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heads in the sand, ignoring this serious condition. She stated that she will give staff, and ask staff to provide a copy to the Commission, a list of all the documents and all the sites for all of the information on every school site size, land size, and current capacity. She added that the reason the District is not asking to build another school is because it has gotten itself into a $28,000,000 facility debt, and so as many houses are built, overburdening existing campuses will continue, resulting in negatively affecting the quality of life, not only at the campuses but throughout the community. Chair Blank stated that he has personally known the next speaker, Sherry Barclay, for many, many years and that they have not discussed this matter. He added that he did not know that Ms. Barclay was going to be at the meeting this evening. Sherry Barclay stated that what brought her here this evening is that she has also been attending some of the Task Force meetings and is concerned about the same thing that the other people have mentioned: the volume of housing intended to be put in this particular area. She stated that she lives in the Ironwood Village, the 55-and-older community that is still being completed, and previous to that, she lived in the Martin Avenue neighborhood for 22 years, so she is very familiar with that side of town. She indicated that what is being proposed here does not fit anything that goes over in that end of the town. She added that that other thing that was really surprising is that, for as long as she has lived here, Valley Avenue has one of the major traffic problems in this town, and yet a big multi-unit project has already been approved on the south side of Stanley Boulevard, and now another 1,000 to 1,700 housing units are being added, all coming out through Busch Road onto Valley Avenue and putting a lot more traffic in that area. She stated that her biggest concern is that she just thinks these numbers are way out of proportion for either the Valley Avenue, Stanley Boulevard, or her neighborhood, in general. She added that it goes without saying that the problem with the schools has been there for a long time. Sean Sowell stated that from a work-force affordable-housing point of view, he would like to ask that the Planning Commission look at Alternative 3 most closely because he thinks this one does really the best job of including more people in the community who have been excluded from the community due to the high cost of housing here in town. He stated that he already lives in Pleasanton and that his son already goes to school here and will start high school in the fall. He indicated that work force housing and moderately-priced housing for people in the community is a good thing, and he thinks Alternative 3 probably does the job best, although he is not sure that the particular sprinkling of the lower- versus the medium- and higher-density units is really the best way to do it. Mr. Sowell stated that in regard to this Alternative, he would like the Planning Commission to suggest to the Task Force to set aside a portion of the parcel to the north reserved for retail/office for some housing so the burden of housing is not restricted entirely on that southern portion of the plan area. He added that at the Housing Commission meeting a few weeks back, he had asked the Commission to look EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 22, 2013 Page 15 of 30