREAS, the Planning Commission finds that the PUD prezonings and development plan are consistent with the General Plan and purposes of the PUD ordinance. NOW, THEREFORE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON RESOLVES THE FOLLOWING: Section 1. Recommends approval of the application of Kaufrnan and Broad/Alameda County for planned unit development prezoning to PUD-MDR (2-8 units per acre) and development plan approval to construct 80 townhomes for sale to moderate and lower-income buyers and 231 single-family detached homes on an approximately 45-acre site; to prezone an approximately 40-acre site to PUD-MCOIPD (Mixed Commercial Office Industrial Planned Development), and to prepare a 33-acre site to Public and Institutional for a public park located west of El Charro Road, south ofI-580, east of the California Place and California Somerset neighborhoods, and north of the Kaiser Sand and Gravel site, as an amendment to the Stoneridge Specific Plan, subject to the conditions shown on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made part of this case by reference.