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121 Mr. Roger Gage, representing Prudential Insurance Company, presented a layout of Site 9 of the Hacienda Business Park, a model of the three five-story towers, and a site plan showing landscaping. He elaborated on the details of each display. Mr. Norm Kornsand, representing Schirmer Engineering Corporation, presented the safety benefits of the buildings as it related to fire safety, which he stated far exceed what is required by code. He reviewed the various external and internal fire safety features in detail. Ms. Kathy Dano, landscape architect, reviewed the landscaping plan including the size, type, and location of trees to be planted. She stated that landscaping would begin as soon as the building shell and the parking lots are completed. The following persons spoke in opposition to this item: Mr. Jerry Morrow, 6890 Via Quito, stated he was opposed to the proposed 85 ft. height of the buildings. He stated he was not opposed to five-stories of 65 ft. in height. He stated he felt this would set a precedent and that other developers would ask for greater heights for buildings and be granted approval. He requested CounCil to approve the 65 ft. height limitation for the five-story buildings~ Mr. Paul Ebright, 5416 Blackbird Drive, stated he and other citizens, representing Citizens for a Balanced Community, had artended a meeting with Joe Callahan in his office on June 8, 1982, and at that time representatives of Prudential Insurance pany and Joe Callahanmade an agreement that if there were no law suits or referendums filed that Hacienda Business Park would not have any buildings over 65 feet in height. He stated that now this agreement was being ignored and he felt thi3 ~-~g a _-~-1~ ~f -good-~-and in~agrity ~n-~-~--d--.~hedevet~pef-s-~n~--Gi~y-Couneil~ He requested this agreement be upheld and the limitation of 65 feet be required on the five-story buildings. *the Cit Council was being dishonest with the citizens. Mayor Mercer stated ~he City Council was not a party to that agreement. Mr. Zack Cowan, Attorney representing Citizens for Balanced Growth, presented a letter from this group dated August 24, 1982, which read as follows: "Citizens for Balanced Growth has been formed by residents of the Livermore- Amador Valley area and has filed legal action against the City of Pleasanton based on the inadequacies of the EIR and the violation of the "balanced growth goal" in Pleasanton's general plan. "As part of the EIR, the City devised 109 "conditions" for the building of Hacienda Industrial Complex. Condition B number 15 is a building height limit of 65 feet. The members of the CBG question the validity of these conditions as the City Council is now, at this early date of construction approval, considering a variance to the conditions. "The CBG asks whether the "conditions" were established to improve Hacienda Industrial Complex or an effort to placate the citizens of Pleasanton so that they would support the approval of Hacienda? "The simple consideration of a building that is more than 30% in excess of the 65 foot height limit indicates the latter. If the council OKs the building in question, they will prove their lack of concern for the city and its citizens as well as the council~s need to allow growth only for the sake of growth. The growth Hacienda will create will result in an im- balance between residents and industry and an imbalance between water and sewage capacities and industry. 5. 8/24/82