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BACKGROUND Pleasanton Station is a commercial building located at 30 W. Neal Street which received PUD development plan approval in 1981 to convert it from the former Southern Pacific railroad station to a mixed retail/office building. In 1990 the City approved a design review application to reconstruct the parking lot by allowing changes to the access, circulation, and landscaping for the Pleasanton Station parking lot. Haps restaurant is a long-time Pleasanton establishment located at 122 W. Neal Street which was remodeled in 1967 and then again in 1999. A conditional use permit for the sale of alcoholic beverages after 10:00 pm was also approved in 1999. The property has no rear or side public access, and refuse service and restaurant deliveries at the rear/eastern side of the restaurant have been via the Pleasanton Station parking lot. The Hap's property is owned by Mike Madden, and Mike Connors is the owner of the restaurant business. On September 5, 2000, the City Council approved PUD-81-28-4M, a major modification of the Pleasanton Station PUD Development Plan fora 7,865 square foot, two-story commercial/office building located at 55 West Angela Street. This new building is known as Railroad Square. The new Railroad Square building is located on was what formerly a portion of the Pleasanton Station parking lot, and the two buildings share parking on this lot. Mitch Pereira and Eric Hoff are the principal owners of both Pleasanton Station and Railroad Square, although the two buildings now exist on two separate parcels. PROPOSAL The proposed application is a modification of the PUD development plan to consider approval of an existing six-foot tall masonry wall with a gate that was constructed by Mr. Pereira along an approximately 30-foot portion of the property line that separates the Pleasanton Station property from the adjoining Hap's Restaurant property and along an approximately 12-foot portion of the property line that separates the Railroad Square property from the Hap's property. The wall is constructed of split-faced block and is a tan color. The gate leads from the east side/rear of the Hap's Restaurant property to the concrete pad located in front of the trash enclosure on the Railroad Square property. A chain link fence mostly covered with vines extends along the remaining portion of the property line between Pleasanton Station and Haps; that fence has existed for a number of years. Mr. Pereira proposed the wall, which is solely on the Pleasanton Station property, as part of the building permit review process for the new Railroad Square building, and City staff signed off the plans in the spring of 2006, thus approving the wall. Soon after, the wall was built. The wall, and the process the City used to approve it, was challenged by Mr. Madden, who believed that the correct approval process was not followed by staff in PUD-81-28-05M January 9, 2008 Page 2 of 11