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ATTACHMENT 4 General Plan Update Draft Community Character Element - Questions from Council member Cindy McGovern: answers/explanations from Plannin2 Staff January 16,2007 Counci/member McGovern: Thank you for your questions. Please see explanations/answers, below, in italics. For reference, I changed the bullets to numbers. 1. There are changes to the initial purpose paragraph that are not redlined. Goals and policies have been added. (original reads.. . and to establish a program to preserve ..) {JI] Sorry for that mistake. Because of the number of changes we can't do the automatic "compare documents". A new corrected page has been inserted in the Attachments with the Agenda Report. 2. There have been changes to the last sentence in the overview paragraph that are not redlined. (Original last sentence reads... The Major contributors to Pleasanton's community character are discussed below and summarized in Figure X-I.) {JI] Our mistake; corrected as above. Will there be no summarization? {JI] Figure X-I was a map that did not summarize community character, rather it illustrated various nodes of character-defining activities and features. The revised figure shows the same type of information and is included in the clean copy, Attachment 2, to the Agenda Report. 3. A transition type of heading seems to be needed where setting has been removed. It does seem to read easily going from the overview to the Pleasanton is situated, the two paragraphs don't appear to follow each other. {JI] The heading can be put back in if desired. 4. The bold type has been removed which accentuated the factors that contribute to the community character such as hillside and ridge line areas etc. {JI]The bold type was removed in all the Draft Elements because it adds to the visual confusion on the strikeout and underline copy. Bold type words could be used if desired; however, looking through the 1996 General Plan it's unclear why some words and not others are bolded. 5. In the 3 rd paragraph on page 10-1, should the word city be capitalized in the sentence City's history? Same question in paragraph 4, second sentence. {JI] These have been corrected in the Attachments included with the Agenda Report. 6. Paragraph 4, 10-1, sentence 2 has been changed and not redlined too. Original sentence ends with Happy Valley farming area, etc. Don't know why we add the keeping of farm animals in the Happy Valley farming area, among other aspects described below. Original sounds fine to me. We keep referring to "discussed below or described below". {JI] The corrected redlining is shown in the Attachments included with the Agenda Report. 7. In the sentence that follows, isn't this the character residents want to preserve? Do we need the word "many"? {JI] It can be changed ifso desired. 8. I had some difficulty with paragraph 4, 10-1, and the changes from the original. It is just awkward. Here is a possibility.