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MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP Pleasanton, California City Manager's Conference Room 123 Main Street Wednesday, August 24, 1988 7:OOpm CALL TO ORDER The Planning Commission Work Session was called to order at 7:OOpm by Chairperson Sharrell Michelotti. ROLL CALL Commissioners Present: Joyce Berger, Brian Hoyt, Jack Hovingh, Marcelline Mahern, Ben Tarver, and Sharrell Michelotti, Chairman Commissioner Absent: None Staff Members Present: Brian W. Swift, Director of Planning and Community Development; and Chandler Lee, Principal Planner Chairman Michelotti called the meeting to order. The Planning Commission discussed the Redevelopment Plan and EIR, which they will review shortly. Discussion centered around the process as to review of proposed Redevelopment Plan. The Planning Commission then discussed with staff the levels of information and types of conditions which could be applied and which would be appropriate at each stage of project development. The Planning Commission discussed in general the public hearing process procedural requirements including the Brown Act requirements, Parliamentary Procedures the Planning Commission uses. The Planning Commission discussed ways to run their meetings to maximum the information they gain from applicants and the public while minimizing "argument" taking place between the Planning Commission and public. The Planning Commission then reviewed with staff various aspects of regulations governing their decision-making process including viable basis for decision making (focussing on due process and the difference between legislative and quasi-judicial acts, limitations on their ability to make decisions (eg vested interests such as development agreements, vested tentative maps, the limitations on and their ability to attach conditions), the requirements for making findings on certain actions.