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Beaudin: What I would encourage is for those folks to either call me directly or Mike Tassano and we can talk about our neighborhood traffic calming programs and identify the issues more specifically. We hear all the time about increased traffic volumes in the City, speed issues, etc. and we have ways to help address that in the short term with the police department and then longer term working with the neighborhood and possibly implementing some physical solutions. I just haven't had those conversations. Commissioner O'Connor: They bring up the backup at some of the intersections like there's a 3 -way intersection where Division crosses the street that goes out to the high school .... on the other side of the bridge.... Del Valle? So it backs up far enough that people can't actually come off of Fair and make a left turn. And I've been there before and have seen it. I don't know how prevalent that is, what times of day, but I don't know if there are ways of solving those types of issues outside of speeding issues and I'm not just talking about backup issues. Beaudin: What I'll do is make some notes now and have a conversation with our Traffic Engineer. Commissioner O'Connor: Do you have a letter from Tim Lester? Beaudin: I do. Chair Ritter: I just have one other speaker card, Bertram Robarts? Bertram Robarts: Thank you very much for taking the time to hear me and I've lived in Pleasanton since 1971 and I've witnessed considerable growth throughout the City and I've often had nothing but enormous praise for the City Planning Commission and its outstanding job it's done over the years. The thing is my concern is that Pleasanton is rapidly losing its pastoral character which gives it a unique quality whereby it rates the 4t" most desirable town to live in in the United States. I speak for many of my neighbors and friends who want to keep it that way. In 1998, the people of Pleasanton voted for a housing freeze or a building freeze. Jerry Brown was then Attorney General, at that time because we were in violation of urban housing growth and we need affordable housing —no question about it. However, my concern is that the viable impact —I'm sure you all considered that regarding Arroyo Del Valle, a beautiful stretch —in fact I live across the street from it —it's just a pastoral, beautiful area. In fact, traffic congestion, overcrowded schools in the future, and also possibly crime, drought conditions; we're coming off of 4 years of very unprecedented drought. Since 1850, we've never had a drought such as this. We are being asked to conserve water, required to. We're not out of the drought yet. We're about 80% capacity in Shasta Reservoir and we're still in the drought, and I noticed that it says here "approval does not guarantee available of sufficient water capacity to serve the project." I think that's a major factor to consider. In fact, I should say also, I don't recognize many parts of Pleasanton along here. There is construction going in, condos on Bernal, apartments there, and a section on Willow Road right across from 24 Hour Fitness. It's a parking nightmare to get into 24 Hour Fitness, and imagine what it'll be like when the construction is completed. I'm just saying a few things of general concern. I'm sure the Planning Commission has considered those. I just wanted to vent some of my concerns, and I know you've probably heard this before but I'm just looking at perspective having been a resident PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, March 23, 2016 Page 13 of 46