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ROLL CALL VOTE AYES: Commissioners Blank, Fox, O'Connor, Olson, and Pearce. NOES: None. ABSTAIN: None. RECUSED: None. ABSENT: None. Resolution No. PC-2006-68 approved Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map 7721 was entered and adopted as motioned. c. PRZ-36. City of Pleasanton Work session to review and receive comments on proposed amendments to the Pleasanton Municipal Code to establish development standazds for sports courts. Ms. Decker summarized the staff report and described the background, layout, and scope of this project. Referring to Item 3.b. of Exhibit A, Acting Chairperson Fox inquired if the fencing has to be vinyl mesh and not just a chain link. Ms. Decker noted that open view fencing, including chain-link fencing, is allowed; however, there must be a top metal or wood rail to which the fencing is affixed so fences that aze as high as ten feet do not sag. Commissioner O'Connor -referred to Item 7. on page 3 of the staff report and requested clarification regazding the qualification that to be a sports court, the azea must have fencing or lighting. He inquired if the Municipal Code has a definition for portable sports equipment and expressed concern that anyone without lighting or fencing can pour concrete right up to the property line and bounce a basketball all day long, which could be a nuisance without having a sports court. Ms. Decker clarified that the items on the staff report aze discussion points which relate to questions that have been brought to staff s attention and which staff would like addressed with the Code amendment. She reiterated that rear and side yazds as well as basketball hoops in front of gazages aze not considered as sports court. She explained that the proposed Code amendments aze presented on Exhibit A in red-lined format. In response to Commissioner Blank's inquiry regazding whether staff considered including a noise limitation, Ms. Decker said no. She explained that staff had received vazious Code Enforcement requests to monitor basketball bouncing on pavement, which did not register above 60 dBA, the limit allowed outside the property plane by the Noise Ordinance. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Commissioner O'Connor disclosed that Mr. Frost is his neighbor. James Frost took exception to staff s comment that basketball bouncing does not register on the noise equipment. He handed the Commissioners a picture of his neighbor's sports court taken from his house and stated that he had several noise experts in his house to measure the sound of a bouncing basketball next door, and all the results were in excess of 70 dBA at the fence line, PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES December 27, 2006 Page 8 of 19