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foot wide corridor of land connecting to Sycamore Road is too narrow to accommodate a drive aisle. Therefore, there would be no access to this development from Sycamore Road in the short term. However, future access to Sycamore Road might occur for the subject development when the adjacent 336 Sycamore Road property to the south is developed with an office building as allowed by the NSSP. Therefore, staff requested that the applicant not preclude future vehicular connection to the 336 Sycamore Road property by placing permanent structures near the southeast corner of the property, which the applicant agreed to do, and the proposed site plan will allow for future access to Sycamore Road with a slight modification to the parking lot. PUD FINDINGS Please refer to the attached Planning Commission staff report, pages 17-20, for a discussion of the considerations needed to approve the proposed PUD development plan. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of the proposed project was mailed to the surrounding property owners and tenants within 1,000 feet of the subject properties and was also published in the local newspaper. Except for the comments made by Mr. Close at the Planning Commission hearing, staff has not received any written or verbal comments pertaining to the proposal. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was prepared and certified for the North Sycamore Specific Plan (NSSP). The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) specifies that individual development projects that are prepared pursuant to the requirements of an adopted specific plan, for which an EIR has been prepared and certified, are exempt from additional environmental review. Since the subject development is also proposed on the 5998 Sunol Boulevard property, which was not part of the NSSP or its EIR, a draft Negative Declaration accompanies this report to address the potential environmental impacts from the additional development on the 5998 Sunol Boulevard property. Based on an initial study, staff believes that approval of Case PUD-65 would not have any significant adverse effects on the environment. If the Council concurs with this environmental assessment, you must make the finding that the Negative Declaration is appropriate prior to taking action on the project. CONCLUSION Staff believes that the proposed project meets all applicable requirements of the Pleasanton Municipal Code, North Sycamore Specific Plan, and General Plan as conditioned. In the opinion of staff, the project's building and site design, as proposed and conditioned, is appropriate for the surrounding area, conforms to the purposes of the PUD Ordinance, and merit a favorable decision by the Council. Page 6 of 7