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from LOS B to LOS C in cumulative. Even the near term with the project without cumulative, there is degradation from LOS B to LOS C there. He said if 890 trips are added, he asked what traffic would be like at this level. City Traffic Engineer Mike Tassano said 890 trips sounds like a lot and he would be concerned with adding that in a peak hour; however, the way to look at it is that 10 percent occur in each peak, or 90 trips. The 90 trips are taken and distributed. Half may go down First Street, the other half down Old Stanley, and some toward Livermore. The direction of travel is broken down in the transportation study. When distilling down the 90 trips that leave or come back in the p.m. peak hour, half of them, or 45 vehicles, are now on First Street. This is a little less than one per minute. With this development, instead of three cars at a traffic signal, there may be four or five cars. Mr. Tassano said added to this are the trips from the 345 units from residential development occurring on the Auf der Maur property which is included in the transportation study, and the question asked is what other traffic in Livermore and Dublin contributes towards Pleasanton's LOS. They then conduct a cumulative analysis and they look at how those new traffic volumes are written out and they get to the level of service. One of drawbacks in looking at LOS, if there is a heavily traveled corridor in one direction he can add a lot more traffic to that because Pleasanton does not have a lot of cross streets. When sitting on Neal Street and someone wants to cross First Street, that traffic volume is light. So instead of having the car wait 30 seconds, they can delay the lights another 30 seconds which allows many more cars through on the main street. Commissioner Brown asked and confirmed with Mr. Tassano the 345 units would be included and forecasted into the model. He referred to Row 11, page 108, and said when looking at the p.m. peak, the delay today is 25 seconds and it will go to 48 seconds, and with this project it would go to 50 seconds per vehicle. The change will be a lot from 25 seconds to 48 seconds, but not much from 48 to 50. Therefore, today when compared to in the future, traffic on First Street will have much longer delays, and Mr. Tassano agreed. Chair Ritter referred to the three options which are: (1) the current proposal with 93 homes; (2) the Housing Element with more apartments; and (3) to leave as is scenario with office and zoning. He confirmed with Mr. Tassano that the least amount of traffic impact would be the 93 homes unless going to all warehouse. Mr. Tassano said all analysis included having Nevada Street extended because this is a much more equitable way to analyze this project. Commissioner Nagler asked what the impact on traffic would be with the Nevada Street extension. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 10, 2016 Page 6 of 33