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MINUTES of THE MEETING of THE CITY COUNCIL January 15, 1980 CALL TO OPdDER ~Iayor Frank Brandes, Jr., called the Adjourned Regular Meeting of the City Council to order at 7:30 P.M. ROLL CALL Deputy City Clerk Doris George called the roll which is recorded as follows: Councilmembers Butler, Kephart, Mercer, Wood, and Mayor Brandes were present. Mr. Brox..m, City Manager, Mr. Walker, Assistant City ~anager, Mr. Levine,. City Attorney, I{r. Campbell, Director of Public Works and Utilities, Mr. Harris, Director of Plan- ning and Community Development, and Mr. Swift, Assistant Planner, were present. REVIEW SESSION - ~P ALLOCATIONS I<ayor Brandes stated that a review session had been held last night by Council to review eight of the applicants for Residential Allocation Program allocations and that the meeting tonight was for the purpose of reviewing the remaining eight applicants and t~ take public testimony from the developers regarding their pro- jects and to allow Council to ask any questions they might have. Mayor Brandes advised that a decision on the P~P allocation would be made by Council at their meeting of January 22, 1980. Tract 79-15 Rousseau, Tract 3297 Mr. George Oakes, representing the Oliver Rousseau Industries Corporation, stated that Tract 3297 had been approved and was totally constructed except for 17 homes. He stated he felt his application should receive higher points for its proximity to the Freeway, design, landscaping, density and street improvements. He stated that density had been lowered at the request of the City. Mr. Oakes stated he did not feel this project should be scored lower this year than last year. He stated that Tract 3297 should be allowed to be completed in this year's RAP allocation. The project was designed and redesigned to meet City Council architectural and other requirements. Nearly a quarter of the total number of units were eliminated at the Council's request. Street work has been completed for eight years, 94 units are approved and built, utility connections for the remaining units are in place, and the project must maintain itself on a fraction of the budget it should have due to unconstructed units. The project has the same desirable features under the RAP as it did last year, should continue to be ranked as the top multiple project in the DSRSD area, and should be given significant weight for improvements that have been in place for years. Mr. Oakes stated that in 1972, the Oliver Rousseau Industries Corporation elected to forego further litigation and to agree with the City and other developers to an orderly succession of development approvals. The City covenanted at that time in the 1972 settlement agreement to deal in good faith with all parties to the agree- ment. The principal criterion used in establishing the priority lists was the position of each developer in terms of development approvals already received and front end improvements already in the ground. About $500,000 in capital improve- ments, in addition to land value, has been in the ground for years. The intent of the parties in adopting the priority lists was to establish an orderly mechanism for recognizing these tremendous front-end costs incurred before 1972. Developers new to Pleasanton, in the Sunol area, are consistently ranked higher than priority