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ATTACHMENT 3 St. Clare's Episcopal Church 'The Rev. Ronald D. Culmer, Rector -411111111 September 2, 2018 Pleasanton City Council CITY OF PLEASANTON City of Pleasanton P.O. Box 520 Pleasanton, CA 94566 CITY kiANAOFR To Pleasanton City Council, We wanted to contact you in regards to the current use dispute between the Chabad Center, located at 3370 Hopyard Road, and Millers of Bryce Canyon Court, in Pleasanton. While this dispute has been contentious, we are encouraged the two parties appear to have reached a settlement. However,before the City Manager makes a recommendation for the Council to approve, we ask the Planning Commission to consider the existing Parking Lot Use Agreement between St. Clare's Episcopal Church and Chabad, as we believe the proposal, given at the recent Pleasanton City Council meeting, ignored the existing and approved agreement. For over the past year, St. Clare's has been working with Chabad on joint parking lot terms to allow Chabad to receive its initial Conditional Use Permit. The joint agreement was submitted and approved by the city. The proposed agreement between the Chabad and the residents of Bryce Canyon does not take into account this existing agreement and has a direct impact on parking and traffic flow on St. Clare's Church. It is therefore time that we address some issues we see with all the proposals and plans as they were presented at the recent meeting. 1. Our parking lot agreement is for 50 years and includes a plan for an expansion of the parking lot on the west side of Chabad's building,opposite of Hopyard Road. This was presented to the city's Planning Department and approved. Over the past few meetings, there have been alternate plans for the layout of Chabad's expansion, one of those,which you approved, included building a play yard and terrace on that side of the building,the same side the parking lot expansion was to go. This creates a conflict with this existing agreement. 2. The only physical entrance to Chabad's property is through the joint parking lot, an area about 20 feet wide,directly where the proposed playground and terrace are to be built. This then precludes Chabad from having my access to their property for vehicle access. At the August 21 meeting, it was mentioned about a proposed house being built behind the present building. However, there is no easement suggested for that residence,and the plan, as presented,would not provide access. Additionally,the joint use agreement did 3350 3-lopyarc[Road9 Pleasanton CA 94588 9 phone 925.462.4802 stcfare@att.net 9 www.stclarespleasanton.org