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THE CITY OF i "' iii -... N i ~I~r L~~S~4NTON® October 2, 2006 Jennifer Hosterman 2922 Chazdonnay Drive Pleasanton, CA 94566 Re: Requirement to Apply for a Conditional Use Permit to Keep Hawk Dear Ms. Hosterman: I am writing because a Pleasanton resident has contacted this office regarding your keeping of a hawk in a structure on your property at 2922 Chazdonnay Drive. Under the Pleasanton Municipal Code, you aze required to obtain a conditional use permit in order to keep a hawk at your property. Because there is no record that such a City permit has been obtained, if you aze in fact keeping hawk at your property, I have enclosed a conditional use permit application for you to complete and submit to the Planning Department with the information and fees indicated on the application. For your information, your home is located in a One Family Residential (R-1) district, where household pets such as cats and dogs aze allowed without permit. (See Municipal Code § 18.32.030.F.) However, other animals, including birds "kept in the open or in an accessory structure" require a conditional use permit. (See Municipal Code §§ 18.08.245 and 18.32.040.x.) Thus, if you do have a hawk living in an accessory structure on your property, you are required to obtain a conditional use permit. A conditional use permit is considered by the Planning Commission at a noticed public hearing. (See Chapter 18.124 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code.) When the Planning Commission considers such an application, commissioners will consider impacts on the neighborhood, including regulations related directly to birds, such as requirements that bird: (i) do not "cause damage or hazard to persons or property in the vicinity or to generate offensive noise, dust or odor"; (ii) aze not to run or fly at lazge or go on another person's property; and (iii) that the animal's premises must be clean and sanitary. (See Pleasanton Municipal Code § 7.36.010 et. seq.) I regret that if in your prior contact with the Building or Planning Departments you were given the impression that so long as your hawk's house met setback and height regulations for your neighborhood, no other City permits or entitlements were needed, as you already had the proper licenses and permits from the appropriate Federal and State agencies. P. O. Box 520, Pleasanton, CA 94566-0802 200 Old Bernal Avenue Planning & Community Development Building Inspection Utility Billing Business license 9131 931-~60U ~925i 931-~3ih3 ~925i 9315425 !9251 931-54-10 F.~x: 9 31- ~-t83 Fax: 9 31-54,'8 Fix: 931-5485 Fax: 9 31-i485