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ATTACHMENT 2 DRAFT P13-1858, City of Pleasanton, East Pleasanton Specific Plan Consideration of a Draft Preferred Land Use and Circulation Plan for the purposes of preparing an Environmental Impact Report and a Draft Specific Plan. Brian Dolan stated that he, Wayne Rasmussen of Rasmussen Planning, Inc., Project Consultant, and Janice Stern would present the staff report. Mr. Dolan stated that the purpose of tonight's meeting is to get a recommendation from the Planning Commission on the work that the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force has done to date. He indicated that the Task Force started in August 2012 and has met 11 times. He indicated that the Task Force has been going through a process and that it is at the point where the analysis of the alternatives that it has come up with in the Environmental Impact Report has to be continued in a more detailed way so it can dig a little deeper into some of the areas that it has been exploring to provide more information for the public and the Commission, and for the City Council as decision makers. Mr. Dolan stated that the Task Force has been exploring a number of alternatives, and at its last meeting, the Task Force was able to get a majority of its members to agree to one alternative which, for the purposes of CEQA, would be referred to as the Preferred Plan. He indicated that he would like to talk a little bit more about what that really means, but before doing that, he would like to go through the process and the immediate time line as the Task Force moves forward and how tonight fits into the overall process. Mr. Dolan then described the process: • The Task Force started with Background Information-Gathering, gathering data to try and educate the Task Force about the site and the various issues that everyone involved in the planning for this planning area is faced with. • The Task Force had an Opportunities and Constraints Analysis which really started to dig in at a fairly conceptual or broader level, exactly what are the things about this particular part of town that prevent opportunities for connectivity, view preservation, how much land is really being dealt with, and what are the potential connection points; all the things about the physical part of the land and the regulatory climate that limit those choices such as soil conditions, land ownership, property owner intentions, other regulatory things being some of the restrictions on the land because of its proximity to the airport and those kinds of things, and the railroad that is obviously a big constraint that the Commission considered the last time this was before the Commission. • The Task Force went through a Visioning exercise and was asked to try and identify what is it that it really wants to see out there. The Task Force spent a number of meetings talking about that and trying to narrow that focus as much as it could, dealing in this broader dialogue that it had. DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 9/25/2013 Page 1 of 28