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MINUTES CITY OF PLEASANTON JOINT CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP August 27, 2008 CALL TO ORDER Vice Mayor Thorne called the joint workshop to order at 6:30 p.m. Roll Call City Council Present: Councilmembers Cook-Kallio, McGovern, Sullivan, Vice Mayor Thorne Absent: Mayor Hosterman Planning Commission Present: Commissioners Fox, Narum, O'Connor, Olson, Pearce, Chair Blank Absent: None Review and Discuss Options for the Hacienda Planning Process Special Projects Manager Jerry Iserson gave the staff report and stated direction from the Council and the Commission would be used to move forward on the vision for parts of the Hacienda Business Park. He noted that a presentation had been given two years ago on ways to intensify the Hacienda Business Park enable residential and potential mixed use development on certain sites, and the concept of transit-oriented development. Council directed staff continue with efforts to prepare a specific plan to address development options and to identify issues relating to changes to the park and said the draft General Plan land use map would identify Hacienda as a mixed use area and as a specific plan area. Since that time, staff has received preliminary development applications from the CarrAmerica property owners and two of the former Shaklee sites; one of which was W.P. Kerry who submitted a proposal for 130 townhomes and 80 affordable units on a separate portion of the site, BRE Development submitting a 240-unit apartment development, and CarrAmerica submitted a proposal that would also add three office buildings, totaling 480,000 square feet, a 130-room hotel and 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail. Some of the stakeholders have suggested modifying and updating the Hacienda PUD and design guidelines versus doing a specific plan effort, and then go back to update the PUD. In addition the applicants would like all three applications to be processed concurrently. However, CarrAmerica would not need a General Plan Amendment and would like their application considered outside of that process, unlike the other two developments. Mr. Iserson further discussed Hacienda's development guidelines in place, stating there is 11.5 million square feet of development in the park, 1,530 residential units and 900,000 square feet of retail, with the potential for an additional 1 million square feet including the square footage of residential. He said much of the infrastructure is in place already and there are still some undeveloped sites which could accommodate infill development. He discussed transit-oriented development which includes mixed use, higher densities, pedestrian linkages and walkability, public spaces and amenities, employment intensities, and conveniences to transit and diversity of development. He displayed components often seen such as on-street parking by retail, ground floor retail with residential above or behind, design