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water, roads, etc.; do you feel design controls are important, such as architecture and style, street lighting; are clustering and affordability of housing important issues? Those questions are more important than how many cars should be on the street or how big should houses be? He volunteered to help write the questionnaire. Roger Smith, 6344 Alisal Street, also felt the questionnaire will be very helpful to understand the true feelings of the neighborhood. He also volunteered to write questions. He did not believe it is possible to do it by May 15 as set forth in the timeline. He indicated the experiences in getting everyone together the last few weeks was very rewarding and as he predicted, 90% of the issues were resolved. He reiterated his belief that the last 10% will be the hardest. Nick Chapman, 255 Happy Valley Road, spoke in favor of the golf course and hoped it will provide services to the Happy Valley Loop. He endorsed a carefully drafted survey. The General Plan Steering Committee recommended two acre parcels. One question should be to see what type of lot people want there (one acre, two acre, half acre). Also, if there are questions on services, it needs to be clarified whether the sewer would go around the loop and who will be able to tie into it. Will county residents be on the mailing list.'? Could they tie into the sewer? Make sure the sewer line is at proper depth so homes don't have to install pumps. Ms. Dennis felt the survey should also ask how people are using their property now and if they want to preserve that use to see if parcel size and desired land use go together. It was moved by Nls. Mohr, seconded by Ms. Dennis, to direct staff to begin a community planning process in July for the municipal goff course in south Pleasanton in an attempt to resolve issues concerning the golf course. Mr. Tarver appreciated the staff recommendations and report. His desire is to talk to people involved to get them into the process and felt it must be part of the process so they understand what the issues are. He agreed the survey was necessary and the community should be involved in that. Ms. Acosta indicated that is what staff will be doing. The only distinction between the Mayor's desire and the staff recommendation is that staff cannot take the time and energy to really pull this together until July. We are starting this process by hiring the project manager. It is free to start talking to people, but what happens practically is that people don't understand how the issues relate to one another, so they come back to staff with questions and requests to attend meetings. Staff absolutely does not have time until July. Mr. Pico believed that staff and Council intend the public will be involved in designing the survey and during the time that is being done, Council is avaiiable if we want to continue to talk about this. We need to adhere to concerns of staff. He is encouraged by progress so far and there is no reason we cannot continue this process. He did not feel this is the top priority and there are plenty of other things to do. 05/07/96 -22-