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6. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS Item 6a PAP-50, Appellant: Jennifer Hosterman (PDR-338~ Wal-Mart Stores). (SR 04:226) Appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of the application of Wal-Mart Stores for design review approval to construct an approximately $,264-square-foot stockroom addition and an approximately 5,761-square-foot garden center expansion to the existing Wal-Mart store located at 4501 Rosewood Drive in the Metro 580 shopping center. Zoning for the property is PUD-I/C-O (Planned Unit Development - Industrial/Commercial-Office) District. Brian Swift, Director of Planning and Community Development, presented the staff report. Mr. Brozosky asked staff if Wal-Mart had certain vested rights on how much it could expand in its current location? Mr. Swift said the original approval had a 30,000 square-foot area that could be added on to the building, towards Rosewood Drive. The 5,264-square-foot stockroom expansion would be constructed on a portion of the site currently paved as a parking lot on the south side of the existing store and adjacent to the existing stockroom area at the back of the store. Like most of the properties in the Hacienda Business Park, this property is governed by a development agreement; therefore, this property is fully vested. The City is allowed design review approval over this part of the application, which is why the Planning Commission asked the applicant to redesign the building and come back with a different plan. He pointed out that Council's review is limited to the design for this lot and a new traffic study could not be requested, as the issues have been resolved with the original approval of this development and other developments in the Hacienda Business Park. Ms. Ayala believed the Hacienda Owners Association had talked with Wal-Mart about addressing its storage area for Christmas supplies. Mr. Swift was not sure that the Hacienda Owners Association discussed this matter with Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has routinely asked staff if it may park trailers in the rear of the store for temporary inventory storage. This request was not approved in the original approval and staff has not been able to support this request. WaI-Mart's request for this expansion is for a storage stockroom area that will be located inside the building so that it may hold additional inventory all year. Ms. Hosterman noted that the 30,000-foot expansion is relatively small. She asked if it would make an overall difference to require an additional traffic study if Wal- Mart were to expand its store site to 30,000 additional square feet or more, which would identify what the impacts would be to this area? Because of the original approval and the conditions of approval that govern this property and many of the other properties that were owned by Prudential in the early 1990's, Mr. Swift said that as long as the expansion proceeds within the square footage that was allowed, no new traffic study is required. The 30,000 square feet that was approved for this building can be built without a traffic study. If Wal-Mart expanded its building larger than 30,000 square feet, the conditions of approval require that Wal-Mart Pleasanton City Council 5 09/07/04 Minutes