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to be the primary route; Junipero Street was never built as a through street, and now it will be subject to more cars. Ms. LaBarge stated that she never received any notice in the mail inviting her to attend a meeting where they could express their concerns about the traffic. She encouraged the Commission and staff to come to her house and have coffee with her at 7:00 a.m. to see the traffic that comes down her street until about 9:00 a.m. when all the moms have dropped off their kids; and then come back between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to have iced tea and dinner and again watch the speeders come down her street. She stated that she has taken her own test movement, purposely backing out of her driveway and drive 15 miles per hour down her street during busy times in an attempt to try and slow down the traffic. She added that she has summoned the Police Department to come and sit on Junipero Street to monitor the traffic and issue citations. She noted that the problem is that the Police Department has decided that the best place to park is at the stop sign, but people tend to not speed up when they approach a stop sign. Ms. LaBarge stated that they do not need more speeding traffic on Junipero Street. She indicated that they have some options: (1) Speed bumps, which they have discussed with the City Council about ten years ago. She indicated that they do not want to put speed bumps as it is a hazard to the Fire Department, and they do not want to have any kind of restriction with the Fire Department trying to get to their homes. (2) Additional stop signs. The two stop signs on Junipero Street, which was a dead -end street years ago and was never even supposed to intersect with Sunol Boulevard, were installed because of the Junipero Street residents' complaints about the speeding traffic. (3) Junipero Street could be made a non — through- traffic street like Dolores Drive. She requested the Planning Commission to take a serious look at the traffic on Junipero Street and come up with an alternative solution. Andy Albritten stated that he has been a Pleasanton resident since 1988 and an original member of the Ventana Hills Steering Committee, was part of the negotiation in 1991 with Shapell Homes and the City in connection with the Bonde Homes development process, and a signee to the letters in 2003 and in 2011 to the Planning Commission. He indicated that the majority of concerns they have are that the traffic coming through their neighborhood was never intended to go through there. He stated that he has been receiving communication from the developer, as Mr. Meyer said, but it has all been unilateral. He noted that when the residents said that there has been an agreement with the neighbors, Mr. Meter replied that was then and this is now; and when the residents said there is a problem with traffic, Mr. Meyer said it does not matter. He expressed concern that there is a unilateral communication going on, that this is the plan, this is the way it is going to be, and this is the way we are going to push it through. Mr. Albritten stated that he has neighbors in Sycamore Park, Mission Hills Park, and down Junipero Street who have expressed the same concerns. He indicated that it is Tike a funnel, with all the traffic from his neighborhood going through Junipero Street down to Raley's, to the Middle School, and to the Elementary School. He added that that the traffic coming down Junipero Street through Independence Drive and Lund PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 14, 2012 Page 17 of 35