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DRAFT noontime hour, which is the peak for weekends, like the PM peak hour in the weekend evening. She indicated that it is not a right or wrong thing; it is just what it will be like. In that respect, she stated that she just wants to acknowledge that the community has a valid concern about traffic. She again asked Mr. Tassano if she got that right. Mr. Tassano said yes. He stated that he thinks what the Planning Commission and the public want to do is to get a real sense of this large vacant piece of land and the traffic that it is going to add. He noted that he gets asked all the time, for example, about what the traffic going to look like or on weekends. He indicated that he had to drive out here on a Saturday to see what it looked like, and the easiest tool to use is to try and add some of that volume and say this is what it looks like now, and everybody knows what it looks like at 8:00 a.m. when school is going into Hacienda , or at 5:00 p.m. when everyone is going out of there. He noted that this is something that is going to be more typical when this is completely built out, and just to qualify the two and to be fair, some of the congestion at Santa Rita Road and Valley Avenue is due to the fact that that level of service is failing. He further noted that there are improvements that are planned, and as soon as the City Council approves constructing those, a lot of that congestion will go away. He added that what looks really bad right now would not be so bad Santa Rita Road and Valley Avenue were not backed up all the way down past Busch Road. He stated that everyone that drives down that road, sees that every day, and that is because of an intersection failure and not because that volume is on the roadways. He pointed out that the volume question is right when one stands and look at the side of the street, and that is the number of cars that should be expected there. Commissioner O'Connor asked Mr. Tassano if he is talking about a development or a developer funding most of the intersection improvement when he said the Council has to approve the construction. Mr. Tassano replied that the improvement for Santa Rita Road at Valley Avenue is actually already approved and in the City's Traffic Improvement Fees. He noted that every developer pays for the improvements identified in the Traffic Impact Fees, and all the developers have already paid for the improvement at that intersection. Commissioner Allen then inquired what can be done about this. She noted that everyone wants to come up with an option that pays for itself and has the minimal number of units possible, so she was looking at the question of what it means for every single-family home that might be reduced against the 1,759 of the Preferred Plan. She indicated that she just wants to confirm her understanding that for every house unit that is reduced against the 1,759 total units, there will be creative financing options or tighter assumptions that might not be as conservative. She noted that the other side might get some costs that are not expected but it would save about ten trips a day for a single-family home, and six trips a day for a multi-family home. Mr. Tassano confirmed that there will be fewer trips but he cannot say where there will be some savings. DRAFT EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, 9/25/2013 Page 21 of 28