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SJEPIPA. ThL aagf iIa Provided tr.) the City Council ,After Distribution of Packet Date Natalie Amos, Associate Planner Pleasanton Planning Commission 200 Old Bernal Road Pleasanton, CA 94566 -0802 6600 Kings Crown East San Antonio, TX 78233 June 2, 2013 Dear Natalie, We received the first notice of PUD- 84 -07M entitled Tranquil Message Center Application on April 30, 2013. We called by telephone on May 1, 2013 and left a message in which we requested an opportunity to discuss the application. We appreciate your return call on or about May 3, 2013 in which you answered our many questions and some of our concerns. On May 27, 2013 we received the notice of the City Council's hearing on PUD- 84- 04 -07M on June 4, 2013. We were finally able to access the staff report on this application on June 1, 2013. We live in our town home part time and when we are there we frequently observe activity in the Meadow Plaza Shopping Center from our home located directly across Santa Rita Road. We have the following comments: We express concern regarding the impact of the proposed petition on children that frequent the area both while walking to and from school and while visiting the family oriented food establishments in adjacent space in the Meadow Plaza Center. Children are likely to be in the area more frequently when the food market is operational. It is true that the school is about the same straight line distance from the petitioner's old and new locations. However, the school entrance is much closer to the new location. The path some students take on the way to and from the school is through the parkin;; lot of the shopping center. The old location is on the west side of the Santa Road away from the housing area while the new location is in the heart of a housing area on the east side of Santa Rita Road. An additional concern is the potential impact of the business on traffic. The revitalization of the shopping center will have a major impact on access to Santa Rita Road. The existing residential area across Santa Rita Road already has been restricted in mobility by changes imposed on permitted turns. The proposed activity is likely to be by appointment with patrons desiring be on time. These situations invite infraction of traffic rules. Enforcement of compliance with traffic rules for gaining access to and from Meadow Plaza Shopping Center pose unrealistic implications. We are also concerned about the open ended size of the planned unit. The current wording of the application is "four or more massage technicians provide massage services at any one time as a conditionally permitted use." We suggest that a maximum number should be establisied based on the size of the facility. John and Ernestine Vanderveen Las Positas Garden Homes