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said in 2008: do not build in the hills. He added that it is very simple and people are trying to make it complex. Kay Ayala thanked the Planning Commission and the staff for taking this extra time with this issue because of its importance in the community. She stated that she is sure the Council will read the staff report and the Minutes to see how diligent all the Commissioners have been in analyzing all of the data because it is complicated. She indicated that she agrees with staff's recommendations with one exception: she does not understand staff's resistance to an inventory of the City ridgelines. She encouraged the Commission to send a recommendation to the Council that includes ridgelines inventory. Ms. Ayala stated that there were three signers on Measure PP Initiative, and Anne Fox was not a signer on the Initiative. She noted that this whole thing has been about trust, and Ms. Cindy McGovern does not trust that in the future, Policy 21 of the General Plan would be adhered to: "Preserve scenic hillside and ridge views of Pleasanton Main and Southeast Hill Ridges." She stated that the reason Ms. McGovern does not trust that it would be adhered to is because Policy 21 existed when Oak Grove was first approved; the General Plan had a policy that would protect the ridgelines, and in addition to that, it said that an ordinance is to be done to protect the ridgelines before developing in the hills, and none of that was done. She indicated that she then understands why Ms. McGovern does not trust Policy 21. She added that the residents of Ventana Hills and surrounding areas do not trust either, and with good reason, since they were promised since the early 1990's when the Council approved Bridle Creek and Sycamore Heights that the road connection for additional development up in the hills would be through the North Sycamore Specific Plan area. She noted that she was on the Council at that time, and she trusted the information staff was giving them then that those road connections could be made, because she empathized with the Ventana Hills people at that time. She reiterated that they were promised since the early 1990's and these promises made by multiple Council since the early 1990's have to be kept. With respect to the "road" issue, Ms. Ayala stated that, as a signer of the Initiative, she and some others were in the City Manager's office years and years ago, and the City Manager had asked what the intent of Measure PP was regarding roads to which she had answered that the intent was to protect the ridges from housing and commercial structures. She stated that if they we wanted roads in there, they would have put the word "road' in there. She addressed the Commission that its task is not to figure out what the Municipal Code says but to look at the intent of Measure PP, arid its intent is not to put a road across a ridgeline like Oak Grove had, which road would not even have been considered if Policy 21 were adhered to. She noted that the connection to Lund Ranch II is not a road across a ridgeline, but a connection to an existing ranch road there that was promised to the people of Ventana Hills by at least four Councils previous to the present one. Ms. Ayala stated that when they were collecting signatures for months, not one person asked her if this Initiative was for roads. She noted that if people collecting signatures PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 13, 2013 Page 15 of 35