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she felt relief after receiving word of the appeal being withdrawn or feeling for her neighbor. This issue has polarized the neighborhood and created ill feelings. Historically, this has been a friendly neighborhood and she would prefer to keep it that way. She asked for other suggestions besides circulating a petition to initiate the rezoning. Again, Mayor Pico emphasized the need to have a strong indication from the neighborhood or a petition of a significant majority of the neighborhood that indicates they want the City to pursue the rezoning. Short of that, the City would probably not be prepared to act independently. To offer another perspective, Ms. Ayala indicated that this is a town that has plenty of neighborhoods similar to Ms. Karo's. Even ifa two-thirds consensus were reached, this would be starting a trend in like neighborhoods in Pleasanton. She believed her approach would provide Ms. Karo an opportunity to go back and review the original CC & R's. She would then have a better idea as to what the Council would ultimately end up dealing with at its level. She believed that if Ms. Karo's neighborhood is sincere about this, they should start at the grassroots level with the CC & R's, which is where it originally started. Ms. Hosterman felt Council needed to hear from a substantial percentage of the neighborhood before Council would be willing to look at changing zoning ordinances. This would allow Council the opportunity to enter into a discussion as well as researching and looking at all the various ramifications, for not just their neighborhood but how it may reverberate throughout the entire community. Based on her understanding of CC & R's, she was aware they expire after a certain period of time and that the only real remedy would be a zoning change. Again, she reiterated the need to hear from a large majority of the neighborhood that this would be the direction they wanted to proceed with before Council would be willing to consider the matter. Ms. Ayala recommended Ms. Karo attend the General Plan community meeting tomorrow evening. This would be the proper forum for her to voice her concern, as this is something that could potentially affect the entire community. Mayor Pico officially closed the public hearing and noted the Siner application had been withdrawn. Mr. Brozosky informed Council of his opportunity to speak with the Siners. He asked them if there were any way they could find something that would work that would make the neighbors happy with a second story addition. He indicated that the property owners spoke with their architect and received some plans back that made it better for the neighbors, but would not be useful to them and would cost more. They decided against going with a more expensive plan, which they did not like, and instead, to go back to the drawing board. It was Mr. Brozoslcy's belief that it would be even worse to try and change the zoning for an entire neighborhood. Pleasanton City Council 11 09/16/03 Minutes