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BACKGROUND The City Council approved the Vineyard Avenue Specific Plan in 2003, with one of the specific items providing that the "Old" Vineyard Avenue roadway be converted to a shared multi-use trail. The improvements will consist of a 12- foot wide paved surface for pedestrians, bicycles, and utility, emergency, and maintenance vehicle access. The other side of the trail will consist of a 10-foot wide area for equestrians created by pulverizing the existing road. The limits of the Old Vineyard Trail as contemplated in the specific plan are from Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area at the west end to Ruby Hills Trail Head at the east end. Construction has been divided into three phases due to funding. Phase 1 is the center section from Vineyard Terrace at the west end to Mingoia Street at the east end. Phase 2 limits are from the Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area eastward to Vineyard Terrace. Phase 3 is from Mingoia Street/Heinz Ranch Road eastward to the Ruby Hills Trail Head. Funding was allocated for Phase 1 in the Capital Improvement Program in 2013/14. On August 26, 2013, staff presented the conceptual trail plan to the Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Trails (BPT) Committee. The purpose of the presentation was to re-introduce this project that had been in the planning stages for several years, and to let the committee know that construction design was beginning. Staff stated its desire to receive comments from the Committee regarding the design, and to receive public comments. One comment was to extend the easterly limits of phase 1 from Mingoia Street/Heinz Ranch Road to Machado Place if funding allowed. This was incorporated into the plans as an Additive Alternate Bid item to be recommended for award if the budget allowed. On December 16, 2013, staff presented 50% design drawings to the BPT Committee. At the meeting members of the public raised concern regarding the construction of the eastern part of the trail and the closure Old Vineyard Avenue from Mingoia/Heinz Ranch to Machado. They expressed concern that closing this section of roadway would require all traffic entering and exiting their housing development to use Vineyard Avenue at the intersection of Safreno Way. They wanted to have the option of using Safreno Way or Machado Place as it the current condition. The committee members expressed a desire to hear from Traffic Engineering regarding these concerns when the final plans were prepared. On April 14, 2014, a petition was received from the residents who live on the eastern end of the proposed trail project opposing closure of Old Vineyard Avenue to vehicular traffic between Mingoia/Heinz and Machado Place stating the same concerns expressed at the BPT Committee meeting. On April 28, 2014, staff presented the 100% plans to the BPT Committee. The plans as presented included converting Vineyard Avenue between Mingoia/Heinz and Machado Place to a trail as called out in the Specific Plan. The report and presentation included the following comment from the City's Traffic Engineer. As part of the Vineyard Avenue Specific Plan and the Update to the General Plan, the City of Pleasanton Traffic Engineering Division reviewed the closure of Page 2 of 4