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Again, thank you for writing and taking the time to be informed about our community. I hope you find this information useful. Please let us know if you need additional clarification about the timeline or process. Sincerely, Nelson Fialho City Manager From: David Camp Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:24 PM To: Mayor and City Council Subject: East Side: ZERO is Preferred Number Mr. Mayor and City Council Members, Pleasanton's preferred number of new housing units should be ZERO. For the East Side or anywhere. The 29,000 unit housing cap was one of the biggest reasons we moved here twelve years ago. Two reasons. We could expect our house value to climb faster than the general area as increasing demand pursued limited supply. More importantly, it told us that the people and elected leaders of Pleasanton were committed to remaining a nice, small community. They liked how Pleasanton was and wanted to keep it that way. I'm glad we fought ABAG,the Attorney General and the City-subsidized housing activists. I am disappointed we lost. The resulting two thousand units under construction will make our schools and traffic more crowded and consume more water. The only way we should add even more units is if we are forced to. Most of the negatives of building more housing are obvious and you've heard them all. * More traffic and traffic delays (if mitigating road changes can help, then do them without this development), * More crowded schools (remember the last school a developer promised to build for us?), * Water(did you happen to watch a soccer game at our Sports Park last fall? -truly embarrassing) If you want lots of people,jammed intersections, crowded schools, and dirt for soccer fields, Mexico City is calling. The biggest negative of this development is erosion of our wonderful sense of community. At sports and school events, or downtown, we love bumping into people that we've been on teams and classes with. We are getting too big already. More and we'll have that anonymous big city feel. I cannot fathom why we would voluntarily choose to add more housing. It would not benefit the current residents. Who would it benefit? Who is lobbying for it? What is our motivation for giving them this? Please don't just shelve this until no one is looking. Kill it, kill the EIR, and keep the existing zoning. If we find a legal gun to our heads some time in the future, then this effort by the East Side working group can be a starting point for discussion. Sincerely, David Camp Pleasanton, CA Click here to report this email as spam. 2