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feel that allocating them in order to create a model in any way provided entitlement. For instance, regarding Hacienda Business Park, she believed transit-oriented development is truly smart growth and should be considered. She also appreciated concerns about maintaining a mix and having enough space for future commercial development. She believed there was room for both and encouraged Hacienda to continue to develop a project to present to the community. She summarized that there was not too much deviation from a reserve for the Busch property school site. She favored a future reserve of 200 units, but also supported assigning those units to various areas in order to get a good picture of traffic. Option B3 allocated 350 units for the West Dublin BART station and she was uncertain if that was realistic, but felt it was important to understand what the traffic would be for that model. Hacienda specific plan is allocated 808, but she could see potential for adding a substantial number of units. She did not believe Staples Ranch was a residential project. It was a medical facility and the number of units is undetermined as yet because the discussions have been with the County, not the city. She supported allocating zero units for this site. She might agree to 65 units, but strongly believed this was a medical facility and should be counted as an assisted living project and not counted towards the housing cap. She did not see any opportunities for housing in the east side of Pleasanton in the near future. She agreed the area needs a specific plan, but believed some mix of commercial/office/light industrial use was best for the area. There could also be some institutional uses in the future. Kottinger Place should have 100 units for the sake of the model to determine what the traffic circulation would be at the intersection of Vineyard and First. She had grave concerns about how the expansion could work. She was very interested in downtown in-fill and could accept anything from 25-100 units. All these scenarios will satisfy the requirement to rezone for an additional 871 high-density multi-family units as contemplated in the Housing Element. There has been a lot of talk about the regional housing numbers allocation set forth by the State of California, but that is an unfunded mandate and she is not interested in trying to comply with it. The numbers are way too high and do not make sense. She felt every community in California would be totally unbalanced if they tried to comply with these mandates. She asked staff if it had been able to coalesce these numbers and could help reach a consensus on how to move forward. Mr. Fialho said there is a range of possibilities, but in order to prepare a model, it is necessary to get some consensus in terms of some specific numbers. He summarized there appears to be consensus on downtown, Kottinger, and Valley Trails. For the southeast side specific plan, the maximum he heard was 250 units and he felt that was an appropriate number for modeling purposes knowing that Council has full discretion to go below that number through the specific plan process. For modeling, he believed the worst-case scenario should be used. That also applies to Staples Ranch. Council is struggling with how to count the units, but that discussion would occur at a subsequent meeting. He wanted a straw poll on the West Dublin BART station project. He had heard a range of 250-350 units. Mr. Brozosky said he had suggested 250 but could agree to 350 for modeling. Mr. Fialho then referred to the reserve, which had been discussed at 200-500, although the majority of Council members had suggested 200 units. Whatever number of units is left would go to the Hacienda Business Park. He believed Mr. Sullivan had asked if staff could identify two extreme cases of dispersed units and transit-oriented development. The identified consensus is not extreme in either direction. He thought Council should look at the analysis and pick an extreme dispersed and an extreme TOD for further analysis in the EIR process. He felt he had identified a preferred land use plan, but staff still needed additional options to review and consider in the EIR process. For example, Option A3 would be a good one to model for Joint Workshop City Council/Planning Commission 20 04/25/06