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V-94-21, 20 Deer Oaks Cl. Samuel Raber Page 3 December 6, 1994 development. Before the PUD could be approved, findings were made to prove that recommended mitigation measures should be adopted to help reduce the effects of those impacts. The EIR, the impacts determined to be significant, and those findings do have significance for your proposal for several reasons: A. Building envelopes for the steeper, hillside lots were adopted for this PUD through the EIR and development review process to minimize the impacts of residential development. Criteria such as topography (steepness), amount of grading, geologic sensitivity, riparian characteristics, vegetation, and visibility from other parts of Pleasanton were instrumental in the original determination to allow development within certain areas of the property, and instrumental in establishing the building envelope for each lot. B. Building envelopes were positioned to prevent development in areas with steeply sloped topography, with potentially unstable soils, with riparian habitat, and in areas which could create steep grade differences between the adjacent street and a potential building pad (a public safety concern). C. The proposed construction outside of an approved building envelope was not considered in the environmental review process, or during the public hearings for the PUD or tentative map. Building envelopes were chosen specifically to restrict development in areas which had been deemed sensitive during the environmental and development review process. In order to consider your application to permit construction outside of the approved building envelope for your lot, you application must address all of the environmental concerns which were considered during the original environmental and development review process and presented for review during public hearings for the PUD and tentative map. The designation of building envelopes occurred as part of discretionary actions on the EIR, PUD and tentative map. You have requested the postponement of environmental and technical review until issuance of a building pennit. However, these issues cannot be addressed at some later time, such as at the building permit stage (a ministerial act with no public input), because they are issues which were considered within the public forum and which must be re-considered within a public forum. The types of information and studies which are needed for PUD major modification are as follows: