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Ms. Michelotti said the Vineyard Corridor Specific Plan was approved by the <br />Council and that area goes back to agriculture if the CAPP initiative passes. Where is the <br />equity? <br /> <br /> Ms. Ayala pointed out the City has spent $1.7 million of the citizens' money to work <br />toward the golf course. She felt an obligation to get the golf course and hoped it would <br />have unanimous approval by Council. <br /> <br /> Ms. Acosta said staff had discussed the Lund property and found it did not make <br />sense to include it. Greenbriar was not included and it was part of the North Sycamore <br />Specific Plan as was the Lund property. No one from the Noah Sycamore Specific Plan is <br />being included. Only those projects that led the bypass road to the golf course road were <br />included in any discussion as to how to bring the golf course together. In addition, that <br />would add many more units to the project. <br /> <br /> Ms. Dennis pointed out that Greenbriar has its approvals and the Lund project does <br />not. The benefit for the people who would sign the agreement is that they would be allowed <br />to develop and be exempt from CAPP. <br /> <br /> Mr. Pico believed there was another option. He also supported the golf course and <br />felt it was a critical piece of stopping development to the south of Pleasanton. It will create <br />a barrier and annexation of Happy Valley is a part of that. He suggested preparing a City <br />Council sponsored initiative for November that is similar to the CAPP initiative but <br />provides for exclusion of areas that have approved Specific Plans; Happy Valley, Noah <br />Sycamore, and Vineyard Corridor. There may be an option to create an exemption from <br />CAPP and if the people want it enough they can vote for it. That is the only thing he would <br />want to consider even though he presented it with real hesitation. He believed that those <br />who drafted the CAPP initiative specifically omitted the Happy Valley area. He also <br />believed that unless New Cities changes its development proposal, the people of Pleasanton <br />have to have the fight to vote on it. <br /> <br /> Ms. Michelotti believed that Council could give staff broader direction to look at <br />other areas and draft agreements to allow specific plan areas to come through under the <br />normal process without having to make it a separate Council sponsored initiative in <br />competition with the CAPP initiative. <br /> <br /> Mr. Pico felt the developers had presented this development agreement because they <br />didn't want to go through the normal process. They are afraid of what will happen with the <br />CAPP initiative. He suggested another option of putting something on the ballot to exempt <br />the Happy Valley Specific Plan, or the Vineyard Corridor, or the Noah Sycamore area as <br />separate items and hope they all get more votes than the CAPP initiative gets. The flaw is <br />that Noah Sycamore can't survive unless New Cities makes adjustments. If North <br />Sycamore doesn't survive then the bypass road is in jeopardy along with other things. <br /> <br />Pleasanton City Council 14 07/29/99 <br />Special Meeting <br /> <br /> <br />