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From: paulette kenyon Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 10:51 PM To: Eric Luchini Subject: development of Johnson Dr. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Provided to the Planning Commission After Distribution of Packet Date Dletributed: 1 f1 OI 11 I'm a resident of Val Vista and I've been opposed to this project from the get -go. Having gone on the Nextdoor App, I notice there are others who aren't exactly warm to the prospect of us having tons more traffic and fumes in the air close to and in our neighborhood from the negative affects of having a Costco right next door to us. The air over here in Val Vista is already not good. We have to breathe the fumes from the sewage plant. All they really do over there is mask the odor. What is in the air is still in the air—we just can't smell it as much. Also, we live right next to the freeway with already lots of cars and exhaust fumes. With all those cars going on and off at Stoneridge — it will generate even more exhaust fumes for us to breathe. Not to mention all the traffic now and the negative affects on the creek behind the park. Right now, we depend upon that creek for a little getaway walking trail for us and our dogs or riding bikes. It's nice to see some wildlife down there. Of course, our section of the creek was the last that section Zone 7 got around to working on. Now that the weather is perfect for walking, the trail is closed for repairs. A Costco down the street will dump all kinds of garbage into the creek — not to mention having a gas station there — which will also send fumes into the air for us to breathe. It will attract all kinds of strangers and dangerous sorts into the local park....I think it's an awful idea to have a Costco here. I don't think the busy working people in my neighborhood have had an ample opportunity to realistically access the negative affects of having all that development right down the street from us. Who cares about having yet another Costco this close by? Costco doesn't really carry what I would classify as necessity items. They give people relatively good prices on bulk and other doodads. Most of us shop in a myriad of other ways for our staples. If Costco went out of business, most of us wouldn't gnash our teeth and tear out our hair. IE, it's not that important. You say it will generate jobs — lots of businesses can generate jobs and not have the taxpayers footing the bill for it. I'm very disappointed in this city council. Nothing good has happened since you all got into office. Pleasanton is getting worse — not better. It's crowded and the air stinks and whoever is in charge of caring for the plants and shrubbery and trees are doing a really lousy job. The people in Val Vista should be getting mad at you for yet another dirty project that you are trying to shove off on our neighborhood. Why is this neighborhood the only one who gets impacted by these wretched projects? Besides Shadow Cliffs, of course — which you've really destroyed by building all around it. Over here in Val Vista, we already have to put up with a million cars coming over here for soccer all the time — our big trade-off for not housing all the buses and getting a park instead. We couldn't just get a park. It had to be a soccer park inviting half the world over here. Now, in addition to that, we have to put up with a million more cars from Costco? I haven't been able to breathe hardly at all over the past 5-10 years or so; and, I wouldn't doubt if it had something to do with all the extra cars on the freeway and cars coming in for soccer. Maybe some of it is from that Clorox plant over there... I don't know. If there is a Costco too, how many more Val Vista residents will become ill with lung and breathing problems. There's only so much people can put up with before the tipping point. We already have too much stuff in the air over here already. Give us a break! Build this thing in Vintage Hills or some place where the people aren't unduly exposed to mountains of chemicals and exhaust already - as we are in Val Vista being next to sewage, Clorox, the freeway.... I'm hoping to move someday soon; but, until I do, I think it's disgraceful the way this city treats this neighborhood. We seem to be the dumping ground for all your dirty projects! Kindest Regards, Paulette Kenyon P14-0852 and PUD -105, JDEDZ- Public Comments Provided for October 11, 2017 Planning Commission Meeting 25