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City would be adding 22,000 more jobs. Regarding growth management program and concepts she felt the section had been gutted and said major changes were being made to the growth management policies. Regarding reservation of units, she confirmed growth management was being kept at 350 per year. She questioned why the City should not monitor its residential or commercial development against the City's infrastructure. Mr. Iserson said the City has not been developing units up to the 350 per year. Councilmember McGovern said the City was close to build-out, felt everything built would have a major impact on existing infrastructure and she did not want to get out of touch with what some of the developments were doing to parts of the community. She wanted to look at infrastructure, impacts on schools and traffic conditions on I-680 and I-580 and what would be needed. City Manager Fialho felt staff could rework the language, said the City has an ordinance in place which is a legislative directive and what the growth management report did was provide a report to the Council annually of what the growth management allocation was per year. If Council wishes to retain this report annually, staff proposed that the language not be removed from the General Plan. Councilmember Sullivan felt the growth management ordinance and 350 cap per year was still in place, but what staff was indicating is that the report was simply not being produced every year and confirmed it was last seen in 2003. Mr. Iserson also said the Program 14.4 was a very old policy written before the growth management ordinance was updated and had previously allowed up to 650 per year, which was reduced through the ordinance update down to 350 units. Mayor Hosterman questioned how others felt, and Councilmember Sullivan felt nothing was being changed substantially to what the City was already doing except for the report not being produced. Councilmember McGovern did not feel a large report needed to be produced, but voiced concern the City would get totally out of control with the types of development coming forward. Councilmember Cook-Kallio confirmed the report had simply not been re-produced since 2003 and was a document that looked at city services, population growth, commercial, industrial growth and service needs and analyzed whether the proper amount of development versus services were in place. She confirmed with the City Manager that the growth management ordinance limits the amount of housing units that can be built in a year which the City has been well under, and if the Council wanted a report, it could ask for one to be prepared. Councilmember McGovern asked if preservation of historic buildings wording had been removed. She said many people seem to believe additional density is okay in some of the neighborhoods, but to cover all downtown land and taking away larger yards changes the character, and confirmed that residents downtown worked on the 2002 Downtown Specific Plan, where they looked at all issues, density in residential neighborhoods and there was a suggestion to look at down zoning some of the multi-family residential properties. The consensus was not to do that as people wanted to retain the options for higher density in the downtown. She questioned if the City would have a historic ordinance to help preserve some of the downtown historic areas, and Mr. Iserson said this was on the Council's priority list and staff could focus attention on this in the upcoming year. She referred to the Ridge lands Preserve and the remaining agricultural open space, and she asked if this counted the southeast hills. City Council Minutes 14 August 21, 2007