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fence. She indicated that they asked for specific amendments to the property agreement which included not only the restricted delivery hours but the restriction of trucks being able to park back there overnight and idling with their refrigerator units after 10:00 P.M. Ms. Driscoll stated that the applicant has put in a petition, saying they have some 200 odd signatures. She pointed out that these are not signatures from people of the neighborhood but from their customers who shop for gas and coffee. She noted that the petition signed by 30 residents were gathered in less than an hour in areas that Mr. Hirst said he originally covered knocking on doors. Ms. Driscoll stated that this would be not only a zoning change but would also change the original property agreements that no alcohol would be sold on the premises. She indicated that when the gas station was rebuilt in 1989, the owners applied for a zoning change to be able to sell alcohol, and the neighborhood all got together and said no, and no to a 24 -hour grocery store behind them. She added that there has been little talk tonight about the traffic studies, and what is failing to be shown on this map is that right across from the driveway onto West Las Positas Boulevard, there is an opening that is only used for the Fire Department to come in and out of the fire station. She indicated that they have tremendous traffic problems in the morning; there is an elementary school right down the street, and all the children who come will need to cross that driveway getting to and from school because there are no crossing lights or crossing guards on that side of the street from West Las Positas Boulevard across Santa Rita Road. She noted that when they mentioned this at the neighborhood meeting, they were told that the traffic studies and traffic engineer did not find a problem in this area at that time and that if it became a problem later, the neighbors would have to deal directly with the City. She stated that they are not interested in doing that and that they would like to prevent these traffic problems at this time. Ms. Driscoll stated that another thing that was indicated to them at the neighborhood meeting was the crime numbers, and it appears that they never get the right numbers. She indicated that at the last Planning Commission meeting, it was determined that 7- Eleven had been robbed twice in 27 months, and now they are saying that there has been only one robbery at one location. She added that Mr. Hirst had told them specifically that there were no robberies at any convenience stores in Pleasanton in the last five years, and this is untrue. She noted that a lot of the information that the neighborhood residents have received have either been false or misrepresentative of the issues. She pointed out that WalMart is open from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight, but they do not allow any of their trucks in there again to park. She added that they have not seen any environmental study or traffic studies, and when she asked for the noise studies at the neighborhood meeting, she was specifically told that the noise studies had been put into the Planning Commission staff report and were unavailable for her to see or for any of them to get numbers or clarification on when these studies were done, how they were done, and who they affected. She indicated that they were talking about the townhouses which are across the street from the location, while she actually backs up on the other side of the shopping center. She noted that she has a sound wall but PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 27, 2014 Page 17 of 44