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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Nelson Fialho, City Manager Provided to the City Council After Distribution of Packet December16, 2014 /2`1 Date 1 Re: East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force Draft Dear Mayor Thorne, City Council Members Brown, Narum, Pentin and Olson and Mr. Fialho, As a member of the EPSP Task Force, representing the Mohr-Martin neighborhood since its inception in August 2, 2012, I have attended most of the scheduled meetings and desired to be full participant in the task force planning process and to adhere to the vision statement for the area including "land use should benefit the entire community" and "entice residents to want to visit and stay to enjoy its beauty and uniqueness". I have attended and been a member of other community planning meetings and commission meetings in the past and felt confident that I could understand and give input regarding the planning for East Pleasanton. Unfortunately, my experience with the EPSP Task Force process has not evolved as I had imagined. My hopes for the continuation of the future planning for the City of Pleasanton, with its safeguards and parameters of a growth management ordinance, urban growth boundary, and my commitment and those of my neighbors to continue to live in a medium sized community that would retain it's good schools, manageable traffic, sustainable resources and infrastructure, plan larger developments near mass transit and most importantly, be given serious consideration in the planning process for our town, have been regrettably deflated. It was apparent after the initial community outreach meetings where the public was invited to give their views on desirable land uses in East Pleasanton, that the driving force behind the EPSP development was not what we, as community members, had wanted there, such as fewer homes, more protected open space, bike trails, walking paths and recreational areas and a sustainable, phased development that could incorporate some of the RHNA numbers of units the future needs of our city. Instead there has been a continual march towards an East Pleasanton development that would defray the cost of the infrastructure, namely a very expensive regional road, El Charro, connecting to Stanley. The EPSP Preliminary Draft base plan is being presented to you as a document that received the majority of votes by task force members however it is a plan that many people in Pleasanton, including myself, would not endorse, primarily due to the high numbers of homes that are needed to fund a road that would ultimately lead to cut through traffic towards East Dublin. It has become increasingly apparent that my desires and my neighbor's preferences for the East Pleasanton area are not in the current 1300 "base plan" of housing units promoted by the developers and stake holders, as this large number of homes (double the size of Ruby Hills) do not "pencil out" in our cost benefit analysis. The significant number of homes in East Pleasanton, away from the main transportation arteries and the infringement on the urban growth boundary, threatens many of the previously supported constructs that helped eliminate a town that looked like Dublin and sprawl between our town and Livermore. Please do not view my vote to go forward on the EPSP EIR planning process as my giving credence