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information on the commute shed and where people are commuting if they do not work directly in Livermore. Mr. Roberts replied that the concept of a jobs/housing balance is to provide one local employment opportunity for each employed resident that lives within the community. Statistically this provides at lea.st one measure of how balanced the community is and whether the city is providing an appropriate level of both job production and housing production. A balance of 1.0 is considered balanced. A great number of things influence where people actually work and live, i.e. spouses working in different cities and going in difl~:rem directions, housing costs and types of jobs and where those jobs are located. The plan addresses the issue of keeping the city from getting too far out of balance. Without the North Livermore project, it is estimated that there would be 1.8 jobs for every employed resident as compared to the goal of 1.0. With the North Livermore buildout and the buildout of the rest of the General Plan, the jobs/housing balance would be 1.3. Mr. Roberts continued that there are detailed traffic runs that include nmnbers about both where people work, which is one part of the equation, and where the trips are actually going. In commuting and out commuting are only about 20% of total trip production within a project. This affects regional transportation corridors and parallel routes. There is also information on where the total commute partern and total trip generation pattern goes and this information can be provided as a part of a more detailed response. This gets difficult because trips are generated by jobs. A house can be an almost unlimited distance away from the job and people will ultimately drive whatever distance they have to to get to that job. Job production ancbors one end of the trip; thus, if Santa Clara continues to build dramatically out of balance with its job/housing balance, or if any of the Tri-Valley cities would do that, it would ultimatuly lead toward a tremendous strain on our regional transportation corridors because the other end of the trip is all that is talked about, whether that is Brentwood, Tracy. North Livermore. or Pleasanton. Comparisons can be provided among these different alternatives. Commissioner Ayala expressed appreciation to Mr. Roberrs for coming to the City Council with his presentation. There is a lot of concern regarding infrastructure. She asked whether the infrastructure would be in place before the projects begin? Mr. Roberks said that this is certainly one of the project's objectives having the infrastructure on line before the project impacts are on line. In a situation where neither the city nor the county has jurisdiction over another agency~ it is its job to work cooperatively with those agencies to make sure that they are able to take the steps necessary to provide the infrastructures (e.g.. water supply). Livermore has been working with Zone 7 for the past four years and has looked at number of specific alternatives. Through the development agreement process Livermore can insure the development in North Livermore ultimately contributes ks fair share. What Livermorn ~vill do is to abide by what Zone 7 has on the books at the time the project is moved forward. As Zone 7 regulations change. the pla~ will ultimately change with it to address those issues. His understanding is that Zone 7 will have a master plan complete within the next 24 months. Pleasanton City Council 10 06/06/00 Minutes