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MINUTES CITY OF PLEASANTON Special City Council Meeting August 29, 2006 1. CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Hosterman called the Special Meeting of the City Council to order at 10:55 p.m. ROLL CALL - Present: Councilmembers Brozosky, McGovern, Sullivan, Thorne, and Mayor Hosterman. 2. MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC James Paxson representing the Hacienda Business Owners Association, referred to the debate on whether to do one model or three and indicated Hacienda Business Owners Association would be happy to pay for its share of the work since it would be paying for the work in conjunction with its specific plan anyway. He believed that at this stage of Council deliberation, that would be important input. 3. ACTION ITEMS CONCERNING GENERAL PLAN UPDATE Councilmember Sullivan said the number of models had nothing to do with favoritism to a developer, but rather providing good information for Council. That might help with all the problems Council is struggling with. To review the circulation without that information would be to miss a huge piece of the puzzle. Motion: It was m/s by Sullivan/Hosterman to approve the staff recommendation for Alternative B with the modifications as outlined in the staff report for the preferred land use and with the same circulation element to include the two alternatives identified as Transit Oriented Development at Hacienda Business Park and the Hybrid TOD/concentrated/disbursed land use. Council member Brozosky asked for clarification of the transit oriented development proposal, the number of units, etc. Community Development Director Iserson replied there are around 1 ,260 units. Hacienda presented its alternatives for the number of units and 1,260 was the lowest they could accept and the highest Council could accept. Staff based the units in the alternative on what Hacienda proposed for its specific plan. That fits within the 29,000 unit cap and all the commerciallofficelindustrialland uses within Hacienda now would remain. Councilmember Brozosky asked if anything left in the 1996 General Plan that has not been approved goes away. Mr. Iserson said no, it would stay. Council member Sullivan believed that what is left in the 1996 General Plan is roughly 27,500 units if that was all built. He said the difference is 1,500 and the 1,200 units in Hacienda would fit within that 1,500 units and is still within the cap. He reiterated that Council is not approving this project or number of units; it is running a traffic model to understand what these things do.