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CUP otipainWirrOL i IATr' i 6AL =fib 1 Provided to the City Council 4' Kiewit After !Distribution of Packet PAUL E.WHITE te..) (402)oe of Real Estate , /f/� Date ��/��/ pawl. hite© ie (402)271-2830 fa paul.w4of Reiew Estate May 13, 2015 Via: Federal Express CITY OF PLEASANTON Honorable Mayor and City Council Members MAY 14 2015 City of Pleasanton do Brian Dolan, Assistant City Manager CITY MANAGER 123 Main Street Pleasanton, CA 94566 RE: East Pleasanton Specific Plan — Kiewit Property Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council Members:. For the below reasons, we urge you to continue with the planning process for the East Pleasanton Specific Plan and the related review of the Draft EIR. The Task Force for the East Pleasanton Specific Plan has been underway for nearly three years. More than 20 members of the Task Force you appointed, comprised of Pleasanton residents, your planning department, and planning and economic consultants, ® have spent these years developing a comprehensive proposed plan for the repurposing of 1100 acres in East Pleasanton. This collective group has worked evenings and weekends, taken hours upon hours of public testimony and input, and incorporated the comments from any number of city departments as well as the Pleasanton School District. The product is the East Pleasanton Specific Plan. It is a long range plan that will benefit the community by taking a proactive approach to support the right uses for the property while providing significant community-wide benefits. Besides providing substantial recreational opportunities with trails and parks, the construction of El Charro Road will provide much-needed relief to current traffic congestion. I will not elaborate here on the many other benefits but they are significant. Kiewit has been a landowner in the Pleasanton community for forty-six years. The opponents to the Specific Plan describe Kiewit as an out-of-town developer. This is entirely inaccurate. Kiewit is a general contractor (e.g. the relatively new Benicia-Martinez bridge is a Kiewit project) that builds projects for public use and we are not a developer. For more than thirty-five years, our employees worked in Pleasanton;lived in Pleasanton, sent their children to school in Pleasanton, and shopped and worshiped in Pleasanton. Our pre-stressed concrete operations and contractor's yard activities were accepted by the City and were considered to be community contributors. As to the issue regarding the most recent drought, please keep the following in mind. The East Pleasanton Specific Plan and related CEQA review affords an important opportunity to fully examine (from both technical and planning perspectives) and implement long-term water management and conservation programs in East Pleasanton that can bring significant improvements to water measures on a City-wide basis. Final project entitlements and build- out under the Specific Plan will be phased in over a significant period of time after approval of KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE CO. 1000 Kiewit Plaza,Omaha,NE 68131 (402)342-2052 (402)2712830 FAX