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agreed they would enter into an assessment district to mitigate a sub- dard water situation in North Pleasanton and undertake to build fire stations and training t wers, and traffic improvements. With this in place, staff does not feel there will be y problem with respect to water and infrastructure. Commissioner Mahern noted that she had spoken with Chris Owens d Mark Sweeney. Chairman Hovingh noted for the record that he has spoken privately .th Chris Owens. He asked Mr. Swift if the City-wide mitigation fee would be levied on n w development. Mr. Swift stated that it is proposed to be levied on all new development, oth commercial and residential. In further response to Chairman Hovingh's question reg ding fees to low income housing developers, Mr. Swift replied that it has been the Cit 's policy to waive all fees in regard to the development of low income housing. Chairman Hovingh asked staff if an applicant comes in with a change in land use for any of the 24 lots, whether the City could re-examine the traffic impact. M. Swift affirmed the City would be able to do that. Chairman Hovingh referred to a staff comment that the City would n t do a traffic study for each development that would subsequently come into Hacienda Busin ss Park. He further questioned whether all the restriping is completed in Hacienda Busine s Park. Mr. Swift explained that all the striping is not yet complete; however, Council as authorized necessary ~ modifications to be made with extra NPID funds that are still availab Chairman Hovingh expressed some concern that traffic counts might ot be done as in the past and asked staff what would trigger another traffic study or furth r monitoring. Mr. Swift wished to clarify that traffic monitoring in Hacienda Business P k will continue to be done. All the intersections are part of the City's automatic count m hanism and traffic levels can be found out immediately by calling traffic engineering. Commissioner McGuirk noted that he met with Mark Sweeney and C ris Owens. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Chris Owens, 4309 Hacienda Drive, represented the application. H stated that he felt Mr. Swift had summarized the situation very accurately and concurred wi h the Conditions of . Approval. He felt that the Development Agreement could be treated asically the same as the one recently done for Stoneridge Drive. He went on to say that rudential has fulfilled all their obligations during the last ten years that they have worked w th the City. He stated the NPID has paid more than their fair share of traffic mitigations. e noted that the Development Agreement is basically an update of the original agree nt with the City; he felt that Prudential has been a good citizen of the community. At thi time they hope to be able to update the Development Agreement in order that the compan may stay profitable and in turn, continue to help keep the City economically healthy. Planning Commission Minutes September 9, 1992 Page 5