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41'~ y ~s"N~° CITY of PLEASANTON `~ ~'~~ CO mISSiOn .~ Plann~n m ~wrso ~ g MINUTES ~OF REGULAR MEETING. D Ot8 August 24, 1971 Time : s:lo PM f'IaCe; Pleasanton Justice Court report is on file. He also said that he agreed with Commissioner Pereira that he did not appreciate getting direction from the City Council through the news media. In answer to a question from Chairman Garrigan regarding having the staff set some sort of stage development policy, Commissioner Hirst felt that this is really the function of the elective City Council. He further said that he felt it is the function of the Planning Commission to direct the land use within the City. Chairman Garrigan felt that the staff should put together some sort of recommendation tha the Commission could look at and could recommend to the Council. Commissioner Pons recalled that a density group was established at the beginning of the year to study densities and it never got off the Bound and feels that it is important that it be reinstated. He further said that no matter what plan or formula we set, growt will still be an application by application basis. Better guidelines would be desirable Certainly the idea of stage growth guideline could be taken into consideration the needs of the City regarding its growth and the specific needs of the community with each particular application. Chairman Garrigan then received affirmation from the Commissioners to direct the staff to contact the City Manager and the Council through the Manager and advise them that we want to begin work in this direction and als caould like to have a joint meeting regarding the situations at hand as soon as possible, and also the density committee perhaps shoul have a meeting also. Chairman Garrigan then opened the meeting f any members of the audience. At the sugges of Commissioner Hirst, the General Plan of the City was displayed. - 2 -