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Subject: FW: East Pleasanton Specific Plan SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Provided to the City Council From: Erin L. Kvistad [ After Distribution of Packet / Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 8:33 PM 7-1i'Z&/S To: Kendall Rose; Shweta Bonn; Adam Weinstein Date Cc: Maria Hoey Subject: RE: East Pleasanton Specific Plan I would appreciate if you would please forward this letter to the members of the Pleasanton City Council,ASAP.Thank you. Mayor Thorne and Council Members: I cannot attend Tuesday's Council meeting due to year-end school commitments of my children. I wanted to make sure my voice was represented. My husband and I are lifelong residents of Pleasanton.We continue to reside and raise our family in the community in which we grew up.This town has changed dramatically in the years since our families first moved here. Long-range planning and growth resulted in the community that we all love today. I was honored to be asked to serve on the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force and have proudly done my homework,contributed to discussions, and voted with a supermajority of the committee to reach the plan that is currently being considered by the council. You tasked us with doing something that has served this community well and earned it the moniker The City of Planned Progress- PLAN. I am asking that you allow the planning process begun nearly three years ago to come to fruition. A well-represented and well-informed group of citizens took our job seriously and laid a great foundation for the future of the East Side. Rather than let industrial development proceed unchecked according to current zoning, our community would be better served by the amenities contained in this plan which would be laid out over decades after every single item proceeds through the long and arduous approval process. A very loud and vocal group have intimidated many from attending recent community meetings and the lies disseminated by their group have gone unchecked (for one,they continue to talk about multi-family housing which has been eliminated from the plan). It is time for the City Council to do what they were elected to do in November— continue to move this City forward.The same people opposed to planning the East Side actively supported a no-growth candidate in the last election. Despite the votes of the community at large being split among other forward-looking candidates,that no-growth candidate was unable to garner enough support to get elected.The community voted. It's time to take a stand and exercise leadership to do what's best for Pleasanton—finish a process that has taken many years and a great deal of money and city resources to complete. Thank you, Erin Kvistad Click here to report this email as spam. 1