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• • awf1 i Preserve Area' '4 •4 `Committee Dear Mayor and City Council: The Preserve Area Ridgelands Committee and the PARC Fund oppose the proposed Pleasanton Municipal Code amendments that were approved by three members of the city council at the last city council meeting (first reading) and requests that the City Council rescind its approval. PARC has been working for the last 40 years in the Tri-Valley with the primary purpose to preserve ridgelands, including keep roadways off of ridgetops and hillsides, beginning with the Scenic Highway proposal from Oakland to Pleasanton, and most recently with Alameda County Measure D and Pleasanton city Measure PP. The City of Pleasanton is putting forth a municipal code amendment to accomplish among other things: • allow roadways to be constructed on slopes of 25% or greater and within 100 feet of a ridgeline • re-define and restrict applicability of hillside regulations to certain limited sections of a ridgeline • expand the exemption from hillside development restrictions to more than the voter approved exception of"Exempt from this policy are housing developments of 10 or fewer housing units on a single property that was as of January 1, 2007 a "legal parcel" pursuant to the California Subdivision Map law. We respectfully request that the City Council rescind its approval on the following grounds: 1) violates Elections Code, 2) inconsistent with Specific Plan 3), inconsistent with General Plan, 4) violates CEQA, and 5) the Pleasanton Municipal Code chapter conflicts with original definitions of terms in force when voters enacted Measure PP (structure, ridge, ridgeline, infrastructure, and slope). Steep Roads on Landslides, Geologically Unstable Terrain, of Slopes in Excess of 25% A recent Planning Commission meeting discussed a potential development' accessing Santos Ranch Road, a dangerously steep road that was closed in the 1970s. According to the minutes, during this meeting, a City Councilmember that voted to in favor of this amendment, as a Planning Commissioner stated: "...he cannot envision installing a 15-percent grade road...." The Community Development director also stated:"....indicated that the City would have significant concerns about any development that would be accessed off a road that steep." The Planning Commission Minutes/Pleasanton-12/8/2010