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Maria Hoey <br /> Subject: P13-1858, East Pleasanton Specific Plan -Questions and Concerns <br /> From: Ashish Ahluwalia <br /> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:31 PM <br /> To: Janice Stern <br /> Cc: Mayor and City Council <br /> Subject: P13-1858, East Pleasanton Specific Plan - Questions and Concerns <br /> Hello Janice, <br /> Me and my wife Gowri Kamarthy are resident of Ironwood community at 1119 Baur Ct. <br /> We are writing to you to express our serious concern about the proposed plan. <br /> 1. It seems that a our area is being allocated a disproportionately high percentage of multi-unit and low income <br /> housing.Why is this not being distributed to other areas in Pleasanton? <br /> We already of good share of senior apartments and senior home very close to our community. This should be <br /> considered in your calculations to meet state government requirements and calculating our share of these types <br /> of homes. <br /> 2. Can you point me to specifics of the law that requires the city to meet minimum low income housing <br /> requirements?What is the criteria that is used to calculate number of units? <br /> 3. Has the city considered existing open land that may have been zoned for other purposes such as retail or <br /> industrial and tried to allocate some housing there? <br /> I would like a copy of entire Pleasanton city with open land and its zoning identified. <br /> 4. We have serious concerns about the traffic. As I recall for the Ironwood community, the road access to Mohr <br /> avenue was blocked for about 100 homes as this would cause a traffic problem for people residing near or <br /> alongside Mohr/ Martin/ Kamp and other internal roads. Considering that almost 1800 homes are being <br /> considered in the plan, traffic on Busch Road, Valley Ave, Stanley Blvd and Santa Rita Road is a major concern. <br /> What is city planning to do address this concern. <br /> 5. Schools -All Elementary, Middle and High Schools are already packed. My son tells me that a middle school <br /> teacher is given $60/year for her class to manage their expenses.With budget so tight, how many additional kids <br /> will be added in our school system and what is the plan to accomodate them?Where will budget come from? How <br /> will this impact quality of education in Pleasanton? <br /> 6. School related traffic: I don't know if you have seen the traffic during peak school hours. Valley Ave, Stanley and <br /> Santa Rita are almost like parking lots. With 1800 more homes it will only get worse.What is city planning to do, <br /> to address this? <br /> 7. We find it odd that single family homes are being built alongside Stanely(Stanely& El Charro and Stanely and <br /> Valley). In order preserve the neighborhood appearance and maintain the value of our properties, it would make <br /> sense to built multi unit homes along side these streets and intersections and build only single family homes along <br /> Busch road.Why is this not being considered? <br /> Awaiting your prompt reply. <br /> Ashish Ahluwalia &Gown Kamarthy <br /> 1 <br />