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LAND USE • The proposed retail site is outside plan area for services; the center should be neighborhood sewing • The plan should include a school and athletic park (for cricket,lacrosse, and other sports) • Put in a sports field on the Ktewit property since kids shouldn't be digging in the bad soil on that site SC -{ OOLS • Demographic report is incorrect in saying no need for high school • The school district has been irresponsible with money, and will support plan because of additional money that it will come to the district, but the funds will not actually go towards students • How have the 4-story apartments on W. Las Positas Boulevard factored into school projections? • The proposed school site should not be next to quarryfZ„ • 1,300 students to come from 1,300 units doesn't make sense (n • Assuming declining birth rates in the past is disastrous since the City is repopulating with younger FW' families O, • General Plan requires a maximum of 600 students at elementary schools, 1,000 students at middle schools, and 2,000 students at high schools with a 10%margin, and currently every Pleasanton aO1 school exceeds this maximum � • We need an additional high school • The school site is in the airport zone {m, rm • Will the proposed plan result in Pleasanton children being bussed to Dublin because of school overcrowding in Pleasanton? Z• • The plan indicates a sports field OR a school is guaranteed. A middle or high school should be • Schools drive quality of life • Alisal Elementary has always been out of compliance with enrollment targets in the General Plan • The school district has not yet felt the impact of the approved 1,600 units on schools Fz • Declining enrollment is hard to believe and if the report is wrong in this aspect,all elementary '< schools will exceed 1,000 students • Odd that demographic study fmds no new middle or high school needed, but that residents need to accept large school size • If the pause button is pushed on this plan,we have the opportunity to make the school situation better (e.g. consider a charter school) • Dublin assumed an increase of 1 student per household but student generation realistically came to 3 students per household and thus they had to build new schools • California ranks 49th in the nation in public schools • The 1,700 units to be constructed to comply with RI-INA plus the planned 1,300 homes in East Pleasanton would mean 3,000 new units. At a rate of 3 students per unit, this equates to 9,000 students • School data is unreliable since younger families are moving into Pleasanton because of the schools, replacing older residents • Friends' children went to 2 different elementary schools—think of schools before housing 3