Pleasanton Weekly
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In a surprise move, the Pleasanton City Council voted 3-1 to skirt the multiple choices under consideration Tuesday night affecting the East Side planing process and instead ask voters to make the decision in a special advisory balloting on Nov. 3.
The option to seek a recommendation from voters came late in a three-hour council meeting on the East Side land-use issues. Mayor Jerry Thorne proposed going to voters and had the support of Councilwomen Karla Brown and Kathy Narum. Councilman Jerry Pentin voted against the proposal. Councilman Arne Olson, whose home backs on to the East Side site under consideration, had to recuse himself from the discussion and vote.
Thorne made his proposal after the council considered multiple options determining whether to proceed on the planning process now underway for development of the 1,100-acre East Side site by the East Pleasanton Specific Plan (EPSP) task force. In its most recent proposed plan, the city would allow the development of 1,300 residential units on the site, with 1.6 million square feet for non-residential uses by developers and landowners, and leaving another 759 acres as open space.