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2. Semmelmeyer, who has an interest in leasing real estate and has had a number of incidents regarding leasing properties in other cities ( see https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/07/24/former-hercules-city-hall-official- resurfaces-with-litigant/ ) never should have been hired in the first place for this • project. His objective was to maximize retail space in the area. He insisted that Owens Drive and the surrounding location should become surrounded by a mega - retail complex at the BART station. Semmelmeyer, Dolan and company pushed the idea that the retail complex could become a "regional" retail center. 3. I repeatedly brought up the issue of life safety issues regarding the bottleneck of emergency service vehicles attempting to navigate through a narrowed Owens Drive. This narrowing is detrimental to emergency vehicle traffice attempting to get to accident victims on 1-580 and transporting them to the hospital (Valleycare/Stanford). Staff ignored the issue. 4. No one (except for staff and Semmelmeyer) bought the idea that mega-retail was appropriate for this BART facing location along Owens. Instead, the majority of the task force felt that neighborhood-serving retail was sufficient for the area (e.g., dry cleaners, etc) and that retail should be spread throughout the business park rather than centralized along the BART station frontage at Owens. Given that the mega-retail pedestrian complex is not going to happen, Owens Drive needs to be restored and the staff-imposed bottleneck needs to be taken out. • The city can pursue putting an over the road pedestrian passageway like the passageway in Walnut Creek (that I also brought up during the task force). I understand that Dublin is in the process of getting grant money to put a similar over the road pedestrian passageway in their city. Thanks, Anne Fox 2