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Karen Diaz Subject: FW: PUD-87 and P13-1981 Sares Regis/E&S Ring Public Hearing Original Message From: Bill Buecker Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 9:26 AM To: Shweta Bonn Cc: Buecker Bill Subject: re: PUD-87 and P13-1981 Sares Regis/E&S Ring Public Hearing Shweta, In the past anytime the above stated property and the Kiewit property have come up for discussion at the Planning Commission and at the City Council, I have ra'..sed concerns in emails to Associate Planners such as yourself. When I read in the newspaper about the 'glowing' recommendation the Planning Commission gave to the developers at the Planning Meeting I wasn't surprised. All they cared about was how the site was going to look, the buildings and their facade and how the store properties were going to enhance the revenue to the City. Nowhere in the output of the meeting did the Planning Commission address the additional traffic from that site - the apartments and their residents and the customers to the store operators at that site. The added traffic - cars and heavy-weighted trucks on Valley Ave going to Santa Rita and vice versa. My wife and I are upset that traffic and its consequences (road noise and boom boxes, etc) are never mentioned or addressed or mitigated. When we first moved in that home we were told that heavy trucks were not going to use Valley Ave due to their noise. Well guess what, they do. Also when the Kiewit property gets developed we are going to face an even larger problem since that site is larger than the Bernal/Stanley property and will have more apartment units thus more car and truck traffic and noise. The early morning (8am to 9am) traffic heading west on Valley to Santa Rita is sometimes backed up to Quarry Lane. So with the light at that intersection, the traffic acceleration noise is above decibel readings aid diesel trucks with their exhaust stacks sticking above the sound wall spewing exhaust smoke and its associated noise are unbearable. My other concern is as more apartment units are being added to this side of town (Kiewit property eventually) there will be an increase in home break- ins and property crimes. Are there enough police patrols to handle this increase? Nothing was mentioned in reporting about the additional students and what schools they are going to attend. Can the schools handle the additional load? Another point is that school age children using their bikes to go to and from school - safety along a busy thoroughfare. The worst downside effect of all of this with so many apartment units will be loss of property value. Who would live around so many apartments and the traffic that comes of it? Sound walls do nothing to mitigate the noise. This eastern section of Pleasanton has never had the attention and really good planning that shows in other sections of Pleasanton. There is no 'beauty' to this section of Valley Ave as is Valley Ave at its western end. Now with apartment units going three stories in the air, we will never have a beautiful street. Vegetation is sometimes kept up and if trees die, they are never replaced. The idea is to plant to make it look pretty and hope the vegetation 1