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noted that what was communicated to the voters prior to the passing of Measure PP was that roads are not a part of what Pleasanton voters approved, and she was one of those voters. Ms. Lofland stated that there is no other development in Pleasanton with this unique set of circumstances and such long- standing documented plans for circulation. She asked that the Planning Commission recommend to the City Council upholding previous agreements and Specific Plans, and voting for either Option 2 or Option 3 in the staff report. She indicated that they do not see that these interfere with Measure PP, and the City Council has already voted that a road is not a structure and that Measure PP would be applied on a case -by -case basis. She then asked the audience for a show of hands of people who support this and who have come here tonight for that. Carolyn Lincoln read the following letter from the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club into the record: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council and Members of the Planning Commission, In past recent weeks, the environmental impact report was released for Lund Ranch II. It contained the results of a review of a number of options for the construction of a modest number of homes and an access road. The Sierra Club's local chapter, (which includes Pleasanton) has had members perform the review of this EIR, and they concur with the report's findings, and with the developer, that the Lund Ranch Road access is the preferred environmental approach to minimize impacts and avoid construction on high sloping ground. However, it has come to our attention that the City of Pleasanton administration is proposing to overrule, and deviate from, the EIR and attempt to push a second road through the steep- sloped ground. This additional road is not the environmentally preferred solution, and it will also likely to run afoul of the Measure PP, which voters approved for the purpose of preventing the environmental damage and steep- sloped terrain. It is therefore our earnest request that the City administrators use the EIR as the impartial planning tool and implement the EIR's preferred project configuration with the lower impact road that does not violate Measure PP. Sincerely, Rebecca Evans, Chapter Chair Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. Tim LaBarge stated that he is speaking on behalf of my wife, Vicki LaBarge, and read her notes as follows: "Junipero will take on an additional 500 plus cars a day on top of the 2,400 that already commute up and down our street. These are numbers that have been validated by traffic control, as they've been monitoring traffic over the last couple of PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 26, 2015 Page 16 of 43