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Mr. Swift said it would basically have been a question of consistency with the General Plan and whether a parking facility that is adjacent to the park was consistent with Commercial/Office/Industrial. He noted that it was an in between kind of issue and normally, the entire property is zoned the same type of classification. In this instance, this is what staff was trying to do since the General Plan changed the land use designation to Public and Institutional. Ms. Ayala asked about the BMX Park. Mr. Swift said it would be the same. With the BMX Park, the new zoning makes it clear a City park facility could be built there, The Central Commercial zoned district would have been more problematic. The overflow parking in the Central Commercial district does allow parking spaces as a permitted use, whereas it does not necessarily provide for a public park, which would have been what the BMX facility would have been. Ms. Ayala concurred with Mayor Picco's comments regarding not rezoning this property. She would rather have the property zoned Public and Institutional than Commercial and Office for the all of the same reasons everyone presented about traffic. She pointed out that one of the major issues about this project is traffic. She was not interested in rezoning this property and only seconded the motion for discussion purposes. If Council were to deny the appeal and wanted to initiate a rezoning, Mayor Pico asked if Council would need to rezone the property to something other than Public and Institutional? Mr. Swift said that the real question would be what is Council is trying to accomplish with the rezoning? Staff would probably not recommend that Council just rezone the 11-acre site, but rather the entire Shadow Cliffs Regional Park because clearly the 1 l-acres is part of Shadow Cliffs Regional Park at this time. Currently, the General Plan for Shadow Cliffs Regional Park is Public and Institutional, which is the appropriate General Plan classification. Council could leave the General Plan designation as Public and Institutional and have it zoned to Planned Development District, which would require a development plan and would allow a potential referendum of any expansion or any particular use within the entire Shadow Cliffs Park. He believed this was Councilmember Hosterman's intent. Mayor Pico said that if Council wanted to deny this project it ought to do so. If Council wanted the project to go to a vote of the people, he was prepared to vote to approve the appeal and to condition that approval upon a vote of the people at the City's next regularly scheduled election. He believed the only person who would challenge this decision would be the appellant. Ms. Ayala asked Mayor Pico if he meant to deny the appeal? Pleasanton City Council 5 03/30/04 Minutes