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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Provided to the City Council Annette Brecheisen After Distribution of Packet From: Pleasanton City Clerk • Date 5- a - t7 Subject: Valley Trails - comments on proposed Ponderosa project From: Ellen Holmgren Sent:Tuesday, May 02, 2017 4:42 PM To: Mayor and City Council<citycouncil @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Nelson Fialho<NFialho @cityofpleasantonca.gov> Cc: Pleasanton City Clerk<pleasantoncityclerk @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Gerry Beaudin <gbeaudin @cityofpleasantonca.gov>;Adam Weinstein <AWeinstein @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Natalie Amos <namos @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Kendall Granucci <KGranucci @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Brian Dolan <bdo la n @cityofpleasa ntonca.gov> Subject: RE:Valley Trails-comments on proposed Ponderosa project Dear Anne Fox, Thank you for your email regarding Item 18, Public Hearing, on the City Council Agenda for May 2, 2017. This email acknowledges receipt of your email to the Mayor and City Council, the City Manager, and City staff. Thank you again for your interest in the City of Pleasanton. Sincerely yours, Ellen Holmgren, Administrative Assistant City of Pleasanton From: Sent:Tuesday, May 02, 2017 4:32 PM To: Mayor and City Council<citycouncil @cityofpleasantonca.gov>; Nelson Fialho<NFialho @cityofpleasantonca.gov> Subject:Valley Trails- comments on proposed Ponderosa project Hello, This is a follow-up email regarding the Valley Trails project. The Pleasanton school district had at one time over 30 sites in Pleasanton designated for schools that was part of the 1965 General Plan. Along with the Valley Trails location that was originally designated as an elementary school, the management and Board of the school district refused to construct a school there after promising it for years. This was not Morrison Homes fault. LAYOUT/AMENITIES: I think the Ponderosa development from a layout and amenity perspective is one of the best I've seen for one of the abandoned school sites over the years. It has less houses than some similarly sized abandoned school sites plus it offers a restroom, which is a great benefit to the community and trail users that regularly use the linear park both within the neighborhood and those that walk a loop from the Sports Park to Valley Trails. It offers a much needed clubhouse to residents. The parking lot of the clubhouse has a gate, which means the parking lot will not attract outsiders who are not supposed to be there. TRANSITION FROM EXISTING PARK/RESIDENCES TO NEW SUBDIVISION: Also, I emailed Kathy earlier, and the plans connect the new cul-de-sacs to the existing trail/linear park similar to the layout of the abandoned school site development that George Oakes had to deal with in Pleasanton Meadows (when the school district also refused to construct a school it had promised residents) with 1