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The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Ayala, Dennis, Michelotti and Vice Mayor Pico NOES: None ABSENT: Mayor Tamer ABSTAIN: None Item 6h Review and comments rcl~ardine the North Livermore Snecific Plan Draft EIR. (SR 00:157) Brian Swit~ presented the staff report. Mark Robeas, Community Development Director for the City of 1 Avermore, gave a short presentation of the North Livermore Specific Plan Drab EIR. The County of Alameda and the City of Livermore have been working together for the past four years to implement a General Plan for the area. Individual General Plans were adopted by Alameda County (1993) and the City of Livermore (1994) for the area from Dublin's sphere of influence line over to the Springtown community (north of 1-580) in Livermore. Both General Plans envision 12,500 residential units with a minimum amount of commercial development. This will help Livermore achieve an overall job/housing balance at buildout. The current job/housing ratio is just over 1.0 and at build out the ratio ;vill be approximately 1.3. The unique planning process was to look at the two adopted General Plans and create a single Plan that both the county and the city could adopt. To achieve this task the City and the County appointed a joint planning staff with two representative f~m Alameda County and the City of Livemore to direct the process. The 12,500 units to be developed are to be around an urban core, with the highest density at the center of the plan. Approximately 40% of the residential density in the plan are located within a 10 minute walk of the commercial area, Over 90% of the units arc located within a 10 minute walk of elementary schools. The decision making process includes a schedule of 17 hearings before county boards, commissions, city boards/commissions/con~mittees, and the City Council of Livermorn and Alameda County Board of Supervisors. Additional hearings may be scheduled, but the hearings ;viii be held predominately in Hayward and l,ivermore. This schedule will go well into the Fall months. The cununent period for the EIR has been extended for the City of Livermore lbr two additional weeks, and now concludes on June 16, 2000. Then the preparation for the final EIR will begin. Comments on the Plan as well as further comments on the EIR will be accepted all the way tlu-ough the process, which will take place over the upcoming months. The June 16m date is not the final cut-off' date for comments on the Plan or even the environmental aspects of the plan. The objective of the June 16tn date is to set the deadline in order to begin preparing the Final E1R. Councilmember Dennis asked about the jobs/housing balance: what are the residents per job ratio. Also in terms of the jobs/housing balance today, what is the Pleasanton City Council 9 06/06/00 Minutes