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From: Sauarespace To: Megan Campbell Subject: Form Submission-Provide comments Date: Monday,June 13,2022 11:14:37 AM Sent via form submission from Pleasanton Housing Element Update Name: Joseph Bousaba Email: Comment: My family I live in the Pleasanton Hills community in Pleasanton since 2009. We chose to move to Pleasanton from Fremont for the great community life, clean uncongested neighborhoods, great quality of education, and overall quality of life, that the city has maintained nicely. Regarding the potential rezoning of the PUSD District Office site for residential development I have some feedback and inputs, if I may provide respectfully. While I do agree and respect further expansion to allow more families to enjoy the great quality of life that we have in Pleasanton, I would like to point to few negative implications this will have on many existing families and neighborhoods if not done properly. The Sunol/Bernal intersection is already a very busy one and both streets are main roads feeding into downtown and other parts of Pleasanton and are pretty congested at least during rush hours. So adding a large multi-dwelling unit apartments is going to dramatically increase the traffic and noise level and create a bigger bottleneck than it already is. This would also require some road expansions and more traffic lights, and create noise and more pollution at least for some of the surrounding neighborhoods, in addition to being costly to the city. Currently the property has perfectly good buildings for the school district, a pre-school, and a nice field that is used by many families from the neighboring communities,and removing them will be costly to both the city and the communities, in addition to changing the topography of the area and taking away part of the identity of this part of town. Is this cost adder to the city really necessary and justified? In addition, cramping a large complex in a reasonably populated neighborhood will transform multiple nice communities into a large congested one and will affect the quality of life of so many families living in the neighborhoods around and take away the reasonably calm and pleasant environment and intimate sense of community that makes Pleasanton really special. I urge you to take these inputs into considerations, especially since there are many other options with already open land, some close to downtown, that can achieve the required expansion without impacting specific neighborhoods and families and creating less impact on the traffic bottleneck on Sunol/Bernal intersection and on the overall infrastructure of this side of town. Thank you for the opportunity to provide inputs and I hope that they will be taken into consideration. Does this submission look like spam? Report it here. Click here to report this email as spam.