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`, PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA ?ff NUTES The regular meeting of the Pleasanton Planning Commission was held in the City Hall on Thursday, September 20, 1956 at B:00 p.m. with Chairman Hansen pre- siding. Roll Call showed present: Commissioners Abrott, Collier, Hanifen, Hewitson Nevis and Hansen. Abaent: None The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved as read. Chairman Hansen asked Mr. Newton and Mr. Fiorio to explain their building plans at this time so that the Commission could allow more time for the public hearing scheduled. The Commissioners will study the requested variances further. Correspondence: The Henry J. Kaiser Company have their Stanford Research Institute report on gravel operations near Pleasanton ready and asked for a suitable date to review the plans in detail. The Commission designated October 11, 1956, which will be a work session, for a meeting with Mr. Barneyhack of the Kaiser staff. Notices of public hearings on quarry permits, requested by California Rock and Gravel Company, H. J. Kaiser Company and Pacific Coast Aggregates, were read. Old Business• Chairman Hansen called on Mr. Williams of Harold Wise Associates to present his recommendations on the proposed professional area in Tract 1825. Mr. Williams presented several suggestions, providing for the use, as a professional area, of the property in question. He stated that amending the zoning ordinance to provide a new zone for professional use at this time would not be wise, since the existing zoning ordinance will have to be revised upon completion of the general plan studies of his firm. He suggested that an interim resolution be passed with the following restrictions: 1. The property may be employed solely in the following uses: (a) Administrative and executive offices. (b) Professional and financial offices and clinics (c) Studios (d) Off-street parking lots required to service permitted uses. (e) Accessory buildings and appurtenant to permitted uses. (f) One sign apurtenance to permitted uses, no sign to exceed two (2) square feet in area. 2. Structures shall be essentially residential in character and shall harmonize the architecture of existing structures adjacent to them. 3. No structure shall Se in excess of one story or fifteen (15) f::et in height. 4. Off-street parking space for each two hundred (2, 0) square feet of office floor space pl s oue (1) parkii:g space far each employee or staff member shall be provided. 5. i~la;:ianu,n lot eoverag;e shall be 25~ 6. A permanently landscaped strip no less than ten (10) feet wide abutting residential property lines and no less than twenty (20) feet wide abutting all p:xblic streets shall be maintained.