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Sherry Barclay stated that what brought her here this evening is that she has also been attending some of the Task Force meetings and is concerned about the same thing that the other people have mentioned: the volume of housing intended to be put in this particular area. She stated that she lives in the Ironwood Village, the 55- and -older community that is still being completed, and previous to that, she lived in the Martin Avenue neighborhood for 22 years, so she is very familiar with that side of town. She indicated that what is being proposed here does not fit anything that goes over in that end of the town. She added that that other thing that was really surprising is that, for as long as she has lived here, Valley Avenue has one of the major traffic problems in this town, and yet a big multi -unit project has already been approved on the south side of Stanley Boulevard, and now another 1,000 to 1,700 housing units are being added, all coming out through Busch Road onto Valley Avenue and putting a lot more traffic in that area. She stated that her biggest concern is that she just thinks these numbers are way out of proportion for either the Valley Avenue, Stanley Boulevard, or her neighborhood, in general. She added that it goes without saying that the problem with the schools has been there for a long time. Sean Sowell stated that from a work -force affordable- housing point of view, he would like to ask that the Planning Commission look at Alternative 3 most closely because he thinks this one does really the best job of including more people in the community who have been excluded from the community due to the high cost of housing here in town. He stated that he already lives in Pleasanton and that his son already goes to school here and will start high school in the fall. He indicated that work force housing and moderately - priced housing for people in the community is a good thing, and he thinks Alternative 3 probably does the job best, although he is not sure that the particular sprinkling of the lower- versus the medium- and higher- density units is really the best way to do it. Mr. Sowell stated that in regard to this Alternative, he would like the Planning Commission to suggest to the Task Force to set aside a portion of the parcel to the north reserved for retail /office for some housing so the burden of housing is not restricted entirely on that southern portion of the plan area. He added that at the Housing Commission meeting a few weeks back, he had asked the Commission to look at the possibility of reducing some of the industrial in the lower southeast portion for some housing to the west of El Charro Road and the UGB. Mr. Sowell stated that he does not understand why the Task Force has not looked beyond the impact of the commercial and residential development on the Ace Train system and the BART train system and look at the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority ( LAVTA). He requested that a representative from LAVTA, from the Wheels bus system, be given a seat at the table for Task Force meetings going forward. He stated that there are two routes that run East -West, on the north is the RAPID bus route; and on the southern boundary along Stanley Boulevard is the No. 10 bus route. He indicated that he does not believe either of those two routes could be changed to accommodate any development in East Pleasanton here because of the nature of those routes, and as far as he knows, LAVTA has not been involved in any of the discussions PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 22, 2013 Page 18 of 41