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Mr. Brozosky was concerned that the City was conducting testing of the baseline and looking for what the City might be contributing to the aquifers and if multiple individuals are having failed septic systems, there should be some why of monitoring them so that if the baseline changes, the City can tell if it is related to the Golf Course or the septic tanks in that area. He realized this area was private property but believed it was a health and safety matter that went beyond this property, which would affect other individuals. Mr. Roush said when staff conducted testing of wells on private property, it provided the results to those property owners so they could see what staff discovered which might trigger a conversation between them and their neighbors in terms of what might be causing this. The consultants staff hired recognized and will analyze if additional contaminates are found, whether those were attributed from the Golf Course as opposed to coming from an adjacent leach field. Mayor Hosterman declared the public hearing open. Jerry Wagner, appellant, noted in the 1970's, Alameda County put a building moratorium into effect on the Happy Valley/North Sycamore areas of south Pleasanton because the well water was polluted with nitrates. The City has annexed the north Sycamore area land and allowed developers to develop the land on the closed aquifer and under the Alameda County moratorium. He expressed concern about the nitrate ground water contamination on this site as it related to the closed aquifer. He believed the size of the house violated the Happy Valley Specific Plan and would further pollute the closed aquifer. He noted that the public hearing notice for this matter indicated the house was 6,785 square feet with a 992 square-foot garage for a total of 7,777 square feet. He believed the size of the custom home and garage should be reduced to blend in with the other homes in the Happy Valley area. He referred to Exhibit B of the staff report and noted that there were no colored building elevations and perspectives of the proposal taken from two viewpoints looking toward the front of the elevation from the westerly road and looking towards the rear from the present end of Club House Drive as listed in Item 10 of the Conditions of Approval, which did not make this a complete report. Terry Townsend, project architect and representing the applicant David Ouartaroli, referred to the Mariposa Ranch Design Guidelines which are provided to the homeowners in the Mariposa Ranch development by the Callippe Preserve Golf Course and are the guidelines that the architects and City staff are using to determine compliance for the project. He noted there is a mandatory threshold of 50 Green Building points that the buildings are required to attain and this project is exceeding this threshold. Green Building techniques that are being incorporated into this project are: job site material recycling, high efficiency irrigation systems, engineered lumber in the construction of Energy Star appliances, gradient barrier roof sheathing, high efficiency windows, low VOC paints and pre-wiring for photovoltaic cells for the future. He mentioned that all of the lots in Tract 7372 are to be hooked up to City water and sewer systems. The groundwater contamination has been a problem long before Mr. Ouartaroli purchased his lot and he believed staff would agree that the construction of the proposed home would have little if any effect on the current situation. The original square footage numbers were preliminary numbers when the applicant had conversation with staff in regard to the garage square footage credit of 600 square feet, which is a credit that has been assigned to numerous projects in different areas in Pleasanton and the original proposal, concluded a six- car garage, which was 600 square feet larger. He and staff found that 600 square feet was not allowed in a certain case and was a maximum that was assigned to the design guidelines. The applicant has trimmed this out and the numbers mentioned by the previous speaker of 7,777 square feet for the overall building square footage has been constant and was the same number Pleasanton City Council Minutes 16 1 1/1 5/05