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Mr. Pico indicated Council is on record as being committed to working with San Francisco to have this property developed in Pleasanton. He asked what opportunities existed to recoup the costs of Mr. Calthorpe from the development. Mr. Swift indicated State law allows the City to recoup the costs of preparing a specific plan as part of the fees allowed to be collected as a project develops. If San Francisco were to develop in Pleasanton and if the city wished to recoup costs, it could do so as part of the development agreement or part of the statutory fees to be charged. Mr. Tarvet felt that the cost of the consultant was small compared to the overall costs of the project. Ms. Michelotti indicated the additional funding for Mr. Calthorpe would come from the General Fund. Ms. Acosta indicated funding is generally allocated for this type of work in planning. Jan Batcheller, 644 St. Mary Street, opposed spending any more money on Calthorpe & Associates. She does not oppose the Calthorpe plan, but objected to spending Pleasanton taxpayer dollars. She believed San Francisco should be planning this. There are staff members _ who could write the design guidelines. She suggested giving the Calthorpe plan to San Francisco and having San Francisco come up with guidelines for the City to review. She did not think Pleasanton should spend money to design this project. Keith Warden, 2931 Liberty Drive, regretted spending additional money on Calthorpe & Associates, but on the other he was apprehensive about the consequences of not doing so, because this type of neo-traditional planning is being done in an environment very different than when the towns were first built that we propose to copy. The real goal is to rupture a sense of community that has been destroyed by the physical aspects of urban design. He does not want to stop planning with Peter Catthorpe because the complexities of the issues involved here requires planning the details of urban and architectural design guidelines which must be done contemporaneously because of the complex dynamic changes in real estate and financing of real estate. Ms. Mohr had a reasonable concern about the marketability of the houses. He felt design guidelines were needed first to assure the developers and their financial institutions that there is something that is marketable. He felt flexibility of the design aspects of the final product will be lost if we stop dealing with Catthorpe. He grew up in a town with houses with front porches and garages behind the houses and that contributed to the sense of community. It allowed knowledge of the other people who lived in the community. That is destroyed by cut de sacs and garages with living quarters sinted behind them. He is concerned about spending the additional money, but feels it is probably best to do so. Rick Nelson, Project Manager for the San Francisco Water Department Bernal property, indicated San Francisco was not opposed to the concept of design guidelines for a project of this size. It helps developers to be assured their investments will be protected. The real issue is 06/04/96 -9-