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required Mr. Calthorpe to meet twice with the Council, to refine both of those plans one time, and a conceptual streetscape detail for a typical residential street. At the first meeting, the no golf course plan was rejected. The golf course plan has been revised twice, which was in the original task. Mr. Catthorpe has not done the streetscape portion and unless or until he does so, the City will not have to pay for that. Basically, on some elements of the contract he has done more than contracted for and other elements he has not been asked to do what was contracted. Staff will review the contract with regard to the dollar amounts. Mr. Swift believed Council had directed Mr. Calthorpe now to proceed with a lot more work than was contracted for and that is why this amendment was brought before Council. Ms. Micheloff felt the contract amendment was dealing with very site specific detail. She asked who usually pays for this under normal processes? Mr. Swift indicated it depends on who is requesting the specific plan. If the landowners are doing it, they pay for it; if the City is doing it, the City pays for it and then recoups the cost as the properties develop. Ms. Mohr was wondered if guidelines should come before the specific plan. How can you draw a specific plan without guidelines? She felt some guidelines ahead of time was beneficial. She was not sure she wanted Catthorpe to move forward with the specific plan as directed. She asked if there were other consultants familiar with "new urbanism". If so, could we go to bid for the project? Mr. Swift indicated Calthorpe was the main proponent of the style in the Bay Area and the largest firm. There are other fn'ms that can do that. We could go to bid. Initially, we selected Calthorpe because of his expertise. Ms. Mohr indicated that the City paid $48,000 for Catthorpe to draw up a plan and by the time Council Finished discussing it, only about 50 acres were not changed. The plan we ended with was not what the consultant presented. It reminded her of the process regarding the downtown plan. She was not sure she wanted to spend $60,000 to bring forth another plan that would be tom apart and redone. She felt staff could do that. Mr. Tarvet indicated he had wanted Calthorpe because he was in the lead in the area. He agreed there has been a lot of moving around and changing of plans, but his point was that the plan should be what Pleasanton wants. This is the last large parcel to be developed. It is near downtown and we are arguing about spending $60,000 to $100,000 on a possible billion dollar project in Pleasanton. He felt we should spend however much was necessary to feel comfortable that what is being done on that site is what the community wants. He wanted the design guidelines and other assistance. He did not object to San Francisco's request to do that later, but was concerned there would be problems and conflict later. There is trust involved and he wanted all the issues on the table. This is not an urgent task, however, and he was comfortable moving this to an agenda item to discuss how specific the Specific Plan should be. 04/16/96 -8-