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Karen Gonzales From: Subject: Pleasanton City Clerk FW: East Side Planning - Priority Planning From: Steve Brozosky [] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 2:07 PM To: Mayor and City Council < citycouncil @cityofpleasantonca.gov> Subject: East Side Planning - Priority Planning I ask the City Council to not yet make the East Side Planning a City Priority. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Provided to the City Council After Distribution of Packet Date The City has approved a lot of housing recently and it is currently in a building stage. We have yet to see the impacts of this housing boom in our city. 1 recommend we see what the impacts of all this housing is on our infrastructure. That mostly includes traffic and schools. For schools, not just elementary schools but also middle and high schools. We previously had a housing cap and the infrastructure in the city was designed around it. With no longer having a housing cap we are finding that our infrastructure is being pushed and capacity exceeded. Mostly issues with traffic but also with schools. While there is talk of this development possibly putting in an elementary school, we still have not addressed what happens in the middle and high school levels. Before we plan for more housing, I ask that the City add a priority item to analyze the school congestion and work on plans to handle what we have, and address what would need to be done if more housing were to be added at the significant level of the east side. That planning should occur first. If we plan for the East Side first, we do not yet know what the requirements will be. Since we have met the RHNA numbers, no matter how much we disagree with them, there is no hurry to plan a new major subdivision at this time. While the developer wants this now, that developer bought a piece of land on speculation and knew the risks. The council previously made a commitment to the community that any planning on the East Side would go to a vote of the people. I believe if you plan that area now, without us knowing the impacts of the approved housing, there is no chance of an East Side plan to be approved by the voters. Just about everybody I speak with says we have too much housing and our traffic and schools are way too congested already. Planning the East Side now will be a waste of time and money for the city. Best Regards, Steve Brozosky Click here to report this email as spam. 1