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1 7. In 2005 through 2007, it also became evident that the City Manager and other City staff 2 were involved in negotiations with various developers over the location and extension of roads 3 associated with proposed developments. Thus the location of roadways was one of the areas we 4 sought to regulate when we drafted Measure PP. 8. In 2006, I discussed in a Planning Commission meeting that the City Manager was 5 engaged in private negotiations with the developer over the proposed Oak Grove project. Other 6 commissioners raised similar concerns, including concerns about development of the Southeast 7 Hills. These concerns are indicated in the Planning Commission minutes. Staff would not 8 agendize the Southeast Hills situation for the full commission. We were told by the City 9 Attorney that since those negotiations were private, no public disclosure was required. This led 10 those of us drafting the initiative to believe we needed to place strict limitations on all hillside I I construction activities, including roadways, to preclude such private negotiations from occurring. 12 9. I was involved extensively in drafting Measure PP. My initial model for the initiative 13 was the City of San Juan Capistrano's ordinance regulating hillside development. That 14 ordinance included a specific exception for arterial roadways identified in that city's general 15 plan's circulation element. We who were drafting the measure specifically decided not to 16 include a similar exception in the measure we were drafting. 17 10. Those of us drafting Measure PP, and Pleasanton residents generally, were very aware of 18 roadways in the hillside area that had been approved on steep hillsides. As a resident of Pleasanton, I am very aware that the very visible and dangerously steep Santos Ranch Road 19 traveling up the side of Pleasanton Ridge was closed many years ago, before I moved to 20 Pleasanton, after it claimed several lives. 1 know that after a car with teenagers lost its brakes 21 traveling down Santos Ranch Road on December 18, 1975 and crashed into a car traveling on 22 Foothill Road, City Councilmember Roger McLain worked to have it permanently closed to the 23 public. Santos Ranch Road leading to the so-called "Hayward Hotel" atop Pleasanton Ridge is 24 both an eyesore and a safety hazard. Preventing similar mistakes was very much on our minds 25 as we drafted Measure PP. 26 / / / / / / 27 / / / / / / 28 2 29 DECLARATION OF ANNE Fox RE.DRAFTING OF MEASURE PP 30