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wants due process and a fair chance to be heard. He hoped Council would agree that his plan has been done correctly and in conformance with the Specific Plan guidelines and all other guidelines. He hoped that no politics will be involved in this hearing. It doesn't matter whether someone is for or against CAPP to be for or against these applications. Many other projects have gone in front of them over these nine years while he and his neighbors have been waiting to use the zoning they have always had. Stephen Behm, 914 Gray Fox Circle, requested a condition on the three lots at the ridgeline of the south end of the McGuire property to lower the elevation to 490 feet. He believes this is a quality of life situation. When he comes home, he likes to be able to sit in his back yard and look at Mt. Diablo. He does not want to have his view obliterated by new development. This has been a good process and the neighborhood meetings have gone well. He would also like to have more shrubbery planted on the natural ridge to screen the houses. He felt this would help the new homeowners as well because there is a long term lease for storage of dump trucks on the old landfill site and the trees would screen the trucks from their view. John Dolan, 1778 Tanglewood Way, indicated he has seen a lot of changes in Pleasanton over the years and likes the way the City has developed. He said he was here to testify about the character of Brian McGuire. He first met Mr. McGuire when he was coaching Mr. Dolan's son' s soccer team. He knows Mr. McGuire has spent the last ten years working on this project and he has also spent a great deal of his time working with the community and helping the community in many ways. He urged Council to approve this project. Stan Erickson, 3684 Chillingham Court, indicated he had been asked to speak on behalf of a number of the Vineyard Corridor property owners with regarding the CAPP Initiative. He asked Council not to make a decision on these applications based on political issues. He asked for Council to decide as if there were no CAPP Initiative pending. He said there was a special provision in the CAPP Initiative that allows for a Specific Plan to be approved by the voters and that would allow the projects within the Specific Plan to go forward without further voter approval. Mr. McGuire has volunteered to work with him in preparing a CAPP II Initiative in the future. He also said this type of process, which aggregates a number of projects into one, could go on in other parts of the Vineyard Corridor or other areas and is better planning. CAPP was written to encourage better planning. He felt voters would prefer to look at large impact projects rather than single properties. The Vineyard Corridor has a large impact, whether it is by single property owners or not. Encouraging many property owners to work together improves the planning ability of staff and Council. It is possible that Council could disallow voting on several projects together or not to allow the Specific Plan to be voted on and this would make it very hard on the individual property owners. However, the CAPP Initiative does have the flexibility to make it easy on the property owners. He also wanted to make a point that CAPP does not prefer any particular type of development, whether in-fill or otherwise. It is a voter approval Initiative so voters can decide whether an entire project is good for the community. This differs from many environmental groups, which are proposing high density/mass transit oriented types of development. 22 09/2b/99 Pleasanton City Council Minutes