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Hacienda has the potential under its PUD's for a total of approximately 12.5 million square feet of development. At present, approximately 11.5 million sq. ft. are developed, which includes mainly commercial, office, R&D, and industrial uses as well as 1,530 residential units, 602 hotel rooms, Hart Middle School, and the BART station. Furthermore, in addition to undeveloped sites, some sites are underdeveloped in terms of their floor area ratio (FAR) potential and their ability to physically accommodate increased development. Hacienda stakeholders see opportunities to add residential and/or mixed use development, within the constraints of the voter-approved housing cap, to the park. They believe that this would be a way of providing employee housing and of creating an improved, more accessible "lifestyle" environment for the park where residents could live, work, and shop in a walkable community with convenient access to BART and other public transit. Some stakeholders maintain that this reflects a national trend in the evolution of business parks that could be accomplished in, and tailored to, Hacienda. Three major new development proposals have recently been submitted to the City as preliminary applications. Two of these are for residential developments on portions of the former Shaklee site and include a 130-unit townhouse development and an 80-unit affordable housing development proposed on the W.P. Carey property directly across Owens Drive from the BART station, and a 240-unit apartment development by BRE on the other side of the Shaklee office building at the corner of Gibraltar Drive and Hacienda Drive. A third proposal is for the CarrAmerica site and includes three additional office buildings totaling 480,270 sq. ft. and a five-story, 130-room, approximately 93,000 sq. ft. hotel with 10,000 sq. ft. of ground floor retail. The two residential projects would require a General Plan amendment as well as a PUD modification, whereas the Carr proposal would require only a PUD modification. The applicants for these proposals would like to receive collective feedback from the Planning Commission and City Council regarding these proposals and have requested that this occur while the City and Hacienda representatives are working on a new Hacienda plan. During discussions of Hacienda held prior to and as part of the General Plan workshops, the City Council directed that a Specific Plan be prepared to address changes to the park. The Council determined that a Specific Plan would be the appropriate planning vehicle to enable the addition of residential/ mixed use development on certain sites to take advantage of their proximity to the BART station by creating a more walkable community. As a result, the draft General Plan Land Use Element identifies Hacienda as a Specific Plan Area on the land use map and contains policies and programs that anticipate a Specific Plan. Also as part of the General Plan Land Use Element review, the Council unofficially allocated the remaining dwelling units under the Housing Cap to areas of the city with remaining development potential. Hacienda was allocated 333 units under the preferred plan and 1,271 units under one of the alternative scenarios. Both options can be accommodated within the City's approved housing cap. Page 2 of 13