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Ms. Mohr felt that "consider implementation" could be construed as implying that the City would do the implementation as opposed to the railroad group. She suggested adding "at no cost to the City of Pleasanton." It was moved by Ms. Mohr, seconded by Ms. Michelotti, to modify the Steering Committee recommendation as to Program 3.5 on page II-165, to read as follows: "Encourage bringing the historic train concept to the Downtown, at no cost to the City of Pleasanton. Also, study.other feasible uses of the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way, except for vehicular circulation (parking may be considered).~ Ms. Dennis suggested amending the language to say "bringing" instead of "implementation of" and Ms. Mohr agreed. Mr. Tarver disagreed with the wording because if any staff time is used for this project, someone could say City money is being used to encourage this. He did not think that kind of statement was necessary in the General Plan. The ballot measure says no City money will be spent and he did not see this as necessary. Ms. Mohr felt it was a matter of consistency and Mr. Tarver has pointed out that people will say "if the General Plan says... ' there will be a commitment. She also felt it was consistent with the language proposed by Mr. Churka. The r011 call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers - Dennis, Michelotti, Mohr, Pico, and Mayor Tarver NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Ms. Michelotti referred to the phrase "except for vehicular circulation". When the downtown study is done, she wanted that looked at and made clear that the right-of-way will not ever be converted to a street. The thought a few years ago was the opposite of that; to make First Street a residential street and move traffic over to the commercial area and use the Corridor for a street. Ms. Mohr felt that at the time the concept was good because First Street is a wonderful street of old Victorians, but the funding for it appears to be impossible and it would prevent the Iron Horse Trail concept from happening.. COmmercial Redesignation to Residential Ms. Mohr referred to a comment that there should be more active use around the BART station and wanted staff to respond to that. She has heard mentioned many times that having 07/02/96 -13-