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Carolyn Lincoln read the following letter from the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club into the record: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council and Members of the Planning Commission, In past recent weeks, the environmental impact report was released for Lund Ranch II. It contained the results of a review of a number of options for the construction of a modest number of homes and an access road. The Sierra Club's local chapter, (which includes Pleasanton) has had members perform the review of this EIR, and they concur with the report's findings, and with the developer, that the Lund Ranch Road access is the preferred environmental approach to minimize impacts and avoid construction on high sloping ground. However, it has come to our attention that the City of Pleasanton administration is proposing to overrule, and deviate from, the EIR and attempt to push a second road through the steep-sloped ground. This additional road is not the environmentally preferred solution, and it will also likely to run afoul of the Measure PP, which voters approved for the purpose of preventing the environmental damage and steep-sloped terrain. It is therefore our earnest request that the City administrators use the EIR as the impartial planning tool and implement the EIR's preferred project configuration with the lower impact road that does not violate Measure PP. Sincerely, Rebecca Evans, Chapter Chair Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. Ms. Lincoln then asked the people in the audience to raise their hand if they support the content of the letter. Vicki LaBarge stated that she will speak about environmental impact versus human impact. She indicated that she has lived on Junipero Street for 30 years and has raised a family on Junipero Street before it connected to Sunol Boulevard, before there was any Ventana Hills, and she has seen traffic increase over the years. She stated that she has been in communication with Mike Tassano about the traffic problem on Junipero Street and that she is in a way representing a number of people on Junipero Street because she is also the Neighborhood Watch Captain. She further stated that she was told by staff that there is no money for traffic-calming measures on Junipero Street, that Junipero Street is No. 9 on the list for traffic-calming measures, and Sycamore Creek Way, Sunset Creek Lane, and Bridle Creek are not even on that list. Ms. LaBarge stated that in addition to the traffic that might be coming down from the new Lund Ranch development, there is also the high-density complex that is going in at Bernal Avenue and Stanley Boulevard, which will add much more cut-through traffic on Junipero Street and Independence Drive by people trying to get home through Bernal Avenue and do not want to sit on Sunol Boulevard. She asked how much more traffic is EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES, June 24, 2015 Page 18 of 45