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Community Input Survey Cricket Field Location Options at Ken Mercer Sports Park 179 Just actually get it done. There will never be an option that will please everyone, so make a 6/22/2022 4:44 PM decision and move forward. 180 Thank yo for not taking over any of our school fields or neighborhood parks for this recreational 6/22/2022 3:42 PM field. This is exactly what the sports park is for. 181 why removing a softball field in favor of another sport 6/22/2022 3:17 PM 182 1 think we need more than one cricket bitch. It would be great to see options one and three 6/22/2022 2:30 PM installed. I would truly hate to see cricket pushed to the back of the line due to conflict with other sports needing to use the same space at the same time 183 It's unfortunate for the cricket community to undergo such struggles just to have a field built for 6/21/2022 8:06 PM their sport. Cricket creates community, offers opportunities for teamwork, strengthens social bonding, reduces alienation, offers ethnic and cultural harmony, not to mention physical and mental wellbeing. It's even more unfortunate that city staff do not recognize this or treat the cricket community in the same way they treat other sports groups. Never were there such debacles and roadblocks when lacrosse was the newest sport in town. Today, more than ever, the city needs to offer diverse, equitable, and inclusive programs. Don't just talk about them, BE about them -- a cricket field for all ages should be a priority. 184 Please don't allow a cricket field to be so close to people's homes. Thank you for listening to 6/21/2022 9:18 AM us 185 Cricket fields should not be built in the Ken Mercer sports park at all, in any location within the 6/20/2022 5:26 PM park. This park is surrounded by homes less than 25-50 from all the play fields. In addition, regardless of where the cricket field are built in Pleasanton, there also needs to be an amendment to the City's Municipal Code that would change all of the city's park use: NO team play of any sport (organized, reserved or casual pick up) or classes BEFORE 8 AM EVERY DAY (change from the current code as stated - DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS - which is as early as Gam seasonally). Cricket is a sport that is excessively too loud in play of any age - adults and children. It includes extended clapping, cheering, and shouting with each and every batter up. The sports park is surrounded entirely by homes, homes that back to the park which are less than 25-50 feet from the proposed fields. We've experienced the cricket play and noise every weekend for the past 5 years and have called to ask for help to stop it from occurring before 8am. If you look at the radius of the proposed fields 1-3, the circles of fields proposed would literally be in be in our backyards and in our homes if you moved any of them by 90 degrees, that is the problem, it simply is not an acceptable allowance. Again, Cricket is a game where each bat up includes loud clapping and yelling and cheering (BEFORE 8 am on weekends unlike any other sport ever allow play in this sports park in my 30 years as a resident). Parks or fields that do not have homes surrounding them, or possibly close to the Hopyard skate park, or the fields on Bernal across the Alameda Fair grounds would be locations which would not encumber the neighbors. Another example of a good location are the fields on 1- 580 in Dublin, where there are NO HOMES within 50 FT. I lived happily in my home located at 2526 Skylark for 31 years and we back the sports park and it's only been the last 5 that this has become a nuisance. We love the sports park, but play and practice, organized or not, is being played DURING DAYLIGHT hours which is currently 6 AM (two hours before 8 AM) ...it's just NOT a feasible proposal or acceptable. Cricket fields need to be built far away from homes where babies, elderly and families want peace and quiet before 8 AM every day of the year. Diane Van Wagner 186 What is the current demand for fields? Does it justify the expenditure ? With the current 6/20/2022 10:56 AM promise of a skateboard park and all abilities field and the city projected traffic for those, this might not be a wise choice. 187 Option 1 is the only viable option because it gives both youth and adult cricket. Adult is the 6/19/2022 3:34 PM higher priority at this time anyway. 188 Current cricket teams often start play before 7am. Team play should not start before 8am. Will 6/18/2022 8:21 AM noise regulations in the early morning hours be enforced? 189 Tapeball cricket should be allowed 6/17/2022 11:36 PM 190 Cricket will attract more youth and adult to partake in sport in Pleasanton. Thank you for 6/17/2022 9:11 PM suggesting this. 191 My home backs to left field next to option 3. When the little league kids aren't playing the high 6/17/2022 7:38 PM school kids and adults will play and I get many many baseballs in my backyard. Often time if 36/37