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housing units should be transit-oriented with easy access to mass-transit systems. East Pleasanton does not meet this criteria, thus questioning over 1700 housing units and the intensity of development envisioned by the preferred plan. -- We ask the city to consider the Auf De Mar site when planning for the EPSP. (4) We ask City Council members to continue the City's program of controlled and balanced growth so that East Pleasanton will not be flooded with an inordinate amount of new houses over a short period time. In order to meet the expected infrastructure costs, developers will be seeking a glut of housing approvals right up front. Again, what other options can reduce the infrastructure costs that are driving the developers/land owners to increase the number of housing units? (5) We would like to see an option where the Operations Service Center (OSC) is moved so the new development can be better blended with existing homes. (6) We hope that as our elected representatives, you will continue to fight to maintain local control in our City planning. We desire a pushback on RHNA and The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and its One Bay Area decentralized planning. We don't want Pleasanton planned by planners in Oakland! We ask that land is not rezoned for housing until it is required (Do not rezone the planned 2022-2030 land at this time). At some point ABAG/RHNA may be deemed invalid as a result of lawsuits? (7) Moving forward we are requesting to have a group of our residents meet individually with the City Council members to further discuss how we can decrease the impacts this will have on our community (such as decreasing infrastructure costs, other sites in Pleasanton to satisfy RHNA numbers, proposing a Bond, ...) (8) Impact on schools. Although the future of schools are being management by Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD), city council could have a big say on the impact by controlling the growth of our City, studying every new development being proposed, and determining the impact on our schools and quality of education. We have a concern that the current council pushing for jobs could result in even higher housing unit requirements in our already over-impacted city (note the recent article on Pleasanton Weekly indicating more jobs would mean additional housing requirement). If more jobs results in increased RHNA requirements, how do you balance the increase in revenue from these jobs to the decrease in property tax revenues as the Pleasanton housing loses equity if the new housing is not managed correctly? We appreciate your consideration of the above issues. Your actions and vision are essential to keep our Pleasanton beautiful so that our next generations will all be proud of!! Thank you. Sincerely yours, Ganping Ju, Ph.D and Feng Nie, MBA