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.__ 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MA'FI'ERR Item 4b Consultant contract with Mundie & Associates for Supplemental Environmental Im~3act Report ~'EIR) - Greenbriar Homes' request for Happy Valley Specific Plan modifications and prelect approval~ Spotorno Ranch. (SR 04:214) Jerry Iserson, Principal Planner, presented the staff report. Mr. Brozosky noted that at this point, Council is not approving a 97-unit, single-family detached home project on the Spotorno flat. Council is only considering approving preparation of a supplemental Environmental Impact Report. When it comes to considering the project, he asked if Council could consider anything up to a 97-unit, single family detached home project? Mr. Iserson said Council would have its full range of options when the Environmental Impact Report has been completed, as it will include different project alternatives. Council could also choose to deny the project. Mr. Brozosky asked if any additional density was being added to the Specific Plan? Mr. Iserson said that the density would still be consistent with what the General Plan would allow. It is just shifting the project from the upper portion of the Spotorno property to the flat portion of the property. Vice Mayor opened the meeting for public comments. Vanessa Kawaihau, a Happy Valley resident, believed the supplemental Environmental Impact Report needs to be done because someone might say that the alternate bypass road could not be built. The City needs to identify the traffic impacts to the community should an alternate bypass road not be built. She thanked the developers for meeting with the Happy Valley community. The Happy Valley community is not excited about seeing an area approved for 16 homes increase to 97 homes. The developer representatives assured the Happy Valley community that they would come back with a reduced density. She was hopeful that the developers would honor their word to the Happy Valley community members and continue to work them to see a reduced density in a more rural setting. During the Council's Special Meeting of June 29, she was glad that Council took the action to not approve any new development plans during the General Plan revision. She noted that the Planning Commission during its General Plan update meeting on the south Pleasanton area issues directed staff to look into an independent estimate or peer review of the costs associated with building the bypass road, and various scenarios on how the bypass road could be built including the number of homes required to build it. The Happy Valley community would request that some formal documentation be provided that shows that the upper bypass road as shown in the Happy Valley Specific Plan cannot be built. Alternatives must be considered. John Spotorno, the project applicant, said he was in favor of keeping the process moving. He referenced a letter from Al Spotorno and family in response to the September 21, 2004 memorandum to Council from staff recommending that the project with Greenbriar Homes not move forward at this time because it would require General Plan and Specific Plan amendments. He pointed out that Council has directed the Spotorno family to come up Pleasanton City Council 5 09/21/04 Minutes