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little support from the Committee to identify potential sites or paths that would benefit from funding for improvements. Council consensus was to direct staff to prepare a Council resolution illuminating the intent of the Council and directing the Pathway Committee to defer from mapping activities and to focus on identifying paths most in need of construction or maintenance. • Purissima Hills Water District Building Council had before them a proposal prepared by the Parks and Recreation Department for the adaptive re-use of the Water District Building for office space and storage for the department. Benefits and costs were discussed. Council was advised that the initial costs would be minimal and as funds became more available, structural upgrades and ADA improvements could be made. These would permit the use of the facility for classroom space, community meeting room and public viewing of the Town's historical exhibits. The Town's historical documents could be safely stored in the facility in the interim. Opened Public Comment Duffy Price, resident, expressed her support of providing a safe location to store the Town's historical documents. Council consensus was to approve the proposal for use of the building as a Parks and Recreation annex as outlined in the staff report. COUNCIL RECESSED AT 5:00 p.m. COUNCIL RECONVENED TO OPEN SESSION AT 5:20 p.m. DEVELOPMENT Council reviewed the current development standards and concurred that overall a balance had been achieved between the community's goals (rural environment) and residents development/property rights been achieved. Council consensus was that the MDA-MFA formula worked and they did not propose any change. Councilmember Kerr suggested that staff investigate new technologies that would have an environmental advantage for possible building/development credits. He referenced the new porous materials that were on the market that could be used for driveways and patios that would have an environmental benefit as one option. Planning Director Debbie Pedro distributed a memorandum on the draft Estate Home Ordinance that was currently under review by the Planning Commission. She reviewed the update with Council noting the key elements of the proposed ordinance that included the identification of an estate home as residences over 10,000 square feet excluding the basement; floor area formula for counting any area over 10,000 sq. feet twice; and incremental setback restriction imposed on the development based on the site of the estate home. 6 City Council Special Meeting Minutes August 24,2006