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One meeting attendee has identified Program 1.5 in the Water Element of the General Plan that states use of recycled water should not be used for new development: Utilize cost-effective water reclamation and recycling techniques for the purpose of water conservation rather than as a new source of water which must be used to sustain new and existing development, where these techniques can be implemented without degrading surface water and groundwater quality. The Council may need to consider the logic of this program as written. If water that is conserved is not to be used to sustain existing or new development, what is it to be used for? 2. Traffic. The Draft EIR indicates that the Draft EPSP would not result in substantial congestion on any local or regional roadways after the construction of roadway improvements within the Plan Area, primarily because the extension of El Charro Road to Stanley Boulevard as part of the plan would divert traffic from other parallel roads — Santa Rita Road and Valley Avenue in particular. However, many attendees of the neighborhood meetings voiced concern that development as outlined in the draft plan would exacerbate traffic currently experienced at intersections throughout the City. Some attendees also noted that the extension of El Charro Road could reduce traffic volumes on many of the City's major roadways, but expressed a desire that the extension be funded through means other than a major development project in the Plan Area. 3. School Capacity. On March 31, 2015, Davis Demographics & Planning, on behalf of Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD), published the Student Population Projections (Fall 2014-Fall 2024). These projections identify expected student enrollment changes over the next decade, including from students generated by buildout of the EPSP, and the impact of these changes on the need for new school facilities. The report projects that the plan area will yield a total of 1,300 K-12 students, 746 of which would be in grades K-5. Taking into account EPSP-related and other planned residential growth, the report concluded that — due primarily to declining birth rates — PUSD would experience a decline of 467 elementary school students by 2024, and that this decline would occur over eight of PUSD's nine elementary attendance areas. Because PUSD's Facilities Master Plan establishes a desired elementary school capacity of 600-700 students, no new elementary school would need to be added to the EPSP area or anywhere else in the City before 2024, according to the report. However, after 2024, with continued development of the EPSP, the report "recommends that the District still continue to plan to open a site at [the EPSP] location as it will eventually be needed." Such a site is included in the Draft EPSP, south of Lake I. No new middle or high schools would be required anywhere in PUSD by 2024, based on the report's most recent projections. Overall, enrollment in PUSD is expected to decline from a current total of 14,766 students to a district-wide total of 14,388 students by 2024. Many attendees of the neighborhood meetings and a joint City Council/PUSD meeting on April 27 expressed skepticism that the report's Page 4 of 8