City Council Agenda

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

7:00 p.m.

City Council Chamber

200 Old Bernal Avenue

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1 CALL TO ORDER

• Pledge of Allegiance
• Introductory remarks by Councilmember Cook-Kallio

2 AGENDA AMENDMENTS

3 CONSENT CALENDAR – Items listed on the consent calendar are considered routine in nature and may be enacted by one motion. If discussion is required, that particular item will be removed from the consent calendar and will be considered separately.

Administrative Services

1. Approve regular meeting minutes of February 19, 2008

(Regular Meeting Minutes )  (Special Meeting Minutes)

Finance

2. Accept the monthly disbursements and investment report for January 2008

3. Accept Second Quarter Financial Status Report fiscal year 2007-08 (Operating Budget)

Parks and Community Services

4. Approve a Short-Term Grazing Lease for 103 Acres of Open Space by the Golf Course with Al Spotorno to Comply with the Grazing & Resource Management Plan

Planning

5. Accept or appeal actions of the Zoning Administrator and Planning Commission

6. Public Hearing: PUD-81-28-05M, City of Pleasanton Consider an application for a major modification to an existing PUD development plan to consider whether an existing six-foot tall masonry wall along a portion of the westerly property line between Pleasanton Station and Hap’s Restaurant should be retained or removed. The property is located at 30 W. Neal Street. Zoning for the property is PUD-C-O (Planned Unit Development Commercial Office) District, Downtown Revitalization District, Core Area Overlay District.

(Attachment 01-05) (Attachment 07)

Public Works

7. Approve plans and specifications, review of bid and award of contract to John D. Baker Construction Company in the amount of $416,000 for traffic signal installation at the intersection of Bernal Avenue and I-680 freeway s/b off-ramp, CIP No. 005068, and completion of the traffic signal system at Vineyard Avenue and Pietronave Lane, CIP No. 075014

8. Approve a consultant agreement with Kimley-Horn & Associates in the amount of $111,684 to provide design and engineering services for the Santa Rita Road and Valley Avenue Widening Improvements, CIP No. 975039

9. Accept public improvements performed by Gateway Pacific Contractors, Inc. for the City's Turnout No. 6 project in the Vineyard Corridor Specific Plan area, CIP No. 011023-T.O.

10. Accept public improvements performed by O'Grady Paving, Inc. for Vineyard Avenue Median Streetscape Improvements, CIP No. 055031 and adopt a resolution designating the area on Vineyard Avenue 400 feet west and 250 feet east of Cereza Drive as a four-hour parking zone

11. Accept public improvements performed by DeSilva Gates Construction for Resurfacing of Various City Streets, CIP No. 075003

MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

12. 4 Public Comment from the audience regarding items not listed on the agenda – Comments are limited to 5 minutes, and you will be asked to state your name and city of residence

PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS

13. 5 (Aspects of this item are currently pending in the Alameda County Superior Court and a decision from the Court bearing on this item is anticipated to be received prior to March 4.  The item is being placed on the agenda as a placeholder so that the City Council could take action depending on the outcome of the court case.) Receive the City Clerk’s Certification of the Referendum Petition with respect to Ordinance No. 1961 approving the application of James Tong, Charter Properties (Oak Grove Development) for PUD plan approval, as filed under Case PUD-33 and considerer various options/resolutions concerning the petition including whether to rescind the ordinance or call for an election and, if an election is called, to adopt ballot language, request the County to consolidate the election with the State primary election on June 3, and establish dates for arguments/rebuttal arguments in favor of and in opposition to the referendum

14. 6 Public Hearing: PAP-110, Dennis Long, Appellant (PADR-1698, Scott Smith, Applicant) – Consider an appeal of the Planning Commission’s denial of an appeal of the Zoning Administrator’s approval of an application for administrative design review to construct an approximately 64-square-foot first-floor addition to the left side and an approximately 273-square-foot second-floor addition to the right side of the existing residence located at 3496 Whitehall Court. Zoning for the property is R-1-6,500 (Single-Family Residential) District 

(Attachment 01-02)  (Attachment 03)  (Attachment 04-05)

15. 7 Consider a status report on and additional funding for the Eastern Alameda County Conservation Strategy (Attachment 01-04)

16. 8 Review of Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Regional Housing Needs Analysis (RHNA) determination and schedule including commencement of the City Housing Element Update process (Attachment 01)

9 MATTERS INITIATED BY COUNCIL

10 COUNCIL REPORTS: Brief reports on conferences, seminars, and meetings attended by the Mayor and City Council

11 CLOSED SESSION: Conference with Legal Counsel – Existing Litigation, pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(a):

Jennifer Lin and Frederic Lin, Petitioners and Plaintiffs v. City Clerk of the City of Pleasanton, et al, Respondents and Defendants and Kay Ayala, et al, Real Parties in Interest and Defendants. County of Alameda, Case No. RG07361370

ADJOURNMENT