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homes are their largest retirement investment, and to have to disclose a 12- children daycare next -door or across the street when they sell their home is certainly going to decrease the value of the sale of those homes. She added that it is particularly disturbing that someone renting a property can come and decrease the value of homes that neighbors have lived in for 20 years and for which they have worked hard and paid. She indicated that as a property owner, she feels that their needs are reasonable and should be met by the Planning Commission. She noted that they are paying the property taxes that keep Pleasanton beautiful, that have created and maintained their neighborhood in a beautiful and appealing way, and that it is disconcerting when people who do not have ownership in the property have more rights than the people who have been long- established in the area and have been dutifully paying their property taxes. Ms. Kramer stated that she is having trouble understanding the logic of allowing the daycare to expand if none of the property owners are in favor of increasing the size of the daycare, and if the original City evaluation itself stated not to permit the large daycare. She noted that a fair compromise at best to appease the homeowners and the applicants is to keep it as a small family daycare: the applicants get a daycare with their seven children, and the neighbors at least get half the noise and disturbance that it is causing. Commissioner O'Connor asked Ms. Kramer if she was implying that there is noise coming from car doors slamming at 6:00 in the morning. Ms. Kramer replied that her conference calls to the East Coast usually occur from 6:00 through 11:00 in the morning. She stated that she does not hear car doors slamming at 6:00 a.m., but she does hear them by the time she is on her 8:00 a.m. conference calls. Mr. Alioto stated that he would like to address a couple of things: The most important thing is that he heard a couple of people say they like daycare and do not have a problem with that. He noted that this is exactly why the State of California has chosen to protect family daycares because this is something that everybody thinks is necessary and needs but nobody wants in their backyard. They understand that parking their cars across the street from Northwood Court creates problems for the residents of the Court, and they politely have backed their cars off. He noted, however, that these are publicly open parking spots which other people also use, such as the neighbors' friends who come over, so he does not understand why all of a sudden it is not acceptable for them to use the public parking spaces but it is acceptable for the neighbors to use them. He indicated that there are lots of cars parked up and down Muirwood Drive on the edge of the other courts, and none of the other neighbors are complaining about that. He noted that this is one of those small minor things that the neighbors can put their little hook into and say they do not want them parking there because it is the daycare; however, the truth is they, as owners of the daycare, are not doing anything different than what anyone else in the neighborhood is doing. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, October 14, 2015 Page 28 of 35