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1996 General Plan, various Specific Plans, the General Plan Issues Report and ideas discussed at Planning Commission and City Council meetings on the General Plan Update. This Preliminary Draft was then reviewed by the Planning Commission at two meetings (April 7 and April 27, 2005). At the April 27 meeting, the Planning Commission listened to public comment, considered the draft Vision and Principles prepared by staff and also discussed a narrative Vision statement provided by one of the Commissioners. A discussion ensued that resulted in some proposed amendments to both the staff draft (Attachment 1) and the Commissioner's submittal (Attachment 2). However, Planning Commissioners expressed the opinion that this discussion had already taken place with the community in meetings at the beginning of the General Plan Update process, and that as General Plan work proceeded, the direction or vision of the General Plan would become clearer. No further discussion of this subject was warranted at this time. The Planning Commission's recommendation to the City Council was to abandon the visioning process in favor of starting work on the substance of the General Plan. DISCUSSION Attachment 1 shows the draft Vision and Principles as amended by comments from two Planning Commissioners. Attachment 2 represents the vision statement prepared by Commissioner Roberts as amended with other Commissioner comments. Neither was agreed on by the Planning Commission as a whole. Assuming the City Council wishes to proceed with the Visioning process, staff proposes the City Council select (and amend, if appropriate) either the Draft Vision and Principles shown in Attachment 1 or the Vision Statement shown in Attachment 2. Staff further proposes public review on the following schedule: Late May 2005 Draft Vision and Principles published in Pleasanton Weekly; City staff at Farmers Market to pass out material on Vision and Principles and Town Meetings (see below); Vision and Principles posted on General Plan web page. Early June, 2005 Two Town Meetings where members of the public work in small groups to review and refine the Draft Vision and Principles. July, 2005 City Council considers Draft Vision and Principles as amended with public input. City Council reaches agreement on Draft Working Vision and Principles to guide development of General Plan goals, policies and programs At the recent City Council Priorities meeting, the question of the Vision Statement process was discussed. While it seemed that the consensus of the Council was not to hold a City Council SR 05:115 Page 2 of 3