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Commission to take a look at all of the agreements, all of the time and energy that went into that from their predecessors, as well as all of the neighbors who are here, and adhere to those agreements. Amy Lofland read from a prepared statement as follows: "I'm also a member of the Ventana Hills Steering Committee and have been since its inception. I'd like to remind the members of the Planning Commission that many Southeastern neighborhoods and community members of Pleasanton worked in conjunction with the City at City-run workshops in 1991 and 1992 to help shape the final outcome of the North Sycamore Specific Plan and the Happy Valley Specific Plan. Contrary to some comments tonight, this was done part in part to mitigate concerns that new development could overtax existing neighborhoods with traffic it was not designed to carry. The North Sycamore Specific Plan and the Happy Valley Specific Plan provide for roads built and designed to handle this additional development traffic. Previous members of the City staff, Planning Commissioners, City Councilmembers, and various people within the community worked diligently together to reach agreement and create these specific plans. The City Council supported roads as structures in the workshop on November 27th which I was present at, only with the understanding that PUDs and specific plans prior to 2008 would be grandfathered in. You heard from an author of Measure PP tonight that having roads considered a structure was not part of Measure PP. The people of Pleasanton voted to protect the ridgelines; not to overtax existing neighborhoods with traffic from new developments. There are specific plans in place to assure this will not happen and they need to be followed. To decide that roads are a structure and are therefore held to the limitations of Measures PP and QQ would be contrary to the ongoing process and would put undue and unplanned traffic stress on existing neighborhoods that already have high traffic for the way the neighborhood streets were designed. It has been planned since 1992 to go out the East/West Collector which is Sycamore Creek Way. The years of City-sponsored neighborhood and community collaboration and planning need to be upheld. Basically, I'm reading it so I can have it in there, but this has been going on, and I can tell you I've been at this for 22 years. I don't want to put undue stress on any neighborhood, and that is why we worked so hard to get this done. And, think about it, if you go back 22 years, that's a lot of Planning Commission and Council." Raj Rajagopalan stated that he is not here to offend anybody or say anything wrong. He indicated that he understands traffic problems, and people do not want traffic going through their street and want it to go to the next street. He stated that he does not want traffic going through any street, and that's the way he would like to look at it. He inquired if this is part of the Greenbriar property and where the problem is, because that has always been a problem in this City. He added that since he bought a house from Greenbriar, there have been nothing but problems because Greenbriar never disclosed anything and lied about everything. He noted that the City also went for it because he spoke at meetings in 2004 and 2005 and suggested that signs be installed indicating that this would be a thru-street, just as they do in towns like Alamo and Danville. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 13, 2013 Page 18 of 35