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so many the residents of Pleasanton should take a closer look at who they vote into office. Please consider the destruction of lives in the Valley Trail community and do not allow these activities to continue outside of the Masonic building. The Masons have a responsibility to their neighbors too. Private citizen's would not be allowed to disrupt the lives of their neighbors so the commercial neighbors should not be allowed to do so either. Pleasanton has a reputation of being one of the best cities in the Bay Area to live. Let's keep it that way. I suggest that you start enforcing your ordinances that you guys set up instead of letting it get to this point, seriously. Stephen Voyne: I had a question. Is the Masonic Lodge in the residential area? Is it zoned residential? Chair Ritter: We'll kind of go through that afterwards. Voyne: The only reason it was significant to me was that if it's zoned residential, why would it be considered a buffer zone? So we have the Millers that own a house that was in a certain condition in regard to noise levels. The Masonic Temple was used at a certain level and that changed. I would ask you to put yourself in their position both from an economic standpoint; the value of their home, but more so on a quality of life issue. Pleasanton has enjoyed a high status nationally as a place to raise children, education, a great place to have a family and we owe past Planning Commissions, Mayor, City Council people gratitude for that, and it's a constant nudge in that direction and I would ask that you consider continuing in that direction by protecting the neighborhood rather than a commercial interest. Thank you. Bhaskar Maddi: Good evening everyone, City, Planning Commission and staff. Thanks for hearing me. I was living here 15 years here in Monterey, and the City was so quaint, but unfortunately, my job has moved to the south Bay and I moved to Santa Clara. Everyone knows Santa Clara is so crowded and my dream City was not that design. Still I'm working in the South Bay in San Jose, but I found that my dream city is Pleasanton. So then I moved to Pleasanton in 2011. Still I'm working in San Jose and drive everyday two hours at least to live a peaceful life in the City of Pleasanton. Recently Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise, said Pleasanton is an honest and very nice City and he came here a couple of times and that was a powerful statement. In the statement he said that the people of Pleasanton are caring about their city. So that was powerful to me and I don't consider my two hour drive every day. But all of a sudden this kind of noise coming and getting the commercialized parties and all, it seems City people are caring about it but I would ask them to reconsider and go for option 1 and not option 3. 1 live on Bryce Canyon Court and for five years I've liked the city and it was my dream to be living here and enjoy the good parts of Pleasanton. I had to think about all of these things and I really appreciate if you guys would consider option 1 to keep it the way it was before. I don't like option 3 and thank you for considering this. Karthikeyan Radhakrishnan: I'm a new house owner and I believe I share boundaries with them, but I haven't exactly measured them. So I could vouch for what these guys told you that the expectation from you is very high. I work for a company in Menlo Park called Facebook and I commute, but I still decided to come here because I really thought my two- year -old son would have a good life here. The schools are great. The neighborhood is great and my neighbors are great. I'm so disappointed to see that you PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2016 Page 26 of 56