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PLANNING COMMISSION Pleasanton, California RESOLUTION NO. 1073 WHEREAS, the question of a policy on the development of Private Streets was discussed at the joint City Council-Planning Commission study session on June 15, 1970, at which time the Commission was requested to review and recommend a policy governing development of Private Streets, WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did accordingly under- take the review of such a policy to govern Private Streets, and after considerable deliberation and using as a general guideline a report from the Director of Public Works, took action on the matter. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Planning Commission recommends to City Council the adoption of a general guideline and policy relating to development of Private Streets, in accordance with the report submitted by the Director of Public Works, which reads as follows: 1. The City should exercise the same design and construction control of development whether it is public or private. Although some reduction in width, elimination of sidewal substitution of roll curb, valley gutters or ditches for standard vertical curb and gutter and other changes of this nature can very well be allowed, no compromise in structural design or reduction in capacity should be considered. 2. Each case will have to be judged separately using some general guidelines. There is too much variety to do otherwise. Some private streets will be little more than driveways which will never become public. Others may be close enough to a typical public street so that there is a strong possibility that they will become public some day. 3. There does not seem to be anything inherent. wrong with private streets if properly handled. We have driveways in large multiple, commercial and industrial developments that serve more people and are inherently more "public" than many small cul-de-sacs. 4. Private streets should be clearly distin- guishable from public streets in the eyes of the public, either by the physical treatment of the entrance or by appropriate signs, or both. 5. The size and extent of private utility systems should be limited. This will mean in most cases that public service easements will be taking over the private streets and the City will maintain the sewer and water systems therein up to the meter or service lateral to the buildings much the same as we now do in "standard" areas. The City would, therefore, own and control the hydrants.