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Karen Gonzales From: Subject: Pleasanton City Clerk FW: City Council Priorities Work List for 2017 -2018 East Pleasanton SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Provided to the City Council After Distribution of Packet 3-'3-17 _ From: Kelly Cousins [m] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 8:53 PM To: Mayor and City Council « itvcouncil @cityofpleasantonca.aov> Subject: City Council Priorities Work List for 2017 -2018 East Pleasanton Dear Mayor Thorne and Council Members Brown, Pentin, Narum and Olsen, Date I urge you Not to put the planning for the massive residential development of the East Side on the City Priorities Work List at the March 14th meeting. The list already has enough important projects identified for the next two years that need our taxpayers dollars and City resources and staff time. Although the Steelwave Developer has been lobbying you and others in the community for several months with misleading marketing in costly brochures and ads for their "resurrected" plan for 889 non- mandated housing plus commercial and industrial development, the community is not fooled by the promise of a "new" plan. What the developer leaves out of their advertising is that the push to plan the East Side comes at a high cost to our community. Their current plan looks very similar to the old East Pleasanton Specific Plan however with 50 acres less space that can be developed at a future date to increase the numbers of housing units to over 1300. Among the amenities featured in the developer's brochures are boating in Cope Lake, a small quarry water retaining -pond that won't be available until after the Gravel Company contract expires in 2060. Who would trust these claims? Most likely not the over 1000 people who previously attended the community meetings about the East Side Specific Plan and were vehemently opposed to planning the East Side in 2015. Nothing has changed with the new plan. Most of the community still remembers the previous EPSP proposal for 1300 homes and its flawed draft EIR. They are even more aware of and exasperated by the inexplicable push for non - mandated housing approvals before the dust settles from the effects of the 2000 housing units already approved or being built around town. Pleasanton residents know that if the City Council makes a motion to begin "planning ", even under the guise of a feasibility study of El Charro Rd going through from Stanley to 580, this recommendation would mean you are not listening to a frustrated majority of Pleasanton voters. Encouraging school crowding, more traffic nightmares, limited water resources and further decline in Pleasanton's quality of life are not why we elected you to be our representatives on the Council. What's the rush to plan the last largest partial of undeveloped land in Pleasanton? Is this push to "Plan" the East Side in the best interest of the residents of Pleasanton, your constituents, or the best interest of the For - Profit Developers ?! We will be waiting to see what you decide is most important for our town on March 14th. Sincerely, Kelly Cousins 1