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that industrial land is rezoned to residential. She added that if this is allowed to get so far down the line that there is no longer any way of mitigating this crisis, she would hope that the Commission is looking at this crisis in other projects it is considering as well. She indicated that a Preferred Plan is not needed right now; this land is not zoned residential right now, and the City is not forced to build houses on it that the schools do not have room to address. Ms. Testa stated that at the last Planning Commission Work Session, she was really impressed with the constant comments that kept coming regarding how this project benefits this neighborhood and Pleasanton. She indicated that right now, any of these residential projects are going to dramatically hurt Pleasanton. She noted that growth should pay for itself, and right now, all of these children are coming to Pleasanton schools, and there is no way of addressing that mitigation without the community coming back as property owners and tax payers and once again being demanded to pay for the mitigation of growth to the schools. She indicated that there is no way PUSD can get the new schools with the fees that are currently being collected. She emphasized that PUSD's capital funding is in crisis, and it cannot be continually ignored. Heather Liang, President of the Homeowners Association for the Ironwood community and speaking on the community's behalf, expressed the community's concerns about the Preferred Plan and what will be put on the East Pleasanton Specific Plan area. She indicated that they have a fairly large community here and the residents are concerned about the different percentages that Ms. Stern has presented. She stated that the Preferred Plan, as it is written today, has a very high percentage of taking on the overall RHNA percentages, including a very high percentage of multi - family housing. She questioned why East Pleasanton should have to be over - burdened with this big percentage of RHNA numbers and that there should be a balanced distribution that was mentioned as the goal of this Plan. She indicated that East Pleasanton taking more than 50 percent of the share is not very balanced, and the Plan should look at Pleasanton overall and not focus on East Pleasanton alone. She noted that the recently approved Auf der Maur project, combined with this Preferred Plan, will add more than 2,000 units in a very concentrated area in East Pleasanton that already has unacceptable levels of traffic. She stated that she cannot even imagine what it will look like with that many units right there, as well as over 1,000 units of high- density. Ms. Liang stated that her community is definitely asking the Commission to look at a Plan that is more evenly distributed around Pleasanton and not have it all fall on East Pleasanton. She indicated that they are interested to hear how the City could help fund this Plan and the infrastructure costs to support the least amount of units, instead of having the builders be primarily responsible for those costs. She noted that the Preferred Plan has come down to a more acceptable 1,700 -unit Plan, but it could go a little bit further down. She indicated that it is good for the community to have this built out and have El Charro Road extended as it is going to help the residents of all of Pleasanton to distribute the traffic. She questioned, then, why it is the responsibility of the developers of the East Pleasanton Plan if it helps all of Pleasanton, and if there is PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 25, 2013 Page 30 of 45