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Attachment #5—Flyers the Millers handed out at Political Meetings (1 of 2) <br />PROTECT PLEASANTON'S RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS <br />Although you may like going to parties, you probably never expected your neighbor on the other side of your backyard <br />fence to morph into a commercial party business and financially profit by renting their backyard for large public parties (up <br />to 600 people. including serving alcohol), while creating a noise nuisance for you —and that the City would condone it. <br />Think living next to Chuck E. Cheese during the day and your local bar at night. <br />The peace of Pleasanton's residential neighborhoods is at risk due to actions by the current Planning Department. <br />Pleasanton has traditionally prided itself on being pro - residents, but the current Planning Department, unlike prior <br />planners and commissioners, is undermining that stance. Only a strong reaction from residents will restore the balance. <br />We hope you will agree that: <br />• it's wrong for the City to allow commercial businesses to destroy the peace of residential neighborhoods. <br />• The precedent the City has set could allow commercial enterprises to mushroom into residential areas. <br />o Private clubs and non - profit organizations cannot be allowed to morph into commercial businesses in residential areas. <br />Pleasanton has long recognized that while fraternal organizations, such as the Masons, are beneficial, permitting them to locate <br />facilities in residential areas could result in damaging impacts on residents from noise nuisances if not regulated properly. <br />How do the Masons create a noise nuisance? Some lodges like to supplement their income by renting their building to the <br />public for parties, for example, wedding receptions, children's birthday parties, etc. This is why most lodges are located in <br />commercial, not residential neighborhoods. Those few lodges located in residential areas either do not rent the building or <br />do not rent the outside. <br />Because of this, the 1977 City Planning Commissioners, in recognizing that they were permitting the extremely rare act of <br />allowing a Masonic Lodge in a residential area, put specific regulations (called conditions which are stipulated in a CUP — <br />Conditional Use Permit) on the Pleasanton Masons to ensure that the use of the facility did not create a noise nuisance to <br />the neighbors. Specifically, the conditions stated that the Masons could not use the outside backyard area and that all noise <br />had to be contained within the building. This created a win -win for everyone —the Masons could rent the inside of their <br />building for events to the public yet not create a noise nuisance to the neighbors. <br />However, the current Planning Department has allowed the Masons to remodel their building and turn the backyard area <br />into an outdoor entertainment space to rent to the public for large, noisy, parties, up to 600 people, including alcohol, and <br />therefore have created "Party Central." Furthermore, the Planning Department has allowed the Masons to rent the kitchen <br />to a catering business, also creating a noise nuisance since it operates at all hours of the day and night. These changes have <br />destroyed the peace and tranquility of neighboring residents. This is contrary to the zoning codes and the use permit that <br />the Planning Commission approved. Of course, large parties and commercial businesses have their place — but it shouldn't <br />be in residential areas. In fact, commercial businesses are never supposed to be allowed in residential areas. <br />The Planning Department is overriding zoning codes and justifying these violations by calling these activities an "accessory <br />use." Most of us would understand an accessory use to be a minor use associated with the main activity. The Planning <br />Department's interpretation, however, allows the tail to wag the dog, with the commercial activities creating the major use. <br />Both revenues and use of the building combined from the catering company and public parties far outweigh the revenues <br />and use of the building for Masonic membership dues, meetings and activities. Furthermore, the City is ignoring case law <br />precedent in Los Angeles with another Masonic lodge in which the Court decided that commercial activities in a residential <br />zone do not constitute an allowable (accessory) use and ordered the Masons to cease and desist commercial activities. <br />Who knows how the current Planning Departments' position will impact Pleasanton in the future by allowing commercial <br />businesses to mushroom into residential neighborhoods, and by letting churches, schools and even Masonic Temples to <br />start commercial businesses to supplement their income. Protect the peace and tranquility of your home —join us in telling <br />the City to enforce the codes and protect Pleasanton's residences from these abuses. <br />Please read more about this at www.SavePleasantonNeighborhoods.com <br />30 <br />
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