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Everybody is mille- mouthing about and what things could we do. When you've had it and you've had it since 1977, please follow the rules. Thank you. David Jenkins: Welcome. My name is David Jenkins. My wife and I've been residents of Pleasanton for about five years now. As a concerned citizen, I was surprised when I learned of what the Masonic Lodge was doing to the residents of the Valley Trails community by renting out their facility for loud parties. I was really set back when I found out that the City of Pleasanton did nothing to stop such activities from occurring. In fact, you gave them a permit to modify the original building which allowed the activities to spill out into the back parking lot. By allowing this, the City has opened up a dangerous precedent to allow other such activities in other neighborhoods. I do not want this to take place in my part of town. It is your obligation to preserve the peace and tranquility of our residential neighborhoods by enforcing City ordinances. This is an election year so many the residents of Pleasanton should take a closer look at who they vote into office. Please consider the destruction of lives in the Valley Trail community and do not allow these activities to continue outside of the Masonic building. The Masons have a responsibility to their neighbors too. Private citizen's would not be allowed to disrupt the lives of their neighbors so the commercial neighbors should not be allowed to do so either. Pleasanton has a reputation of being one of the best cities in the Bay Area to live. Let's keep it that way. I suggest that you start enforcing your ordinances that you guys set up instead of letting it get to this point, seriously. Stephen Voyne: I had a question. Is the Masonic Lodge in the residential area? Is it zoned residential? Chair Ritter: We'll kind of go through that afterwards. Voyne: The only reason it was significant to me was that if it's zoned residential, why would it be considered a buffer zone? So we have the Millers that own a house that was in a certain condition in regard to noise levels. The Masonic Temple was used at a certain level and that changed. I would ask you to put yourself in their position both from an economic standpoint; the value of their home, but more so on a quality of life issue. Pleasanton has enjoyed a high status nationally as a place to raise children, education, a great place to have a family and we owe past Planning Commissions, Mayor, City Council people gratitude for that, and it's a constant nudge in that direction and I would ask that you consider continuing in that direction by protecting the neighborhood rather than a commercial interest. Thank you. Bhaskar Maddi: Good evening everyone, City, Planning Commission and staff. Thanks for hearing me. I was living here 15 years here in Monterey, and the City was so quaint, but unfortunately, my job has moved to the south Bay and I moved to Santa Clara. Everyone knows Santa Clara is so crowded and my dream City was not that design. Still I'm working in the South Bay in San Jose, but I found that my dream city is Pleasanton. So then I moved to Pleasanton in 2011. Still I'm working in San Jose and drive everyday two hours at least to live a peaceful life in the City of Pleasanton. Recently Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise, said Pleasanton is an honest and very nice City and he came here a couple of times and that was a powerful statement. In the statement he said that the people of Pleasanton are caring about their city. So that was powerful to me and I don't consider my two hour drive every day. But all of a sudden EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2016 Page 23 of 52