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under the existing General Plan and unless that changed and the City wanted to add a different type of housing. Commissioner Roberts asked if congregate living counts towards the housing cap numbers. Mr. Swift said that is something the City Council would have to be addressed in the General Plan Update. Assisted living units are not subject to the City's growth management program. Most of assisted living development is done in commercial and office designated property in the General Plan. There is a debate of whether these units count towards meeting the City's regional fair share needs, which ABAG is addressing. Most of the properties developers have looked at for building assisted living are in commercial and office zoned areas. Commissioner Fox asked about the increase in the noise levels indicated in the Livermore Airport expansion. The Livermore Plan recommends not having units built outside of the current boundaries of the Livermore Airport protection areas. She wanted to know if staff had discussed this with Livermore staff. Mr. Swift said that discussion had not yet taken place. He understood the document indicated Livermore's recommendation that no houses be placed near the airport and discouraged housing from being built in this location. That EIR states from a noise standpoint housing is fine and if the airport is expanded there is not a problem. City staff believes that a better job can be done with the noise analysis component. It is unlikely that expanding the Airport Protection Area is in Livermore's plan. Councilmember Ayala asked if this would rule out Staples Ranch. Mr. Swift said that if Council did not want to add any more housing adjacent to the airport protection boundaries, it would impact Staples Ranch and a small area on the Hansen Property. The area closest to the protection area, which is the final phase of the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan, and the Mohr School area, has mitigation measures that are more extensive than some of the housing that was built further to the west. Complaints come from everywhere, but there are more complaints from houses that do not have the noise mitigation that was built in the most recent projects within the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan. The two keys of this are mitigation and type of housing. Councilmember Hosterman asked how many units are involved in the Vintage Hills property and all of the properties within the Hacienda Business Park. Mr. Swift said 150 to 200 are all that the sites could handle. The Council first discussed the Vintage Hills Shopping Center site. Because Mr. Campbell owns property within 500 feet of said site, Councilmember Campbell reeused himself and left the Council Chambers. Minutes of the 4 06.29.04 Joint Workshop City Council & Planning Commission