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would affect future activities at the Alivso Abode Community Park. The City and District both recognized the concerns. However, it was also understood by the City and District that public access to the 231-acre Castleridge property, which the District acquired just two years earlier in 2014, was also a public amenity desired by many. In response to the concerns, the District assured the City that the primary access to the Castleridge property and Pleasanton Ridge would be the Garms Staging Area as it is identified in the 2012 Land Use Plan for Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, but construction of the Garms Staging Area would not be complete until December 2020. The District believed the Alviso Adobe Park access to be simpler to construct, and therefore capable of providing some of the desired access to the Castleridge property relatively quickly. While the District acknowledged that congestion and parking would be a problem until the Garms Staging Area was constructed, the City and District believed the Garms Staging Area would relieve the congestion and parking issues when completed. The City and District agreed that the management of the congestion and parking while the Garms Staging Area was designed, bid, and constructed was offset by the benefit of providing near-term public access to the Castleridge property, with the understanding it would be limited to the four years required to complete the Garms Staging Area. Candidly, there were many Alviso Adobe Park users and neighbors skeptical of the arrangement. They were concerned that if the District was allowed to construct the access across the Alviso Adobe Park and use parking on Old Foothill Road first, the Garms Staging Area would become a lower priority for the District and construction would be deferred. To alleviate those concerns, the City and the District entered into the MOU so as to clearly define the District's intentions. Unfortunately, despite the commitments of the District within the MOU, the expressed concerns seem to have become reality. I hope the background regarding why the MOU was executed in 2016 is helpful in your understanding of the situation and its importance to the City of Pleasanton. I look forward to a City-District liaison meeting being convened in the near future. Sincerely, Karla Brown Mayor Attachment: 2016 MOU between EBRPD and city of Pleasanton