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3. MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Patricia Belding, 7703 Highland Oaks Drive, Citizens for a Caring Community, thanked Mr. Paxson and Allison Brooks for their leadership on the innovative planning for Hacienda Business Park. She also recognized them for their mindfulness of the needs for affordable housing. She believed the proposal as presented is very interesting and she believed strongly in transit-oriented mixed use centers as the city matures. She noted her group has spoken to the Council about the need for about 800 low and very low-income housing units to meet its regional fair share housing obligations. The city has done well in providing moderate housing, but more focus is needed to provide the low and very low-income units provided in a mixed income setting such as the Promenade development and inclusionary zoning units in other developments. The proposal as presented uses up most of the remaining units in the housing cap. It would have inclusionary zoning but would not provide the necessary 800 low-income housing units and no units left over for planning in other parts of the city. One solution to this problem would be to raise the housing cap to provide for the required affordable housing in various parts of the city, but her group did not support that course of action. It would require an election that would amount to a vote on whether people wanted lower income people to live in Pleasanton. Another possibility is for Council to take action now to zone the 30-40 acres of property necessary for multi- family residential in various parts of the city. That could be done within the cap and the development of Hacienda could be considered later. She believed if the affordable problem were solved now separately from Hacienda's development, future plans for it could be considered more freely. She would be willing to raise the cap to provide work force housing in Hacienda. She thanked the consultants for this innovative proposal. Howard Neely, 448 Amador, asked if new property were annexed to the city, is it locked into the existing housing cap? The housing cap was set on X amount of land and if the Staples Ranch is annexed, does that affect the housing cap? Mr. Iserson said any land annexed to the city would be subject to the existing housing cap. Bob Plemmons, 5721 Belleza Drive, said the residents in the Hacienda Business Park do not have a direct voting right for anything that happens there. However, the homeowners association contributes $36,000 a year to Hacienda Business Park so he felt the residents should have some input on decisions made for the area. He referred to the proposed 1,450-1,650 residents and asked if they were in the five areas marked as mixed use areas on the map and not in the yellow areas indicated as residential? He noted the zoning has not been changed on those residential areas. He said in other meetings he has attended, it seemed Hacienda Business Park applications were blanket approval or denial, but not in line items as for other parts of the city. He suggested that when the proposal comes to Council for approval that each section is line-itemed so the whole package is not approved if residential is not desired in a particular area. Joint Workshop City Council/Planning Commission 10 10/25/05